Huntley Gordon
Biography
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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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1887-10-08
Place of birth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Cast
Phantom of Chinatown
1940
5.76
Never the Twain Shall Meet
1925
6.00
The Golden Web
1926
0.00
One Increasing Purpose
1927
0.00
Our Mrs. McChesney
1918
0.00
Out of the Snows
1920
0.00
Murder by Television
1935
3.95
Our Dancing Daughters
1928
6.20
Brother of the Bear
1921
0.00
My Lady o' the Pines
1921
4.00
Gangster's Boy
1938
0.00
Don't Tell the Wife
1927
0.00
Name the Woman
1928
0.00
Pleasure Mad
1923
0.00
The Wanters
1923
0.00
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
4.33
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935
5.40
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
1939
5.27
Society Snobs
1921
0.00
The World Gone Mad
1933
4.30
Midnight Warning
1932
4.20
The Marriage Playground
1929
5.80
Tropical Love
1921
0.00
Daniel Boone
1936
4.60
The Unknown Quantity
1919
0.00
Night World
1932
6.67
The King Murder
1932
4.00
True As Steel
1924
0.00
Sensation Seekers
1927
6.40
Dancing Man
1934
5.00
The Famous Mrs. Fair
1923
0.00
Enchantment
1921
5.60
Reckless Youth
1922
0.00
Other Women's Husbands
1926
0.00
Red Haired Alibi
1932
4.36
Chastity
1923
0.00
Their Big Moment
1934
3.80
The Dark Mirror
1920
6.00
Professor Beware
1938
6.10
The Invisible Bond
1919
0.00
Sally of the Subway
1932
6.00
The Gilded Butterfly
1926
0.00
Portia on Trial
1937
5.43
The Girl from Nowhere
1921
0.00
Out Yonder
1919
6.30
Klondike Annie
1936
6.40
Speed Madness
1932
0.00
Shadows of Paris
1924
0.00
Lady with Red Hair
1940
6.50
Anybody's Woman
1930
5.90
Bombay Mail
1934
6.00
The Glorious Lady
1919
6.00
Corruption
1933
5.30
Afraid to Talk
1932
6.00
Merrily Yours
1933
4.80
Managed Money
1934
4.60
Secrets
1933
4.80
Melody Lane
1929
0.00
China Passage
1937
5.50
New Movietone Follies of 1930
1930
0.00
The Frisky Mrs. Johnson
1920
0.00
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1923
0.00
The Enemy Sex
1924
9.00
Idol of the Crowds
1937
4.10
The Great Divide
1925
0.00
Lady Scarface
1941
5.10
Sailor Be Good
1933
0.00
The Social Code
1923
0.00
Outcast
1928
0.00
Man Wanted
1922
0.00
The Million Dollar Dollies
1918
6.00
Only Yesterday
1933
6.80
Married Flirts
1924
0.00
Stage Door
1937
7.01
The Golden Cocoon
1925
0.00
Atonement
1919
0.00
Page Miss Glory
1935
6.30
Her Fatal Millions
1923
0.00
My Wife and I
1925
0.00
Racetrack
1933
0.00
The Truthful Sex
1926
1.00
A Certain Young Man
1928
0.00
So This Is Marriage?
1924
0.00
Scandal
1929
0.00
Wine
1924
0.00
Silken Shackles
1926
0.00
Embarrassing Moments
1934
0.00
The All-American
1932
5.00
She Had to Choose
1934
5.00
Beyond the Rainbow
1922
0.00
The Common Cause
1919
0.00
When the Desert Calls
1922
0.00
Red Foam
1920
0.00
The Destroyers
1916
0.00
The Conflict
1916
0.00
Yours for the Asking
1936
3.50
Circumstantial Evidence
1935
6.00
Men
1918
0.00
Sally's Shoulders
1928
0.00
What Fools Men Are
1922
0.00
Cordelia the Magnificent
1923
0.00
Your Friend and Mine
1923
0.00
The Love Hour
1925
0.00
Gypsy of the North
1928
0.00
Lost at Sea
1926
0.00
The Beloved Impostor
1918
0.00
At the Stage Door
1921
0.00
What's Wrong with the Women?
1922
0.00
The Wife Who Wasn't Wanted
1925
0.00