Portrait of Gordon Griffith

Gordon Griffith

Acting

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]

Born: July 4, 1907

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Filmography

1936
1935
Gun Play

as Henchman Mark

1935
Bars of Hate

as Jim Grant

1935
Western Frontier

as Henchman Steve

1935
What Price Crime

as Red - a Gangster

1935
Speed Limited

as Government Man

1928
1925
Little Annie Rooney

as Tim Rooney

1923
Main Street

as Cy Bogart

1922
Catch My Smoke

as Bub Jessup

1922
The Village Blacksmith

as Bill as a Child

1922
Penrod

as Sam Williams

1921
Little Lord Fauntleroy

as Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)

1921
A Daughter of the Law

as Pete Jepsen

1920
The Kentucky Colonel

as Sam Britsides

1920
Huckleberry Finn

as Tom Sawyer

1919
The Solitary Sin

as Bob Meredith - Age 14

1919
Under the Top

as Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)

1918
The Romance of Tarzan

as Tarzan as a Boy

1918
Tarzan of the Apes

as Young Tarzan

1917
The Little American

as Child (uncredited)

1917
The Price of Silence

as Jimmie, Dugan's Son

1916
Naked Hearts

as Cecil - as a Child

1916
Ben Blair

as Ben Blair, as a child

1915
Kilmeny

as Pierre - the Boy

1914
Tillie's Punctured Romance

as Newsboy (uncredited)

1914
The Fatal Mallet

as Boy (uncredited)

1914
Caught in a Cabaret

as Boy in Park (uncredited)

1914
The Star Boarder

as Landlady's Son (uncredited)

1914
Kid Auto Races at Venice

as The Boy (uncredited)

1913
The Riot

as One of the Neighborhood Kids