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  Raymond Griffith biography
Raymond Griffith began in films in 1915 doing work as an actor, gag man, scenario writer or whatever else was required of him; however, it was his comedies of the mid-twenties that brought him the greatest fame as the "Silk Hat Comedian."
Raymond Griffith was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 23, 1895*, to stage parents.
Griffith was establishing a unique style of acting during this period ­ not strictly comedic and not strictly dramatic.
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  Raymond Griffith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Raymond Griffith was born on January 23, 1895 in Boston, Massachusetts...
The Bankruptcy of Boggs and Schultz (1916) (as Ray Griffith)....
Blackmail in a Hospital (1915) (as Ray Griffith)....
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 Griffith Family - pafg04.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Franklin Knode GRIFFITH (George Archibald, Lewis Alexander Boteler, Isaac) was born on 7 Dec 1880 in Carroll Co., Iowa.
Raymond Lymond GRIFFITH [image] (George Archibald, Lewis Alexander Boteler, Isaac) was born on 24 Jul 1883 in Carroll Co., IA. He died on 22 Apr 1968 in Callaway, Custer, NE and was buried in Rose Hill Cem., Callaway, Custer, NE.
Rhoda Olive GRIFFITH "Olive" (George Archibald, Lewis Alexander Boteler, Isaac) was born on 20 Feb 1888 in Custer Co., NE.
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 Raymond Griffith - The Silk Hat Comedian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Griffith applauds his own firing squad for their accuracy.
Raymond Griffith in A DASH OF COURAGE (1916)
Raymond Griffith in LILY OF THE DUST (1924)
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 Raymond Griffith - The Silk Hat Comedian
Griffith says via a title "Pardon me, this is a private execution." She drops her basket and runs away in horror.
The only trouble was we had Raymond Griffith as the star and he talked like this [in a hoarse whisper due to damaged vocal cords].
Raymond Griffith in LILY OF THE DUST (1924)
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 Griffith Family - pafg07.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Lloyd Raymond GRIFFITH (Raymond Lymond, George Archibald, Lewis Alexander Boteler, Isaac) was born on 1 Oct 1903 in Callaway, Custer, NE.
Olive Viola GRIFFITH (Raymond Lymond, George Archibald, Lewis Alexander Boteler, Isaac) was born on 28 Nov 1908 in Callaway, Custer, NE.
Irene GRIFFITH (Verne Scott, Abraham Lincoln, Lewis Alexander Boteler, Isaac) was born on 22 Jan 1918.
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 © Raymond Griffith - Silent Film Star - goldensilents.com
Griffith's footprints are on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, testifying to his star status in those silent film days of so long ago.
Today only a few of Griffith's silent films survive, but the films that do show a unique and pleasant talent, a subtle form of humor which is just now being rediscovered and enjoyed by modern audiences.
Raymond Griffith and Betty Compson in "Paths to Paradise" (1925)
www.goldensilents.com /comedy/raymondgriffith.html   (645 words)

  
 www.dailyrecord.com - After Greystone: Journeys through schizophrenia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
We learned a lot," said Raymond Griffith of Chester Township, whose son, Teddy, now 42, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1978 when he had his first psychotic episode, defined as a break with reality.
The Griffiths talk openly about their son’s illness because not to disclose it would be to add to the stigma of mental illness.
Raymond Griffith recalled driving home last December and hearing a radio show in which a man played Christmas carols and changed the words so they were unkind to people with mental illness.
www.dailyrecord.com /lifestyle/greystone/parttwo   (2414 words)

  
 Raymond M. Griffith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Raymond M. Griffith, age 61, of North Branch died June 21, 2001.
Ray was born on Nov. 10, 1939 in Kelso, Washington to parents Henry and Marie Griffith.
Raymond was preceded in death by brother William.
www.ecm-inc.com /news/postreview/2001/June/27Griffith.html   (159 words)

  
 Silas Griffith Inn - William Raymond Suite
The William Raymond Suite is currently unavailable for rent.
Please see the Mary Frances Suite for comparable quarters.
The William Raymond Suite offers an economical solution to families or friends
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Griffith resided at 109 S. Court where she was retired from office work at a local clothing store.
Raymond A. Griffith, 73, of Alma, died Friday, June 25, 1982 at the Midland Skilled Care Center.
Griffith was born Oct 4, 1908 in Emerson Township to Roy and Pearl (Mann) Griffith.
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 Raymond Griffith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
When sound came in, Griffith's hoarse, whispery voice (due to the fact that his vocal cords had been damaged when he was a youngster) made performing in talkies unthinkable, though he did try, notably as the lead in 1930's TRENT'S LAST CASE a comedy-mystery directed by Howard Hawks.
Griffith's old friend Darryl F. Zanuck hired him as a writer and producer, and he worked on over 50 films before retiring in 1940.
Griffith died at the Masquers Club in Los Angeles, choking on some partially chewed food.
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 Raymond Griffith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Griffith claimed that it was the result of his having to scream at the top of his lungs every night in a stage melodrama as a child actor -- others have stated that a childhood disease was more likely the cause.
The coming of sound ended Griffith's acting career, but he did have one memorable role in a motion picture before retiring from the screen, playing a French soldier killed by Lew Ayres in the 1930 Lewis Milestone film All Quiet on the Western Front.
Griffith choked to death at The Masquers Club in Los Angeles, California, aged 61, on November 25, 1957.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raymond_Griffith   (295 words)

