Gordon S. Griffith 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, and was the first actor to portray Tarzan on film.
As Tarzan in 1918
Gordon Griffith (bottom) and Florence Morrison (top) in a detail from a still for Penrod (1922).
As Tom Sawyer in Huckleberry Finn (1920), with Lewis Sargent as Huck
Katherine Kiernan Griffith, also seen as Catherine Kiernan, was an American character actress on stage and in silent films.
Katherine Griffith, from a 1916 publication
Katherine Griffith and Mary Pickford in Pollyanna (1920)