Huntley Gordon
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1887-10-08
Day of Death
1956-12-07 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Huntley Gordon
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Huntley Ashworth Gordon (October 8, 1879 – December 7, 1956) was a Canadian actor who began his career in the Silent Film era. Gordon was born in Montreal, Quebec educated in both Canada and England. He had various jobs including working in a bank, in a silver mine, contracting, as a commercial traveller, and being a cigarette factory owner before settling on the stage and at one time acted with Ethel Barrymore. He began his screen career in 1916 when given a chance by Thomas Ince. Gordon was once a model for Arrow Collars; he was once painted by American commercial illustrator J. C. Leyendecker.
He served in the Canadian Army during World War I and began a career in motion pictures in England where he had been stationed during the war. With his suave manner and classic good looks he was sought out in Hollywood, California where he acted in both silent and talking films.
In Hollywood, he appeared in numerous films including starring opposite Gloria Swanson in the 1923 film Bluebeard's 8th Wife. That same year he starred in The Wanters with Norma Shearer and Marie Prevost.
For most of his career, Gordon traveled between America and Britain, making films in both countries, appearing in more than 120 films. He was with MGM studios when he retired from film in 1940 and invested in the manufacture of silk stockings, a lucrative business at a time when Canadian and British women could not get them due to the rationing brought on by the Second World War. Although he no longer made motion pictures, Huntley Gordon remained active in the world of network radio.
Huntley Gordon died in Van Nuys, California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Known For
Acting
(1941)
Lady Scarface
as James A. Pierce
(1940)
Phantom of Chinatown
as Dr. Norman Wilkes
(1940)
Lady with Red Hair
as Actor Playing John (uncredited)
(1939)
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
as Mr. Davidson
(1938)
Gangster's Boy
as Principal
(1938)
Professor Beware
as Capell - Producer
(1937)
Stage Door
as Cast of Stage Play
(1937)
China Passage
as Arthur Trent
(1937)
Portia on Trial
as Dr. Thorndike
(1937)
Idol of the Crowds
as Harvey Castle
(1936)
(1936)
Daniel Boone
as Sir John Randolph
(1936)
Yours for the Asking
as Clark Bering (uncredited)
(1935)
Circumstantial Evidence
as The Governor (as Huntly Gordon)
(1935)
Murder by Television
as Dr. Henry M. Scofield
(1935)
Page Miss Glory
as Radio Official (uncredited)
(1935)
The Spanish Cape Mystery
as David Kummer
(1934)
Their Big Moment
as John Farrington
(1934)
She Had to Choose
as Attorney
(1934)
Bombay Mail
as Burgess
(1934)
Embarrassing Moments
as Runyon
(1934)
Managed Money
as Police Officer
(1934)
Dancing Man
as Mason
(1933)
Only Yesterday
as Investor (Uncredited)
(1933)
Secrets
as William Carlton
(1933)
Racetrack
as Attorney
(1933)
Corruption
as District Attorney Blake
(1933)
The World Gone Mad
as Osborne
(1933)
Sailor Be Good
as Mr. Whitney
(1933)
Merrily Yours
as Police Officer
(1932)
Afraid to Talk
as Governor
(1932)
Night World
as Jim
(1932)
Speed Madness
as Harrington
(1932)
Midnight Warning
as Mr. Gordon
(1932)
Red Haired Alibi
as Capt. Kent
(1932)
Sally of the Subway
as Stanley M. Gordon
(1932)
The King Murder
as Arthur B. Bronnell
(1932)
Broadway to Cheyenne
as Brent
(1932)
The All-American
as Harcourt
(1931)
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick'
as Huntley - the Husband (uncredited)
(1930)
Anybody's Woman
as Grant Crosby
(1930)
New Movietone Follies of 1930
as Marvin Kingsley
(1929)
Melody Lane
as Rinaldi
(1929)
Scandal
as Burke Innes
(1929)
The Marriage Playground
as Cliff Wheater
(1928)
Our Dancing Daughters
as Diana's Father
(1928)
Outcast
as Hugh
(1928)
A Certain Young Man
as Mr. Hammond
(1928)
Name the Woman
as Marshall
(1927)
Sensation Seekers
as Ray Sturgis
(1927)
One Increasing Purpose
as Andrew Paris
(1927)
Don't Tell the Wife
as Jacques Cartier
(1926)
(1926)
The Gilded Butterfly
as John Converse
(1926)
The Golden Web
as Roland Deane
(1926)
Other Women's Husbands
as Jack Harding
(1926)
(1925)
My Wife and I
as Mr. James Borden
(1925)
The Great Divide
as Philip Jordan
(1925)
Never the Twain Shall Meet
as Mark Mellenger
(1925)
The Golden Cocoon
as Gregory Cochran
(1924)
Wine
as John Warriner
(1924)
Married Flirts
as Pendleton Wayne
(1924)
The Enemy Sex
as Judge Massingale
(1924)
True As Steel
as Frank Parry
(1924)
(1924)
Shadows of Paris
as Raoul Grammont - Minister of the Interior
(1923)
The Wanters
as Theodore Van Pelt
(1923)
Pleasure Mad
as Hugh Benton
(1923)
Her Fatal Millions
as Fred Garrison
(1923)
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
as John Brandon
(1923)
The Famous Mrs. Fair
as Jeffrey Fair
(1923)
Chastity
as Darcy Roche
(1923)
The Social Code
as Judge Evans Grant
(1922)
Reckless Youth
as Harrison Thomby
(1922)
Beyond the Rainbow
as Major Bruce Forbes
(1922)
When the Desert Calls
as Dr. Thorpe
(1922)
Man Wanted
as Charlie Harris
(1921)
Enchantment
as Fairy Tale King
(1921)
The Girl from Nowhere
as Herbert Whitman
(1921)
My Lady o' the Pines
as Penn Thornton
(1921)
Society Snobs
as Duane Thornton
(1921)
Tropical Love
as Clifford Fayne
(1921)
Brother of the Bear
as Vincent Harris
(1920)
Out of the Snows
as Sgt. Graham
(1920)
The Frisky Mrs. Johnson
as Sir Lionel Heathcote
(1920)
The Dark Mirror
as Dr. Philip Fosdick
(1920)
Red Foam
as Arnold Driscoll
(1919)
The Common Cause
as Edward Wadsworth
(1919)
The Glorious Lady
as Lord Chettington
(1919)
Out Yonder
as Edward Elmer
(1919)
Atonement
as Vincent Carlton
(1919)
The Unknown Quantity
as Dan Kinsolving
(1919)
The Invisible Bond
as Harleth Crossey
(1918)
(1918)
Our Mrs. McChesney
as T.A. Buck Jr
(1918)
Men
as Tom Courtney
(1916)
The Destroyers
as Peter God
(1916)