Biography
Griff Barnett (born Manley Griffith) was an American actor. He was born on 12 November 1884 in Blue Ridge, Texas, and died on 12 January 1958 in El Monte, California.
In the early 20th century he was a member of the Mack-Hillard stock theatre company in Wichita, Kansas. He appeared in numerous films from the 1930s to the 1950s, often in supporting roles as doctors, judges or other authority figures, and also worked in radio and television. His credits include Duel in the Sun (1946), Criss Cross (1949), Pinky (1949), Angel Face (1953) as the Judge, and The Spirit of St. Louis (1957). He played the Rexall family druggist in commercials on the radio series The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show.
