
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]

Penrod
1922 · as Sam Williams

Those Country Kids
1914

Tarzan of the Apes
1918 · as Young Tarzan

Caught in a Cabaret
1914 · as Boy in Park (uncredited)

Naked Hearts
1916 · as Cecil - as a Child

Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914 · as Newsboy (uncredited)

The Fatal Mallet
1914 · as Boy (uncredited)

The Little American
1917 · as Child (uncredited)

Little Lord Fauntleroy
1921 · as Boy Stealing Grapes (uncredited)

Little Annie Rooney
1925 · as Tim Rooney

Gun Play
1935 · as Henchman Mark

Twenty Minutes of Love
1914 · as Boy

The Romance of Tarzan
1918 · as Tarzan as a Boy

The Adventures of Tarzan
1921

A Bath House Beauty
1914 · as Fatty's Son

His Sister's Kids
1913 · as 2nd Nephew

Kid Auto Races at Venice
1914 · as The Boy (uncredited)

Under the Top
1919 · as Jimmie Jones (prologue and epilogue)