Born into a theatrical family, American actor Raymond Griffith was trained from an early age in the exacting art of pantomime. His ability to convey thoughts and emotions physically came in handy when Griffith went to work in silent pictures in 1914. After an apprenticeship at Vitagraph, Griffith became a staff writer and lead comic at Keystone Studios; his early buffoon roles bear little resemblance to his sleek, sophisticated characterizations of the 1920s. Signed as a supporting actor by Paramount, Griffith gained critical attention by stealing scenes in a series of wry social comedies. While everyone around him concerned themselves with the plotline, the mustachioed, tuxedoed Griffith would sit in a corner, react coolly and agreeably to the events, and then drink another cocktail. Promoted to leading roles, Griffith further developed his implacable, nonchalant characterization in such comedies as Paths to Paradise (1926). Hands Up (1927) is considered Griffith's masterpiece; as a dapper Civil War spy, he responds to the most horrendous of dangers as if calmly ordering breakfast. Offscreen Griffith's take-charge attitude served him well when he became a producer at Warner Bros. and 20th Century-Fox in the 1930s. Griffith was forced to switch from acting to producing in the sound era because he literally had no voice: as a result of straining his vocal chords in childhood, Griffith could barely manage a hoarse whisper. But before retiring from acting, Raymond Griffith was assigned his most famous (albeit uncredited) screen role, as the bayonetted French soldier in All Quiet on the Western Front, whose facial features freeze into a hauntingly quizzical death mask.
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He Married His Wife
Producer |
1940 | |||
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Little Old New York
Associate Producer |
1940 | |||
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The Great Profile
Producer |
1940 | |||
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The Man I Married
Associate Producer |
1940 | |||
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The Mark of Zorro
Producer |
1940 | |||
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Drums Along the Mohawk
Associate Producer, Producer |
1939 | |||
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Hotel for Women
Producer |
1939 | |||
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The Three Musketeers
Producer |
1939 | |||
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Always Goodbye
Associate Producer |
1938 | |||
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Producer |
1938 | |||
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The Baroness and the Butler
Producer |
1938 | |||
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Three Blind Mice
Producer |
1938 | |||
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Fifty Roads to Town
Producer |
1937 | |||
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Heidi
Associate Producer |
1937 | |||
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Second Honeymoon
Producer |
1937 | |||
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The Seventh Heaven
Producer |
1937 | |||
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Thin Ice
Associate Producer |
1937 | |||
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Wife, Doctor and Nurse
Producer |
1937 | |||
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A Message to Garcia
Associate Producer |
1936 | |||
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Girls' Dormitory
Producer |
1936 | |||
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It Had to Happen
Producer |
1936 | |||
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One in a Million
Associate Producer |
1936 | |||
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Poor Little Rich Girl
Producer |
1936 | |||
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Private Number
Producer |
1936 | |||
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Professional Soldier
Producer |
1936 | |||
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Under Two Flags
Producer |
1936 | |||
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Cardinal Richelieu
Producer |
1935 | |||
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Clive of India
Producer |
1935 | |||
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Folies Bergère
Producer |
1935 | |||
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Show Them No Mercy!
Producer |
1935 | |||
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Advice to the Lovelorn
Associate Producer |
1933 | |||
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Baby Face
Producer |
1933 | |||
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Blood Money
Associate Producer |
1933 | |||
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Broadway Through a Keyhole
Producer |
1933 | |||
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Elmer the Great
Producer |
1933 | |||
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Frisco Jenny
Producer |
1933 | |||
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Hard to Handle
Producer |
1933 | |||
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Ladies They Talk About
Producer |
1933 | |||
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Parachute Jumper
Producer |
1933 | |||
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Picture Snatcher
Producer |
1933 | |||
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The Bowery
Associate Producer, Book Author |
1933 | |||
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The Little Giant
Producer |
1933 | |||
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Voltaire
Producer |
1933 | |||
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Central Park
Producer |
1932 | |||
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Life Begins
Producer |
1932 | |||
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The Tenderfoot
Producer |
1932 | |||
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Tiger Shark
Producer |
1932 | |||
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You Said a Mouthful
Producer |
1932 | |||
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Bought
Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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Expensive Women
Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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Girls About Town
Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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God's Gift to Women
Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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Local Boy Makes Good
Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
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The Beloved Bachelor
Screenwriter |
1931 | |||
| 1930 | ||||
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Trent's Last Case
Actor |
1929 | |||
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Time to Love
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Wedding Bells
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Hands Up
Actor |
1926 | |||
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The Sorrows of Satan
Actor |
1926 | |||
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Wet Paint
Actor |
1926 | |||
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You'd Be Surprised
Actor |
1926 | |||
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A Regular Fellow
Actor |
1925 | |||
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Fine Clothes
Actor |
1925 | |||
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Forty Winks
Actor |
1925 | |||
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Miss Bluebeard
Actor |
1925 | |||
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Paths to Paradise
Actor |
1925 | |||
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The Night Club
Actor |
1925 | |||
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Changing Husbands
Actor |
1924 | |||
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Dawn of a Tomorrow
Actor |
1924 | |||
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Lily of the Dust
Actor |
1924 | |||
| 1924 | ||||
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Open All Night
Actor |
1924 | |||
| 1924 | ||||
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Yankee Consul
Screenwriter |
1924 | |||
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Day of Faith
Actor |
1923 | |||
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Minnie
Actor |
1923 | |||
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Red Lights
Actor |
1923 | |||
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Souls for Sale
Actor |
1923 | |||
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The Eternal Three
Actor |
1923 | |||
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White Tiger
Actor |
1923 | |||
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Crossroads of New York
Actor |
1922 | |||
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Fools First
Actor |
1922 | |||
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The Follies Girl
Actor |
1919 |


