Gordon Griffith
Acting
🎂 1907-07-04
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]
Cast credits(43)
Young Tarzan
1918
Tom Sawyer
1920
Boy in Park (uncredited)
1914
Tim Rooney
1925
Newsboy (uncredited)
1914
Cy Bogart
1923
Bob Meredith - Age 14
1919
Max
1936
Landlady's Son (uncredited)
1914
The Boy (uncredited)
1914
1921
Boy
1913
Pete Jepsen
1921
Child (uncredited)
1917
Bill as a Child
1922
Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)
1919
Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)
1921
One of the Neighborhood Kids
1913
Jack
1920
1921
Henchman Steve
1935
Jim Grant
1935
Tarzan as a Boy
1918
1914
Boy
1914
Henchman Mark
1935
Cecil - as a Child
1916
1926
Grant
1936
Boy (uncredited)
1914
Pierre - the Boy
1915
2nd Nephew
1913
Red - a Gangster
1935
Fatty's Son
1914
Ben Blair, as a child
1916
Jimmie, Dugan's Son
1917
Sam Williams
1922
Government Man
1935
Bub Jessup
1922
1914
Bruce
1928
1916
1914
