Huntley Gordon
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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.
Acted in
Lady Scarface
1941
as James A. Pierce
Lady with Red Hair
1940
as Actor Playing John (uncredited)
Phantom of Chinatown
1940
as Dr. Norman Wilkes
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
1939
as Mr. Davidson
Gangster's Boy
1938
as Principal
Professor Beware
1938
as Capell - Producer
Portia on Trial
1937
as Dr. Thorndike
Stage Door
1937
as Cast of Stage Play
Idol of the Crowds
1937
as Harvey Castle
China Passage
1937
as Arthur Trent
Daniel Boone
1936
as Sir John Randolph
Klondike Annie
1936
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935
as David Kummer
Murder by Television
1935
as Dr. Henry M. Scofield
Page Miss Glory
1935
as Radio Official (uncredited)
She Had to Choose
1934
as Attorney
Embarrassing Moments
1934
as Runyon
Their Big Moment
1934
as John Farrington
Dancing Man
1934
as Mason
Managed Money
1934
as Police Officer
Bombay Mail
1934
as Burgess
Only Yesterday
1933
as Investor (Uncredited)
Merrily Yours
1933
as Police Officer
Corruption
1933
as District Attorney Blake
The World Gone Mad
1933
as Osborne
Secrets
1933
as William Carlton
Sailor Be Good
1933
as Mr. Whitney
Racetrack
1933
as Attorney
Afraid to Talk
1932
as Governor
Midnight Warning
1932
as Mr. Gordon
Red Haired Alibi
1932
as Capt. Kent
The All-American
1932
as Harcourt
The King Murder
1932
as Arthur B. Bronnell
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
as Brent
Speed Madness
1932
as Harrington
Night World
1932
as Jim
Sally of the Subway
1932
as Stanley M. Gordon
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick'
1931
as Huntley - the Husband (uncredited)
Anybody's Woman
1930
as Grant Crosby
New Movietone Follies of 1930
1930
The Marriage Playground
1929
as Cliff Wheater
Melody Lane
1929
as Rinaldi
Scandal
1929
as Burke Innes
Outcast
1928
as Hugh
Our Dancing Daughters
1928
as Diana's Father
Name the Woman
1928
A Certain Young Man
1928
as Mr. Hammond
Sensation Seekers
1927
as Ray Sturgis
Don't Tell the Wife
1927
as Jacques Cartier
One Increasing Purpose
1927
as Andrew Paris
The Truthful Sex
1926
The Golden Web
1926
as Roland Deane
Silken Shackles
1926
Other Women's Husbands
1926
as Jack Harding
The Gilded Butterfly
1926
as John Converse
The Golden Cocoon
1925
as Gregory Cochran
Never the Twain Shall Meet
1925
as Mark Mellenger
My Wife and I
1925
as Mr. James Borden
The Great Divide
1925
as Philip Jordan
So This Is Marriage?
1924
Married Flirts
1924
as Pendleton Wayne
Wine
1924
as John Warriner
The Enemy Sex
1924
as Judge Massingale
True As Steel
1924
as Frank Parry
Shadows of Paris
1924
as Raoul Grammont - Minister of the Interior
Chastity
1923
as Darcy Roche
The Wanters
1923
as Theodore Van Pelt
Pleasure Mad
1923
as Hugh Benton
The Social Code
1923
as Judge Evans Grant
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1923
as John Brandon
Her Fatal Millions
1923
as Fred Garrison
The Famous Mrs. Fair
1923
as Jeffrey Fair
Man Wanted
1922
as Charlie Harris
Reckless Youth
1922
as Harrison Thomby
Enchantment
1921
as Fairy Tale King
Tropical Love
1921
as Clifford Fayne
My Lady o' the Pines
1921
as Penn Thornton
The Girl from Nowhere
1921
as Herbert Whitman
Society Snobs
1921
as Duane Thornton
Brother of the Bear
1921
as Vincent Harris
The Frisky Mrs. Johnson
1920
as Sir Lionel Heathcote
Out of the Snows
1920
as Sgt. Graham
The Dark Mirror
1920
as Dr. Philip Fosdick
Out Yonder
1919
as Edward Elmer
The Invisible Bond
1919
The Glorious Lady
1919
as Lord Chettington
Atonement
1919
as Vincent Carlton
The Unknown Quantity
1919
as Dan Kinsolving
Our Mrs. McChesney
1918
as T.A. Buck Jr
The Million Dollar Dollies
1918