---
name: "Griff Barnett"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/griff-barnett"
fi1m_id: "griff-barnett"
imdb_id: "nm0055899"
tmdb_id: 20146
wikidata_id: "Q3116611"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "12 November 1884"
died: "12 January 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T05:17:59.889306+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Griff Barnett

## Identity

Griff Barnett

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/griff-barnett
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** griff-barnett
- **IMDb ID:** nm0055899
- **TMDB ID:** 20146
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3116611
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griff_Barnett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3116611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055899/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20146

Actor. Born 12 November 1884 in Blue Ridge, Texas, USA. Died 12 January 1958.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 12 November 1884, Blue Ridge, Texas, USA
- **Died:** 12 January 1958
- **Also known as:** Griff Barnette, Manley Griffith
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griff_Barnett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3116611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0055899/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/20146

## 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*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Angel Face* (1953), Fi1m 78, as Judge — [page](https://film.one/film/angel-face.md)

## Complete filmography (56)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Spirit of St. Louis* (1957), as Dad - Farmer (uncredited)
- *Angel Face* (1953), as Judge — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/angel-face.md)
- *The Duel at Silver Creek* (1952), as Dan 'Pop' Muzik (uncredited)
- *The Sellout* (1952), as Atty. General J. R. Morrison
- *The Treasure of Lost Canyon* (1952), as Judge Wade
- *Scandal Sheet* (1952), as Elroy Hacker
- *Passage West* (1951), as Papa Emil Ludwig
- *Cattle Drive* (1951), as Conductor O'Hara
- *Two of a Kind* (1951), as William McIntyre
- *Home Town Story* (1951), as Uncle Cliff
- *When I Grow Up* (1951), as Dr. Bailey
- *Convicted* (1950), as Mr. Hufford (uncredited)
- *Peggy* (1950), as Dr. Philip Wilcox
- *Sierra* (1950), as Dr. Robbins
- *Customs Agent* (1950), as Charles McGraw
- *No Man of Her Own* (1950), as Dr. Parker
- *Holiday Affair* (1949), as Mr. Ennis
- *Pinky* (1949), as Dr. Joe McGill
- *The Fountainhead* (1949), as Judge (uncredited)
- *The Doolins of Oklahoma* (1949), as Deacon Burton
- *Mother Is a Freshman* (1949), as Dean Gillingham
- *Criss Cross* (1949), as Pop
- *The Walls of Jericho* (1948), as Judge Hutto
- *Apartment for Peggy* (1948), as Dr. Philip Conway
- *For the Love of Mary* (1948), as Timothy Peppertree
- *Tap Roots* (1948), as Dr. MacIntosh
- *Fighting Father Dunne* (1948), as Governor
- *Fury at Furnace Creek* (1948), as Appleby
- *The Tender Years* (1948), as Senator Cooper
- *Daisy Kenyon* (1947), as (uncredited)
- *Saigon* (1947), as Surgeon
- *The Gangster* (1947), as Dorothy's father (uncredited)
- *Unconquered* (1947), as Brother Andrews of Pennsylvania
- *Wild Harvest* (1947), as Rankin
- *Michigan Kid* (1947), as Prentiss Dawson
- *Gunfighters* (1947), as Mr. Banner
- *Champagne for Two* (1947), as Benjamin Cowdy
- *Stepchild* (1947), as Burns
- *Possessed* (1947), as Coroner
- *The Millerson Case* (1947), as Doc Sam Millerson
- *Sweet and Low* (1947), as Harlan Kane
- *Suddenly It's Spring* (1947), as Train conductor
- *Duel in the Sun* (1946), as Bordertown Jailer (uncredited)
- *Danger Woman* (1946), as Dr. George Carey
- *Without Reservations* (1946), as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- *To Each His Own* (1946), as Daniel J. Norris
- *Strange Holiday* (1945), as Regan
- *Shadows on the Sage* (1942), as Steve Jackson
- *Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.* (1941), as Plant Watchman
- *Gangs of Sonora* (1941), Actor
- *The Lady from Cheyenne* (1941), as Cork Supporter
- *Arizona* (1940), as Sam Hughes
- *Frontier Vengeance* (1940), as Joel Hunter (as Griff Barnette)
- *The Shadow* (1940), as Stephen Prescott
- *The Lone Ranger Rides Again* (1939), as E.B. Tully
- *Santa Fe Stampede* (1938), as Townsman Henry Jones

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