Gordon Griffith
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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6583 |
| Birthday | 1907-07-04 |
| Place of Birth | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Also Known As | Gordon S. Griffith, |
1915
Kilmeny
0/0
Little Doris Calhoun, of a wealthy English family, makes a playmate of Pierre, a crippled gypsy boy, and drifts away with him and the gypsy band on th...
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Kilmeny
1919
Under the Top
10/1
Jimmie, a small-town boy, visits a traveling circus passing through town. he falls in love with Pansy, the daughter of the circus' tightrope walker, a...
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Under the Top
1914
Caught in a Cabaret
5.7/58
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her...
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Caught in a Cabaret
1922
The Village Blacksmith
5.333/4
(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling) are in love with the same woman (Boardman), whom...
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The Village Blacksmith
1914
Those Country Kids
4.1/9
Although Mabel’s parents disapprove of Roscoe and Mabel’s relationship, the two still secretly court. When a rivaling suitor named Reddy appears, the...
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Those Country Kids
1914
The Star Boarder
5.156/48
A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.
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The Star Boarder
1914
Twenty Minutes of Love
5.6/65
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that Charlie has robbed him a watch, a policeman and e...
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Twenty Minutes of Love
1918
The Romance of Tarzan
6/2
Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have been killed. The Greystoke relatives return to En...
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The Romance of Tarzan
1928
The Branded Man
4/3
Fred Colgate, wealthy young man, learns that his tramp wife has been unfaithful and leaves her, and goes to Mexico. An accident causes him to be thoug...
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The Branded Man
1936
Blazing Justice
6.5/2
A cowboy captures two rustlers and collects a $5000 reward. Using the money to take a vacation, he winds up getting accused of a murder he didn't comm...
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Blazing Justice
1936
Outlaws of the Range
6.5/2
When Steve Harper chases down some rustlers, he loses his gun in the ensuing fistfight. After Wilson is killed, Steve's gun is found nearby and he as...
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Outlaws of the Range
1920
The Son of Tarzan
5.8/5
Tarzan's son Jack is kidnapped from England by his old enemy Paulovich. Jack escapes into the African jungle where he meets Meriem, a European girl he...
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The Son of Tarzan
1935
Bars of Hate
7/2
Ted Clark rescues pickpoket Danny from a mob, and restores Danny's loot, a pocketbook, to its owner Ann Dawson. She is carrying a letter that proves h...
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Bars of Hate
1921
The Adventures of Tarzan
6.583/6
Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from re...
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The Adventures of Tarzan
1935
Gun Play
6/2
A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land.
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Gun Play
1919
The Solitary Sin
8/1
Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex. Bob's father patiently explai...
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The Solitary Sin
1913
The Riot
0/0
When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soo...
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The Riot
1913
Mabel's Dramatic Career
5.5/8
A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman who...
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Mabel's Dramatic Career
1913
His Sister's Kids
10/1
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His Sister's Kids
1914
The Chicken Chaser
0/0
The Chicken Chaser is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.
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The Chicken Chaser
1914
A Bath House Beauty
9/1
Roscoe is a family man at the seaside, lumbered with a shrewish wife and an extremely annoying young son. He meets up with a charming young lady in a...
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A Bath House Beauty
1935
Western Frontier
9/1
Ken and his sister are separated while young when the Indians attack their wagon train. Ken, now grown, is sent after the outlaw known as the Golden h...
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Western Frontier
1914
The Fatal Mallet
5.404/47
Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.
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The Fatal Mallet
1914
Tillie's Punctured Romance
6.2/83
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope w...
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
1935
Speed Limited
8/1
A wealthy blonde gal in Las Vegas gets mixed up with a lady gangster and the G-man that is chasing the gangster.
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Speed Limited
1920
Huckleberry Finn
6.833/3
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by...
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Huckleberry Finn
1914
Little Billy's Triumph
6/2
Little Billy wants to buy some ice cream with the dime his mother gave him, but the neighborhood bullies have other plans for that dime. Preserved by...
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Little Billy's Triumph
1935
What Price Crime
4/4
Thieves break into a warehouse that stores guns, steal them and kill the night watchman. An undercover agent assigned to the case happens to get into...
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What Price Crime
1925
Little Annie Rooney
7.071/21
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.
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Little Annie Rooney
1917
The Little American
6.3/20
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality fir...
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The Little American
1921
Little Lord Fauntleroy
7.028/18
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trus...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
1916
Ben Blair
0/0
After the death of his mother, young Ben Blair finds a safe home on John Rankin’s ranch. But when Rankin is murdered, the older Ben sets out to seek v...
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Ben Blair
1922
Penrod
10/1
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name of protecting kids from too-strict parents and nast...
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Penrod
1914
Kid Auto Races at Venice
5.538/158
The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Vanderbilt Cup Race, January 10 and 11, 1914), stand...
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Kid Auto Races at Venice
1918
Tarzan of the Apes
5.3/23
A female ape takes to mothering the orphaned boy (Tarzan) and raises him over the course of many years until a rescue mission is finally launched and...
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Tarzan of the Apes
1921
A Daughter of the Law
7.5/4
A city girl revenuer spies on illegal whiskey making in the hills.
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A Daughter of the Law
1916
Gloriana
0/0
A newly adopted girl is doted on by her adopted father but faces indifference from her adopted mother.
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Gloriana
1916
Naked Hearts
0/0
Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Maud's domineering brother, disapproves of a marriag...
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Naked Hearts
1926
The Cat's Pajamas
9/1
Sally, seamstress for a fashionable modiste, supports a disabled father and adores her kitten, Tommy. Though loved by Jack a taxi driver, she is infat...
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The Cat's Pajamas
1921
Cameron of the Royal Mounted
9/1
A young Scottish immigrant to Canada becomes a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
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Cameron of the Royal Mounted
1922
Catch My Smoke
7/1
When Bob Stratton returns from war in France, he soon discovers his ranch in the hands of a pretty girl, Mary Thorne, who explains that upon her fathe...
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Catch My Smoke
1923
Main Street
6/3
The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up the locals.
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Main Street
1917
The Price of Silence
0/0
U. S. Senator Frank Deering has spent his life trying to alleviate the misery of child labor. Judge Vernon, his closest friend, aids him in this strug...
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The Price of Silence
1914
The Broken Doll
9/1
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The Broken Doll
1914
A Rural Romance
7/1
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A Rural Romance
1914
A Race for Life
10/1
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A Race for Life
1914
A Wild Ride
7/1
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A Wild Ride
1922
More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
9/1
An actor, Julian Lorraine (J. Frank Glendon), mistakenly believes his wife Viola Lorraine (Alice Lake) has been unfaithful. Complications and tears an...
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More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
1920
The Kentucky Colonel
8/1
Young Southerners Buck Hineman and Remington Osbury both are in love with the same woman, who promises to marry the one who returns when the Civil War...
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The Kentucky Colonel
1924
The Street of Tears
8/1
1924 American silent drama film directed by Travers Vale.
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The Street of Tears
1916
The Code of Marcia Gray
0/0
Early film by Frank Lloyd
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