Gordon Griffith
Actor
Born July 4, 1907 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
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.
Filmography
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
The Jolson Story
Adam Had Four Sons
The Courageous Dr. Christian
Meet Dr. Christian
Exile Express
Renfrew of the Royal Mounted
Jungle Menace
Outlaws of the Range
Grant
Blazing Justice
Max
Gun Play
Henchman Mark
Bars of Hate
Jim Grant
Western Frontier
Henchman Steve
Captured in Chinatown
What Price Crime
Red - a Gangster
Speed Limited
Government Man
The Nevada Buckaroo
The Branded Man
Bruce
The Cat's Pajamas
Little Annie Rooney
Tim Rooney
Main Street
Cy Bogart
Catch My Smoke
Bub Jessup
The Village Blacksmith
Bill as a Child
More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
Troubles
Penrod
Sam Williams
Cameron of the Royal Mounted
The Adventures of Tarzan
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)
A Daughter of the Law
Pete Jepsen
The Kentucky Colonel
Sam Britsides
The Son of Tarzan
Jack
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
The Solitary Sin
Bob Meredith - Age 14
Under the Top
Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)
The Romance of Tarzan
Tarzan as a Boy
Tarzan of the Apes
Young Tarzan
The Little American
Child (uncredited)
The Price of Silence
Jimmie, Dugan's Son
Gloriana
Naked Hearts
Cecil - as a Child
The Code of Marcia Gray
Newsboy (uncredited)
Ben Blair
Ben Blair, as a child
Kilmeny
Pierre - the Boy
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Newsboy (uncredited)
Those Country Kids
The Fatal Mallet
Boy (uncredited)
Caught in a Cabaret
Boy in Park (uncredited)
Twenty Minutes of Love
Boy
The Star Boarder
Landlady's Son (uncredited)
Kid Auto Races at Venice
The Boy (uncredited)
Little Billy's Triumph
Mabel's Dramatic Career
Boy
The Riot
One of the Neighborhood Kids