Huntley Gordon
Date of birth: 1887-10-08
Place of birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Huntly Gordon, C. Huntley Gordon, Huntley Ashworth 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.
Movie Credits
Phantom of Chinatown
1940-11-18
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Bent
Never the Twain Shall Meet
1925-09-13
Exemplifying Kipling's adage, a white man falls to pieces when he is in the South Seas.
The Golden Web
1926-09-01
After it has been sold to a new owner,a shyster and killer has stolen the property deed to a valuabl
One Increasing Purpose
1927-01-02
Stars Edmund Lowe as WWI veteran Slim Paris. Though most of his comrades died in battle, Paris retur
Our Mrs. McChesney
1918-09-09
Mrs. Emma McChesney is a determined and successful traveling saleswoman for T. A. Buck's Featherbloo
Out of the Snows
1920-08-23
Robert Holliday, a member of the North West Mounted Police, is betrothed to Ruth Hardy, an orphaned
Murder by Television
1935-10-01
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent an
Our Dancing Daughters
1928-09-01
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie f
Brother of the Bear
1921-02-18
A bad-tempered lumber mill foreman is in love with the mill owner's daughter. But the owner would ra
My Lady o' the Pines
1921-09-11
Norah Collison is a young woman who owns a huge timberland in Maine, full of white pines. As she arr
Gangster's Boy
1938-11-16
A popular high school valedictorian and star athlete becomes a pariah when it's discovered that his
Don't Tell the Wife
1927-01-22
The Carters, a nouveau riche couple from Peoria, Illinois, decide to take a trip to Europe in the co
Name the Woman
1928-05-25
Directed by Erle C. Kenton. With Anita Stewart, Huntley Gordon, Gaston Glass, Chappell Dossett.
Pleasure Mad
1923-11-05
The Wanters
1923-11-26
Elliot Worthington falls in love with Myra, the maid in his sister's household. Myra is dismissed; E
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932-09-09
A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935-10-09
Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
1939-08-01
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poi
Society Snobs
1921-02-20
Lorenzo Carilo selects more-or-less menial jobs at which to make a living, other more "select" jobs
The World Gone Mad
1933-04-15
A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fr
Midnight Warning
1932-11-15
Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air."
The Marriage Playground
1929-12-12
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorce
Tropical Love
1921-10-23
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, The Drifter, young and educated, and The Seeker, old and feeble-minded, me
Daniel Boone
1936-10-16
In 1775, Daniel Boone settles Kentucky, despite menacing Indians and renegade whites.
The Unknown Quantity
1919-04-14
Mary Boyne, who made shirts at four dollars a week, had no place for love in her life - only despair
Night World
1932-05-04
"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night,
The King Murder
1932-09-15
A beautiful blonde makes a career out of seducing and then blackmailing wealthy married men. She is
True As Steel
1924-04-20
Successful middle-aged manufacturer Frank Parry takes a business trip to New York, where he becomes
Sensation Seekers
1927-03-21
The prohibition is in full swing and Egypt Hagen, a new woman, is the constant subject of controvers
Dancing Man
1934-02-24
A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the re
The Famous Mrs. Fair
1923-02-19
A silent film drama based on the Broadway play of the same name by James Forbes..
Enchantment
1921-10-29
The frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a gent
Reckless Youth
1922-03-30
A cautionary tale for aspiring flappers. Five of six reels survive.
Other Women's Husbands
1926-03-17
When his wife, Kay, goes out of town on a visit, Dick Lambert attends a party arranged by an old col
Red Haired Alibi
1932-10-21
A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the
Chastity
1923-12-31
A young woman trying to make it in Hollywood decides that the only way she can attain stardom is to
Their Big Moment
1934-08-17
Early '30s comedy-mystery involving magicians, fake psychics and murder.
The Dark Mirror
1920-05-08
New York society member Priscilla Maine is troubled by strange dreams in which she vividly sees memb
Professor Beware
1938-07-29
Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join
The Invisible Bond
1919-11-23
Seductress Leila Templeton lures Harleth Crossley into a supposed assignation at his wife Marcia’s d
Sally of the Subway
1932-01-15
Con artists use a member of a European royal family to swindle a major jewelry company.
The Gilded Butterfly
1926-01-03
Left penniless after the death of her reprobate father Linda Haverhill procures a loan from John Con
Portia on Trial
1937-11-08
Lady lawyer Portia Merryman defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners, who is on trial for shooting her lo
The Girl from Nowhere
1921-05-20
Headstrong Mavis Cole defying her grandfather runs away with the wealthy but caddish Herbert Whitman
Out Yonder
1919-12-21
Flotsam (Thomas) is the daughter and helper of crusty old lighthouse keeper Joe Clark (Edward Ellis,
Klondike Annie
1936-02-21
A San Francisco singer flees Chinatown on murder charges and poses as a missionary in Alaska.
Speed Madness
1932-07-29
More mile-a-minute action with the stunt ace Richard Talmadge playing the loafer son of a shipbuilde
Shadows of Paris
1924-02-18
A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.
