Gordon Griffith
Birthday: 1907-07-04
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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]
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Kilmeny
Little Doris Calhoun, of a wealthy English family, makes a playmate of Pierre, a crippled gypsy boy,...
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Under the Top
Jimmie, a small-town boy, visits a traveling circus passing through town. he falls in love with Pans...
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Caught in a Cabaret
Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a...
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The Village Blacksmith
(survived only 10 minutes) As young men, the squire (Marshall) and the village blacksmith (Walling)...
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Those Country Kids
Although Mabel’s parents disapprove of Roscoe and Mabel’s relationship, the two still secretly court...
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The Star Boarder
A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mo...
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Twenty Minutes of Love
Charlie is hanging around in the park, finding problems with a jealous suitor, a man who thinks that...
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The Romance of Tarzan
Tarzan and Jane are to sail for England. They are attacked by natives and Tarzan is believed to have...
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The Branded Man
Fred Colgate, wealthy young man, learns that his tramp wife has been unfaithful and leaves her, and ...
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Blazing Justice
A cowboy captures two rustlers and collects a $5000 reward. Using the money to take a vacation, he w...
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Outlaws of the Range
When Steve Harper chases down some rustlers, he loses his gun in the ensuing fistfight. After Wilson...
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The Son of Tarzan
Tarzan's son Jack is kidnapped from England by his old enemy Paulovich. Jack escapes into the Africa...
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Bars of Hate
Ted Clark rescues pickpoket Danny from a mob, and restores Danny's loot, a pocketbook, to its owner ...
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The Adventures of Tarzan
Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and C...
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Gun Play
A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a tre...
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The Solitary Sin
Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different e...
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The Riot
When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jew...
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Mabel's Dramatic Career
A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, an...
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His Sister's Kids
His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee....
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The Chicken Chaser
The Chicken Chaser is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery....
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A Bath House Beauty
Roscoe is a family man at the seaside, lumbered with a shrewish wife and an extremely annoying young...
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Western Frontier
Ken and his sister are separated while young when the Indians attack their wagon train. Ken, now gro...
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The Fatal Mallet
Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty....
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large ban...
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Speed Limited
A wealthy blonde gal in Las Vegas gets mixed up with a lady gangster and the G-man that is chasing t...
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Huckleberry Finn
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his ...
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Little Billy's Triumph
Little Billy wants to buy some ice cream with the dime his mother gave him, but the neighborhood bul...
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What Price Crime
Thieves break into a warehouse that stores guns, steal them and kill the night watchman. An undercov...
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Little Annie Rooney
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city...
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The Little American
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home i...
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the...
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Ben Blair
After the death of his mother, young Ben Blair finds a safe home on John Rankin’s ranch. But when Ra...
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Penrod
Young rapscallion Penrod Schofield causes a good deal of trouble in his community, all in the name o...
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Kid Auto Races at Venice
The Tramp interferes with the celebration of several kid auto races in Venice, California (Junior Va...
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Tarzan of the Apes
A female ape takes to mothering the orphaned boy (Tarzan) and raises him over the course of many yea...
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A Daughter of the Law
A city girl revenuer spies on illegal whiskey making in the hills....
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Gloriana
A newly adopted girl is doted on by her adopted father but faces indifference from her adopted mothe...
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Naked Hearts
Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Ma...
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The Cat's Pajamas
Sally, seamstress for a fashionable modiste, supports a disabled father and adores her kitten, Tommy...
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Cameron of the Royal Mounted
A young Scottish immigrant to Canada becomes a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police....
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Catch My Smoke
When Bob Stratton returns from war in France, he soon discovers his ranch in the hands of a pretty g...
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Main Street
The arrival of pretty Carol Milford in the staid Midwestern town of Gopher Prairie really shakes up ...
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The Price of Silence
U. S. Senator Frank Deering has spent his life trying to alleviate the misery of child labor. Judge ...
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More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
An actor, Julian Lorraine (J. Frank Glendon), mistakenly believes his wife Viola Lorraine (Alice Lak...
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The Kentucky Colonel
Young Southerners Buck Hineman and Remington Osbury both are in love with the same woman, who promis...
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