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
Main Street
Cy Bogart
Ben Blair
Ben Blair, as a child
Speed Limited
Government Man
The Adventures of Tarzan
What Price Crime
Red - a Gangster
Caught in a Cabaret
Boy in Park (uncredited)
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)
Those Country Kids
Twenty Minutes of Love
Boy
His Sister's Kids
2nd Nephew
The Branded Man
Bruce
Penrod
Sam Williams
Gun Play
Henchman Mark
The Romance of Tarzan
Tarzan as a Boy
Catch My Smoke
Bub Jessup
The Son of Tarzan
Jack
Kid Auto Races at Venice
The Boy (uncredited)
Outlaws of the Range
Grant
Tarzan of the Apes
Young Tarzan
The Little American
Child (uncredited)
The Broken Doll
Gordon
Little Annie Rooney
Tim Rooney
A Rural Romance
Gordon
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Newsboy (uncredited)
Naked Hearts
Cecil - as a Child
The Kentucky Colonel
Sam Britsides
The Fatal Mallet
Boy (uncredited)
Western Frontier
Henchman Steve
Kilmeny
Pierre - the Boy
The Village Blacksmith
Bill as a Child
Under the Top
Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)
Gloriana
A Bath House Beauty
Fatty's Son
A Wild Ride
Desmond
The Riot
One of the Neighborhood Kids
Blazing Justice
Max
The Chicken Chaser
The Star Boarder
Landlady's Son (uncredited)
The Solitary Sin
Bob Meredith - Age 14
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
More to Be Pitied Than Scorned
Troubles
Little Billy's Triumph
The Cat's Pajamas
Mabel's Dramatic Career
Boy
A Daughter of the Law
Pete Jepsen
Cameron of the Royal Mounted
Bars of Hate
Jim Grant
A Race for Life
The Villain
The Price of Silence
Jimmie, Dugan's Son