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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1907-07-04 (117 years old)

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gordon Griffith

Biography:

Gordon Griffith (July 4, 1907 – October 12, 1958) was an American assistant director, film producer, and one of the first child actors in the American movie industry. Griffith worked in the film industry for five decades, acting in over 60 films, and surviving the transition from silent films to talkies. During his acting career, he worked with Charlie Chaplin, and was the first actor to portray Tarzan on film.

Griffith died of a heart attack in Hollywood at the age of 51.

[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Known For

Acting

1936

1935

Bars of Hate as Jim Grant
Gun Play as Henchman Mark
Western Frontier as Henchman Steve
Speed Limited as Government Man
What Price Crime as Red - a Gangster

1928

1926

1925

Little Annie Rooney as Tim Rooney

1923

Main Street as Cy Bogart

1922

The Village Blacksmith as Bill as a Child
Penrod as Sam Williams
Catch My Smoke as Bub Jessup

1921

Little Lord Fauntleroy as Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)
A Daughter of the Law as Pete Jepsen

1920

Huckleberry Finn as Tom Sawyer

1919

Under the Top as Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)
The Solitary Sin as Bob Meredith - Age 14

1918

The Romance of Tarzan as Tarzan as a Boy
Tarzan of the Apes as Young Tarzan

1917

The Little American as Child (uncredited)

1916

Ben Blair as Ben Blair, as a child
Naked Hearts as Cecil - as a Child

1915

Kilmeny as Pierre - the Boy

1914

Caught in a Cabaret as Boy in Park (uncredited)
The Star Boarder as Landlady's Son (uncredited)
A Bath House Beauty as Fatty's Son
The Fatal Mallet as Boy (uncredited)
Tillie's Punctured Romance as Newsboy (uncredited)
Kid Auto Races at Venice as The Boy (uncredited)

1913

The Riot as One of the Neighborhood Kids
His Sister's Kids as 2nd Nephew

Production

1946

The Jolson Story as Associate Producer

1941

Adam Had Four Sons as Associate Producer

1939

Exile Express as Production Manager

Writing

1937

Jungle Menace as Screenplay

Directing

1940

The Courageous Dr. Christian as Assistant Director

1939

Meet Dr. Christian as Assistant Director

1935

Captured in Chinatown as Assistant Director

1931

The Nevada Buckaroo as Assistant Director