Huntley Gordon
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Huntley Ashworth Gordon (October 8, 1879 – December 7, 1956) was a Canadian actor who began his career in the Silent Film era. Gordon was born in Montreal, Quebec educated in both Canada and England. He had various jobs including working in a bank, in a silver mine, contracting, as a commercial traveller, and being a cigarette factory owner before settling on the stage and at one time acted with Ethel Barrymore. He began his screen career in 1916 when given a chance by Thomas Ince. Gordon was once a model for Arrow Collars; he was once painted by American commercial illustrator J. C. Leyendecker.
He served in the Canadian Army during World War I and began a career in motion pictures in England where he had been stationed during the war. With his suave manner and classic good looks he was sought out in Hollywood, California where he acted in both silent and talking films.
In Hollywood, he appeared in numerous films including starring opposite Gloria Swanson in the 1923 film Bluebeard's 8th Wife. That same year he starred in The Wanters with Norma Shearer and Marie Prevost.
For most of his career, Gordon traveled between America and Britain, making films in both countries, appearing in more than 120 films. He was with MGM studios when he retired from film in 1940 and invested in the manufacture of silk stockings, a lucrative business at a time when Canadian and British women could not get them due to the rationing brought on by the Second World War. Although he no longer made motion pictures, Huntley Gordon remained active in the world of network radio.
Huntley Gordon died in Van Nuys, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Known for
Phantom of Chinatown
Dr. Norman Wilkes
Stage Door
Cast of Stage Play
Page Miss Glory
Radio Official (uncredited)
Professor Beware
Capell - Producer
Murder by Television
Dr. Henry M. Scofield
Afraid to Talk
Governor
Lady with Red Hair
Actor Playing John (uncredited)
Only Yesterday
Investor (Uncredited)
Klondike Annie
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
Mr. Davidson
Daniel Boone
Sir John Randolph
Lady Scarface
James A. Pierce
Night World
Jim
Gangster's Boy
Principal
Broadway to Cheyenne
Brent
Corruption
District Attorney Blake
The King Murder
Arthur B. Bronnell
Yours for the Asking
Clark Bering (uncredited)
Their Big Moment
John Farrington
Our Dancing Daughters
Diana's Father
Idol of the Crowds
Harvey Castle
The Wanters
Theodore Van Pelt
The Spanish Cape Mystery
David Kummer
The All-American
Harcourt
Portia on Trial
Dr. Thorndike
Bombay Mail
Burgess
The Golden Web
Roland Deane
The Marriage Playground
Cliff Wheater
She Had to Choose
Attorney
The Social Code
Judge Evans Grant
Circumstantial Evidence
The Governor (as Huntly Gordon)
The Golden Cocoon
Gregory Cochran
The Girl from Nowhere
Herbert Whitman
The Enemy Sex
Judge Massingale
China Passage
Arthur Trent
The Famous Mrs. Fair
Jeffrey Fair
The World Gone Mad
Osborne
Never the Twain Shall Meet
Mark Mellenger
Sensation Seekers
Ray Sturgis
Red Haired Alibi
Capt. Kent
Tropical Love
Clifford Fayne
My Wife and I
Mr. James Borden
Midnight Warning
Mr. Gordon
Reckless Youth
Harrison Thomby
Sally of the Subway
Stanley M. Gordon
The Conflict
A Certain Young Man
Mr. Hammond
Anybody's Woman
Grant Crosby
Out Yonder
Edward Elmer
Pleasure Mad
Hugh Benton
Outcast
Hugh
Enchantment
Fairy Tale King
So This Is Marriage?
Men
Tom Courtney
Racetrack
Attorney
My Lady o' the Pines
Penn Thornton
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick'
Huntley - the Husband (uncredited)
Embarrassing Moments
Runyon
Secrets
William Carlton
Dancing Man
Mason
Wine
John Warriner
One Increasing Purpose
Andrew Paris
True As Steel
Frank Parry
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
John Brandon
The Common Cause
Edward Wadsworth
Atonement
Vincent Carlton
Society Snobs
Duane Thornton
New Movietone Follies of 1930
Marvin Kingsley
The Truthful Sex
The Glorious Lady
Lord Chettington
Red Foam
Arnold Driscoll
Shadows of Paris
Raoul Grammont - Minister of the Interior
Scandal
Burke Innes
Managed Money
Police Officer
Merrily Yours
Police Officer
Married Flirts
Pendleton Wayne
Melody Lane
Rinaldi
Her Fatal Millions
Fred Garrison
Don't Tell the Wife
Jacques Cartier
The Unknown Quantity
Dan Kinsolving
Sailor Be Good
Mr. Whitney
Our Mrs. McChesney
T.A. Buck Jr
Speed Madness
Harrington
When the Desert Calls
Dr. Thorpe
Brother of the Bear
Vincent Harris
Chastity
Darcy Roche
Silken Shackles
Other Women's Husbands
Jack Harding
Name the Woman
Marshall
The Destroyers
Peter God
The Gilded Butterfly
John Converse
Beyond the Rainbow
Major Bruce Forbes
The Dark Mirror
Dr. Philip Fosdick
Man Wanted
Charlie Harris
The Frisky Mrs. Johnson
Sir Lionel Heathcote
The Great Divide
Philip Jordan
The Million Dollar Dollies
The Invisible Bond
Harleth Crossey
Out of the Snows
Sgt. Graham