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.
Acting (94 movies)
Phantom of Chinatown
1940
Never the Twain Shall Meet
1925
The Golden Web
1926
One Increasing Purpose
1927
Our Mrs. McChesney
1918
Out of the Snows
1920
Murder by Television
1935
Our Dancing Daughters
1928
Gangster's Boy
1938
Don't Tell the Wife
1927
Name the Woman
1928
Pleasure Mad
1923
The Wanters
1923
Broadway to Cheyenne
1932
The Spanish Cape Mystery
1935
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
1939
Society Snobs
1921
The World Gone Mad
1933
Midnight Warning
1932
The Marriage Playground
1929
Tropical Love
1921
Daniel Boone
1936
The Unknown Quantity
1919
Night World
1932
The King Murder
1932
True As Steel
1924
Sensation Seekers
1927
Dancing Man
1934
The Famous Mrs. Fair
1923
Enchantment
1921
Reckless Youth
1922
Other Women's Husbands
1926
Red Haired Alibi
1932
Chastity
1923
Their Big Moment
1934
The Dark Mirror
1920
Professor Beware
1938
The Invisible Bond
1919
Sally of the Subway
1932
The Gilded Butterfly
1926
Portia on Trial
1937
The Girl from Nowhere
1921
Out Yonder
1919
Klondike Annie
1936
Speed Madness
1932
Shadows of Paris
1924
Lady with Red Hair
1940
Anybody's Woman
1930
Bombay Mail
1934
The Glorious Lady
1919
Corruption
1933
Afraid to Talk
1932
Merrily Yours
1933
Managed Money
1934
Secrets
1933
Melody Lane
1929
How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 3: 'The Niblick'
1931
China Passage
1937
New Movietone Follies of 1930
1930
The Frisky Mrs. Johnson
1920
Bluebeard's 8th Wife
1923
The Enemy Sex
1924
Idol of the Crowds
1937
The Great Divide
1925
Lady Scarface
1941
Sailor Be Good
1933
The Social Code
1923
Outcast
1928
Man Wanted
1922
The Million Dollar Dollies
1918
Only Yesterday
1933
Married Flirts
1924
Stage Door
1937
The Golden Cocoon
1925
Atonement
1919
Page Miss Glory
1935
My Wife and I
1925
Racetrack
1933
The Truthful Sex
1926
A Certain Young Man
1928
So This Is Marriage?
1924
Wine
1924
Embarrassing Moments
1934
The All-American
1932
She Had to Choose
1934
Beyond the Rainbow
1922
The Common Cause
1919
When the Desert Calls
1922
Red Foam
1920
The Destroyers
1916
Yours for the Asking
1936
Circumstantial Evidence
1935
Men
1918
Sally's Shoulders
1928
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