  
 InLiquid News - Secret Cinema
In his first starring vehicle, Raymond Griffith plays his top-hatted, super smooth comic character to the hilt as a clever con man that must team up with his female equal (Betty Compson) to heist a priceless diamond necklace.
After working as a child stage actor, a circus performer, and a vaudeville pantomime, Raymond Griffith began in movies around 1915, as a gag man and actor in short comedies.
Walter Kerr wrote in The SILENT CLOWNS that "Griffith's originality, and the essence of his comedy, lay in his perfectly honest undemanding, unregretted, eternally grinning iconoclasm." After progressing to scene-stealing character roles in feature dramas, he was given complete creative control in a series of comedy features for Paramount.
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 OA Online Obituaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Raymond Clark Griffith was born November 3, 1920, in Hamilton, to William and Rosie Frizzell Griffith.
He was preceded in death by his wife, June Griffith and son, Raymond Griffith.
Sheep is survived by his children, Mike Griffith and wife, Becky, Duane Griffith and wife, Reba, Carma Hodge and husband, Mark, and Leonard Griffith; 10 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; sister, Lucille Seals; and numerous nieces and nephews.
www.oaoa.com /obit/obits102604.htm   (1866 words)

  
 Hands Up!
Simultaneously, Griffith's character is recruited by Robert E. Lee to waylay the booty.
Inevitably, the other outstanding element is Griffith himself and the manner with which he draws attention to his character through the least frenetic exercise of comic energy.
A noteworthy set of gags that play upon Griffith's audacious insouciance arise when he is being lined up for execution as a spy by the Union troops and inadvertently comes into possession of a picnic basket.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/05/35/hands_up.html   (1296 words)

  
 OSCN Found Document:Jones v. Oklahoma Employment Sec. Com'n
Green, 411 U.S. ¶8 Here, Jones asserts that certain alleged racially derogatory remarks of Wayne Winn, Executive Director of OESC at the time she was denied promotion, and defendant Raymond Griffith, Jones' supervisor until she was transferred in August 1992, were direct evidence of discrimination.
Jones alleged that Griffith called her offensive names, made lewd sexual remarks, and treated fl people with contempt.
For Jones' argument to be considered valid, she must present evidence that Griffith's or Winn's biases influenced the promotion decision.
www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=151485   (1905 words)

  
 Hands Up | Plot | MTV Movies
Griffith plays a Southern spy during the Civil War, sent West to retrieve a vital gold shipment.
Along the way, he meets boisterous Mack Swain (who was nearly booted from the film because the vainglorious Griffith felt he was "too goddamned funny") and falls in love with both of Swain's pretty daughters (Marian Nixon, Virginia Lee Corbin).
Though Griffith never displays an emotion nor outwardly elicits audience sympathy throughout Hands Up, we're pulling for him all the way, eagerly anticipating his every move.
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/14746/plot.jhtml   (445 words)

  
 Time To Love (1927)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Caption: Frank Tuttle directing a scene for Raymond Griffith's Paramount Picture "Time To Love".
Griffith may be seen in the boat with Vera Veronina, his leading lady.
with Raymond Griffith, Vera Voronina, and William Powell.
home.comcast.net /~silentfilm/timeto.htm   (55 words)

  
 village voice > film > by Elliott Stein
The revelation of the series is Raymond Griffith, the brilliant "silk hat comedian," largely forgotten these days since most of his films have been lost.
After a boyhood in the theater, Griffith entered films as an actor and gag man with Mack Sennett and developed into a star in the mid '20s.
Two jaunty Griffith features, Clarence Badger's Paths to Paradise (1925, April 28) and Arthur Rosson's You'd Be Surprised (1926, May 19), are the high points of the sidebar.
www.villagevoice.com /film/0217,stein,34135,20.html   (575 words)

  
 Sixth Generation
Mayo A. GRIFFITH and Sarah Maude SPILLERS were married about 1895 in Iowa.
Sarah Maude SPILLERS was born in Jun 1878 in Iowa.
Lloyd M. was born on 2 Sep 1907 in Oklahoma.
www.birdsofafeather1.com /surnames/huggins/b16.htm   (231 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Forty Winks : Main
Viola Dana, Raymond Griffith, Theodore Roberts, Cyril Chadwick
Raymond Griffith's star was on the rise when he made this comedy, based on the play Lord C...
Raymond Griffith's star was on the rise when he made this comedy, based on the play Lord Chumley by David Belasco and Henry C. De Mille (father of directors Cecil B. De Mille and William C. De Mille).
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 Arts at Argonne -- Silent-Film Event
Today, D.W. Griffith is known largely for his pioneering work in developing film techniques.
Griffith also created social commentaries about such ills as alcoholism and drug addiction, focusing on the plight of the poor and helpless in turn-of-the-century America.
Players: Raymond Griffith (1890-1957), Mack Swain, Marion Nixon, Virginia Lee Corbin.
www.anl.gov /ARTS/0001_film.html   (617 words)

