Gordon Griffith
Actor
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]
Filmography
Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Newsboy (uncredited) 1914
Twenty Minutes of Love
as Boy 1914
Caught in a Cabaret
as Boy in Park (uncredited) 1914
The Star Boarder
as Landlady's Son (uncredited) 1914
The Fatal Mallet
as Boy (uncredited) 1914
Tarzan of the Apes
as Young Tarzan 1918
Little Annie Rooney
as Tim Rooney 1925
The Little American
as Child (uncredited) 1917
Little Lord Fauntleroy
as Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited) 1921
Those Country Kids
1914
Mabel's Dramatic Career
as Boy 1913
The Adventures of Tarzan
1921
The Son of Tarzan
as Jack 1920
The Village Blacksmith
as Bill as a Child 1922
What Price Crime
as Red - a Gangster 1935
A Daughter of the Law
as Pete Jepsen 1921