Gordon Griffith

Gordon Griffith
Griffith as Tom Sawyer in Huckleberry Finn (1920)
Born
Gordon S. Griffith

(1907-07-04)July 4, 1907
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedOctober 12, 1958(1958-10-12) (aged 51)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationsActor, assistant director, film producer
Years active1913-1936 (as actor)
ParentKatherine Griffith

Gordon S. 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—films with sound. During his acting career, he worked with Charlie Chaplin,Fatty Arbuckle, Mary Pickford, Mabel Normand, Bessie Love, Betty Bronson, his mother Katherine Griffith and was the first actor to portray young Tarzan on film.