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  1. Raymond Griffith (January 23, 1895 – November 25, 1957) was an American silent movie comedian. Later in his career, he worked behind the camera as writer and producer.

  2. Raymond Griffith. Actor: The Night Club. Raymond Griffith was born on January 23, 1895 in Boston, Massachusetts into a theatrical family. His parents, James Henry Griffith and Mary Guichard, were both actors, as were his grandfather, Gerald Griffith, and his great grandfather, Thomas Griffith.

  3. Raymond Griffith. Actor: The Night Club. Raymond Griffith was born on January 23, 1895 in Boston, Massachusetts into a theatrical family. His parents, James Henry Griffith and Mary Guichard, were both actors, as were his grandfather, Gerald Griffith, and his great grandfather, Thomas Griffith.

  4. Jun 13, 2023 · Raymond Griffith is one of the best kept secrets of silent comedy. During a twenty-five year career he not only wrote, directed and produced movies, but was also the star of nine comedy features for Paramount.

  5. Mar 5, 2024 · Griffith was a uniquely reactive comedian. He could throw himself about with some courage, but never aspired to the knockabout wonder of a Keaton: his original background was the legitimate stage, not vaudeville. Instead, he uses his reactions to the events around him to provoke laughter.

  6. by Bruce Calvert. "Raymond Griffith seems to me to occupy a handsome fifth place - after Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Langdon - in the silent comedy pantheon, a place that is his by right of his refusal to ape his contemporaries and his insistence on following the devious curve of an entirely idiosyncratic eye."

  7. Raymond Grifith is one of silent come-dys unjustly forgoten masters, whose onscreen persona was that of a calm, cool, world-weary bon vivant – some-thing like Max Linder on Prozac.