Carlton Griffin

AKA: C. Elliott Griffin, C. E. Griffin

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1893-05-22

New York City, New York, USA

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {37}

Desk Man (uncredited)

1937-02-26 6

Love Is News

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every sales ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Ronald De Vore

1924-04-20 6.963

Girl Shy

Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fa ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Donald Valentine (as C. Elliott Griffin)

1922-04-30 1

Shackles of Gold

Gibbs is a laborer at the docks who, through his hard work and good judgment, becomes a millionaire on Wall Street. He becomes acquainted with the Van Dusens, who have lost their fortune. Mrs. Van Dus ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

The Lieutenant

1930-12-27 2.8

High C's

The comic and musical adventures of Charley Chase as he fights in the great war. ...

Genre :Comedy, War

Morris

1926-04-18 0

The Impostor

The debauched son of a wealthy family, Dick Gilbert, is forced to raise money to pay off gambling debts and uses a valuable family jewel as security for a loan from Prince Borkoff, but it is stolen by ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Lieutenant

1931-04-24 6

Rough Seas

On his way home following World War I, Charley smuggles his French sweetheart aboard ship and gets into all kinds of trouble. ...

Genre :Comedy

Roger Caldwell (uncredited)

1926-03-21 5.8

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's bi ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Adventure

Second Announcer (uncredited)

1935-09-07 0

Slightly Static

Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station. ...

Genre :Comedy

Spectator (uncredited)

1934-02-10 9

Babes in the Goods

Thelma and Patsy get jobs demonstrating washing machines in a department store window. However, on their first day on the job, they accidentally get locked in the store overnight. ...

Genre :Comedy

Man with False Teeth (uncredited)

1934-05-19 0

Maid in Hollywood

Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to th ...

Genre :Comedy

Director

1938-03-03 7

Start Cheering

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Romance

Man inside bull costume (uncredited)

1930-01-25 5.7

Shivering Shakespeare

The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go from bad to worse when the neighborhood tough kids ...

Genre :Comedy

Griff

1931-03-21 6.3

The Pip from Pittsburg

Charley agrees to go on a blind date to help out his roommate. But because his last such date turned out badly, he goes all out trying to make himself look bad. He refuses to shave, wears his friend's ...

Genre :Comedy

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1934-02-22 7.827

It Happened One Night

A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them behind. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Bank Clerk (uncredited)

1938-09-01 7.5

You Can't Take It with You

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the K ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Officer (uncredited)

1924-01-02 5.2

Forbidden Paradise

Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirators and is rewarded with her love. Infatuated, he deserts his sweetheart, Anna, the Czarina's lady-in ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Mr. Barnes

1940-09-01 6.7

Five Little Peppers in Trouble

The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school. ...

Genre :Family, Comedy, Drama

Party Guest (uncredited)

1936-04-09 7.5

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for ever ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Party Guest (uncredited)

1936-09-24 5.1

Murder with Pictures

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock romances a mystery woman ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery

American Consul

1933-06-02 0

Arabian Tights

Charley and his buddies are captured and imprisoned by an Arabian sultan. ...

Genre :Comedy

Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)

1940-10-02 5.8

Angels Over Broadway

Small-time businessman Charles Engle is threatened with exposure for embezzling $3,000 for his free-spending wife. Deciding on suicide, he scribbles a note, stuffs it in his pocket and goes for one la ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Juror (uncredited)

1940-08-07 6.64

The Lady in Question

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Lt. Griffin

1932-05-27 0

First in War

Charley writes the national anthem for the country of Nicarania and winds up getting mixed up in a revolution there. ...

Genre :Comedy

Ronnie

1933-03-18 0

Nature in the Wrong

Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing himself a descendant of Tarzan. Conked on the head, Ch ...

Genre :Comedy

District Attorney

1934-06-16 3.3

Another Wild Idea

Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his ...

Genre :Comedy

Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

1937-11-19 3.667

Blossoms On Broadway

A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Photographer (uncredited)

1935-11-09 0

Ship Cafe

The singing stoker and the vamp. ...

Genre :Music

Count Fontaine

1926-01-05 0

Her Big Adventure

Ralph Merriwell (Herbert Rawlinson) has an argument with his wealthy father, Silas (William Turner), and decides to go live on his own terms. He finds work as a bellhop in a fancy Los Angeles hotel. M ...

Genre :Drama

Socialite (uncredited)

1936-09-02 7.5

My Man Godfrey

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a ...

Genre :Comedy

Deputy (Uncredited)

1936-12-01 6.2

Great Guy

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Office Clerk

1934-07-07 0

It Happened One Day

Charley meets his new boss--who has a lovely daughter. ...

Genre :Comedy

Secretary

1934-05-04 4.9

Stand Up and Cheer!

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon run ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Family

Café Manager (uncredited)

1937-05-02 6

The Frame-Up

A detective investigates a racing scam. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Dance Hall Lothario (uncredited)

1925-02-23 5.667

Lady of the Night

The story of two baby girls, born near in proximity but worlds apart in society: Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thief, and Florence Banning, the daughter of the judge who sent Molly's father to priso ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Clerk (uncredited)

1935-12-27 6

White Lies

A powerful publisher John Mitchell whose pursuit of sensational headlines at the expense of all else takes a personal toll when his daughter Joan is implicated in a murder. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Lord Coventry

1924-10-15 0

The Painted Flapper

A socially-ambitious mother is pushing her younger daughter into a life-style that will satisfy the desires of the mother but the older daughter, having tasted the consequences of such a life, determi ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

George Andrews

1921-12-11 0

At the Stage Door

As children, sisters Helen Mathews and Mary Mathews couldn't be more dissimilar--Helen is selfish, thoughtless and self-centered, while Mary is exactly the opposite. Later, Helen--out of spite--steals ...