Lady with Red Hair
1940-11-30
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
Anybody's Woman
1930-08-15
A lawyer, left by his wife, gets drunk and marries a chorus girl, or so he learns the morning after.
Bombay Mail
1934-01-06
In India, a police inspector investigates a murder that took place on a train between Calcutta and B
The Glorious Lady
1919-10-19
During an annual celebration in which English peasants and aristocrats mingle, the Duke of Loame is
Corruption
1933-06-18
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for
Afraid to Talk
1932-11-17
Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taki
Merrily Yours
1933-10-05
Sonny falls for the pretty new girl next door and decides to take her to a part. First, however, he
Managed Money
1934-02-22
Young Mary Lou tries to help her brother Sonny raise money so that he can attend a military academy.
Secrets
1933-03-16
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with cle
Melody Lane
1929-07-20
A songwriter leaves his chorus girl sweetheart to join the US Army in WWI. In France he falls in lov
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick'
1931-05-15
Bobby Jones shows Huntley Gordon and Vivian Oakland some tips on the use of the niblick (9 iron)
China Passage
1937-03-12
Americans Tommy Baldwin and Joe Dugan are hired to transport a fabulous diamond from Shanghai to San
New Movietone Follies of 1930
1930-05-04
Minimum plot. Maximum stars of early cinema. Rich young Conrad Sterling (William Collier Jr.) is in
The Frisky Mrs. Johnson
1920-11-12
Belle Johnson, a flirtatious widow in Paris for the carnival season, finds that the marriage of her
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1923-08-05
John Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when
The Enemy Sex
1924-08-25
A well-known sextet has been invited to a society gathering, and when one of them turns up missing,
Idol of the Crowds
1937-09-30
Retired hockey player Johnny Hansen, in order to make money to enlarge his chicken farm, returns to
The Great Divide
1925-02-15
Alone and unprotected in an isolated wilderness cabin, Ruth Jordan is discovered by three drunken br
Lady Scarface
1941-09-26
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes
Sailor Be Good
1933-03-07
A Navy boxer (Jack Oakie) meets a dance-hall hostess (Vivienne Osborne) who tries to sober him up fo
The Social Code
1923-10-01
Babs Van Buren saves her lover from the electric chair and at the same time extricates her older sis
Outcast
1928-11-11
Outcast is a 1928 silent film drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. It was dire
Man Wanted
1922-10-13
The Million Dollar Dollies
1918-05-25
Only Yesterday
1933-11-01
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young businessman is about to commit suicide. With a
Married Flirts
1924-10-27
Nelly is so intent on her writing career, that she neglects her appearance and her husband, Wayne. J
Stage Door
1937-10-08
The ups and downs in the lives and careers of a group of ambitious young actresses and show girls fr
The Golden Cocoon
1925-12-14
The story of a much put-upon woman who becomes involved with a professor of political economy only t
Atonement
1919-09-01
Page Miss Glory
1935-09-07
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant cel
Her Fatal Millions
1923-04-09
Mary Bishop, a clerk in a jewelry store, finds out that her ex-boyfriend Fred Garrison, who left tow
My Wife and I
1925-05-16
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both
Racetrack
1933-02-25
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted in
The Truthful Sex
1926-11-20
Sally Mapes and her husband, Robert, have a glorious romance after they are married but it hits trou
A Certain Young Man
1928-05-19
An aristocratic English womanizer is forced to take a fishing trip to avoid the husbands of his conq
So This Is Marriage?
1924-11-26
After five years of marriage, Beth and Peter Marsh's life together is a series of rows and reconcili
Scandal
1929-04-27
1929 picture starring Laura La Plante, Huntley Gordon, and John Boles.
Wine
1924-08-31
John Warriner, facing financial ruin, accepts the proposal of a bootlegger, Benedict, to underwrite
Silken Shackles
1926-05-13
The wife of an American diplomat falls in love with a young Hungarian violinist.
Embarrassing Moments
1934-09-01
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it lo
The All-American
1932-10-01
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
She Had to Choose
1934-10-01
A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along
Beyond the Rainbow
1922-02-19
Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her inv
The Common Cause
1919-01-05
Helene Palmer and her husband Orrin have grown apart, and she becomes infatuated with bachelor Edwar
When the Desert Calls
1922-10-08
British bank cashier Eldred Caldwell lives with his wife on the edge of the Arabian desert. One day
Red Foam
1920-10-01
The Destroyers
1916-06-05
Canadian Mountie Philip Curtis is telling Josephine McCloud, with whom he is in love, about a hermit
The Conflict
1916-07-03
Yours for the Asking
1936-07-23
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, i
Circumstantial Evidence
1935-03-30
A reporter sets out to provide how unreliable circumstantial evidence is by faking a murder and then
Men
1918-05-15
Sally's Shoulders
1928-10-14
American drama film based on the 1927 novel Sally's Shoulders by Beatrice Burton.