  
 Silent Era : The silent film website
Image Entertainment has released a double-feature edition of D.W. Griffith’s True Heart Susie (1919) starring Lillian Gish and Hoodoo Ann (1916) starring Mae Marsh.
(1926) starring Raymond Griffith, and Norma Talmadge at Vitagraph (1909) featuring seven shorts and a feature film exerpt.
Alpha Video has released DVD editions of The Squaw Man (1914) directed by Cecil B. DeMille., and Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927) starring James Pierce and Boris Karloff.
www.silentera.com   (1539 words)

  
 TIME.com: One-Man Studio -- Jun. 12, 1950 -- Page 5
Two of the club members, William Russell and Raymond Griffith, who were big stars of the day, treated Zanuck tolerantly.
After that, he flourished briefly at selling his stories to the films until, in 1923, the studios suddenly decided to have no truck with writers unless they had literary reputations.
In his first real stroke of Hollywood genius, he persuaded the manufacturer of a hair tonic called Yuccatone to pay for the job-printing of a volume called Habit, which is now a collector's item.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,812681-5,00.html   (738 words)

  
 PATHS TO PARADISE - SUNDAY AFTERNOON RE-DISCOVERIES matinee, part of our THE GREAT AMERICAN COMEDY Film Series at Film ...
More double-crosses than a Mamet double feature in this Duel of the Crook Titans, with "Dude from Duluth" Raymond Griffith going toe-to-toe with badger game queen Betty Compson, finally teaming up to steal a "Gibralter-sized" diamond.
High-tailing it from a Frisco mansion, they make a run for the Mexican border, changing a flat and refueling on the go while breathlessly pursued by an armada of motorcycle cops, with fresh recruits joining the chase at San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, L.A., San Diego and every other town along the California coast.
"Raymond Griffith managed to combine the urbane sophistication of a[n Adolph] Menjou with the dry wit of Keaton and the comedy-thrill climaxes of [Harold] Lloyd.
www.filmforum.org /comedyfilms/paths.html   (171 words)

  
 White Tiger movie posters and memorabilia at MovieGoods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
She claimed, "If I had a third career (she was formerly a model), I’d want to be a landscape gardener."
Three crooks pull off a major heist and hide out in a mountain cabin where their mistrust of each other grows.
Cast: Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Raymond Griffith, Wallace Beery; DIRECTED BY: Tod Browning.
www.moviegoods.com /movie_product.asp?master_movie_id=17466   (153 words)

  
 Thomas Reynolds Gallery - San Francisco
Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Raymond Griffith
In 1921 Redmond appeared in "The Three Musketeers" with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, and several of his paintings went home with them to Pickfair, their legendary Beverly Hills estate.
In 1926 Redmond played a deaf valet in Raymond Griffith's "You'd Be Surprised." Griffith acquired one of Redmond's major poppy paintings, which he later gave to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where it hangs today.
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 Hands Up! (1926)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
User Comments: Raymond Griffith is a lost comedic treasure (more)
I thoroughly recommend this 70 minute feature which showcases Raymond Griffith as a Southern spy attempting to thwart a gold shipment to the North from Nevada.
His style of acting is quite sophisticated, reminding me of an American Max Linder.
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 Jimmie Raymond GRIFFITH/Gertrude TUMFART   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Name: Susanne Iris GRIFFITH Born: 26 Jul 1967 at: Bad Toelz, West Germany Married: 15 Feb 1992 at: Waco, TX Died: at: Spouses: Jodie NEMMER
Name: Michaela Anita GRIFFITH Born: 9 Sep 1971 at: Munchen, West Germany; Baryen Married: 8 Aug 1994 at: Gatesville, Coryell County, TX Died: at: Spouses: Steven Paul FIEGEL Robert Clayton WILLIAMS Charles Wayne ELLIS
Name: Jimmie Raymond GRIFFITH Born: 28 Sep 1974 at: Gatesville, Coryell County, TX Married: at: Died: at: Spouses:
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 George Emerson GRIFFITH/Thirise Rissie Elizabeth TURNER
Name: Alma GRIFFITH Born: 1898 at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses: Zip WHEELER
Name: Laman Wesley GRIFFITH Born: 22 DEC 1908 at: Latham, Weakley Co., TN Married: at: Died: at: Spouses:
Name: Raymond GRIFFITH Born: at: Married: at: Died: at: Spouses:
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 The 2004 Fall Cinesation
Once a forgotten silent comedy with a forgotten comic, Raymond Griffith.
It's a story of a jewel heist, dumb cops and a touch of jealousy that made it worth watching again.
The Big Parade), picked the cinematographer, her old friend from her Griffith days Hendrick Sartov, who had invented a soft focus lens he called the
www.cinephiles.org /The_2004_Fall_Cinesation.html   (1311 words)

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