Gordon Griffith
Acting • Born 1907-07-04 – Died 1958-10-12
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]
Filmography
49 credits
Kilmeny
Movie • 1915
Pierre - the Boy
Under the Top
Movie • 1919
Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)
Caught in a Cabaret
Movie • 1914
Boy in Park (uncredited)
The Village Blacksmith
Movie • 1922
Bill as a Child
Those Country Kids
Movie • 1914
The Star Boarder
Movie • 1914
Landlady's Son (uncredited)
Twenty Minutes of Love
Movie • 1914
Boy
The Romance of Tarzan
Movie • 1918
Tarzan as a Boy
The Branded Man
Movie • 1928
Bruce
Blazing Justice
Movie • 1936
Max
Outlaws of the Range
Movie • 1936
Grant
The Son of Tarzan
Movie • 1920
Jack
Bars of Hate
Movie • 1935
Jim Grant
The Adventures of Tarzan
Movie • 1921
Gun Play
Movie • 1935
Henchman Mark
The Solitary Sin
Movie • 1919
Bob Meredith - Age 14
The Riot
Movie • 1913
One of the Neighborhood Kids
Mabel's Dramatic Career
Movie • 1913
Boy
His Sister's Kids
Movie • 1913
2nd Nephew
The Chicken Chaser
Movie • 1914
A Bath House Beauty
Movie • 1914
Fatty's Son
Western Frontier
Movie • 1935
Henchman Steve
The Fatal Mallet
Movie • 1914
Boy (uncredited)
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Movie • 1914
Newsboy (uncredited)
Speed Limited
Movie • 1935
Government Man
Huckleberry Finn
Movie • 1920
Tom Sawyer
Little Billy's Triumph
Movie • 1914
What Price Crime
Movie • 1935
Red - a Gangster
Little Annie Rooney
Movie • 1925
Tim Rooney
The Little American
Movie • 1917
Child (uncredited)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Movie • 1921
Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)
Ben Blair
Movie • 1916
Ben Blair, as a child
Penrod
Movie • 1922
Sam Williams
Kid Auto Races at Venice
Movie • 1914
The Boy (uncredited)
Tarzan of the Apes
Movie • 1918
Young Tarzan
A Daughter of the Law
Movie • 1921
Pete Jepsen
Gloriana
Movie • 1916
Naked Hearts
Movie • 1916
Cecil - as a Child
The Cat's Pajamas
Movie • 1926
Cameron of the Royal Mounted
Movie • 1921
Catch My Smoke
Movie • 1922
Bub Jessup
Main Street
Movie • 1923
Cy Bogart
The Price of Silence
Movie • 1917
Jimmie, Dugan's Son
The Broken Doll
Movie • 1914
Gordon
A Rural Romance
Movie • 1914
Gordon
A Race for Life
Movie • 1914
The Villain
A Wild Ride
Movie • 1914
Desmond
More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
Movie • 1922
Troubles
The Kentucky Colonel
Movie • 1920
Sam Britsides