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Gattlin Griffith
American film and television actor

Gattlin Griffith

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American film and television actor
Gender
Male
Place of birth
California, USA
Age
26 years
Family
Mother:
Wendy Morrison Griffith
Siblings:
Callder West Arrden Hunt Garrison Cahill
Education
Bishop Alemany High School, Los Angeles, California
(-2017)
English
University of California, Los Angeles, California
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Biography

Gattlin Griffith (born November 13, 1998) is an American actor, best known for portraying Walter Collins in the 2008 film Changeling (directed by Clint Eastwood)

Early life and education

Gattlin Griffith was born as Gattlin Tadd Griffith on November 13, 1998, in California to film stuntman Tad Griffith and wife Wendy Morrison Griffith. 

He is the eldest of four siblings and his three younger brothers are Callder West, Arrden Hunt, and Garrison Cahill.

Gattlin is the fourth generation of a champion trick riding and equestrian gymnastics family. His paternal grandfather, Dick Griffith, is in the ProRodeo Hall of Fame and the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, and his paternal grandmother, Connie Rosenberger Griffith, is in the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. 

Gattlin graduated from Bishop Alemany High School in Los Angeles, California, in 2017. In 2016, he was placed first in the North American Trick Riding Competition in Las Vegas.

He is currently attending the University of California in Los Angeles, with his major being English. He also plays football for the Santa Clarita Warriors.

With his brother, he runs a YouTube channel titled GRIFFITHBROS.

Career

Gattlin made his acting debut in 2002, aged 4, playing a baby in Jason Rodriguez's western drama Reckoning, starring Jason Rodriguez and Stacy Cunningham. In 2007, he was seen as a little boy in the episode "Something Blue" of How I Met Your Mother.

In 2008, Gattlin landed the role for which he is most fondly remembered: "Walter Collins" in Clint Eastwood's Changeling. The film is loosely based on the real-life events of the kidnapping and murder of nine-year-old Walter CollinsAngelina Jolie plays his on-screen mother Christine Collins and Jason Butler Harner plays the culprit — the Canadian serial killer Gordon Stewart Northcott.

Gattlin's other television credits include Eli Stone (2008), Without a Trace (2009), Castle (2010), and Criminal Minds (2010). His other notable films after Changeling are Couples Retreat (2009), The River Why (2010), and Labor Day (2013).

In 2011, in sci-fi Green Lantern, he played the younger version of "Hal Jordan" (played by Ryan Reynolds).

Most recently, in September 2020, he was seen as "Ben" in director John B. Crye's drama Chance, opposite Tanner BuchananMatthew Modine, and Amanda Leighton. He has also finished filming for John Berardo's crime/mystery film Initiation, in which he will portray the character of "Beau Vaughn" alongside Lochlyn MunroYancy Butler, and Amber Pauline Magdesyan.

Commercials

Gattlin has also appeared in television commercials: 

  • Home Depot as Jake/Son
  • Yamaha as Son
  • Mass Mutual as Brother
  • Disney Parks as Boy
  • Burger King (2009) as Boy (3 Commercials)

 

Filmography

Film

YearFilmRoleNotes 
2002ReckoningBaby 
2008ChangelingWalter James Collins, Jr. 
2009UncorkedLucas "Luke" Browning 
Couples RetreatRobert 
The New DaughterSamuel "Sam" James 
2010Blood Done Sign My NameTimothy "Tim" Tyson 
The River WhyBill Bob 
2011Green LanternYoung Harold "Hal" Jordan 
A Golden Christmas 2: The Second TailFreddie Donovan 
2012Under the BedPaulie Hausman 
2013Labor DayHenry 

Television

YearFilmRoleNotes 
2006Untold Stories of the ERBrian Bogert"Life and Limb" 
2007Cold CaseClayton "Clay" Hathaway"Offender" 
How I Met Your MotherBoy"Something Blue" 
MonkMatthew"Mr. Monk and the Wrong Man" 
2008UnhitchedHelmet Boy"Conjoined Twins Pitch No-Hitter" 
Eli StoneYoung Eli Stone"Happy Birthday, Nate" 
2009Eleventh HourNicholas "Nicky" Harris"Miracle" 
Without a TraceTravis Feretti"Undertow" 
SupernaturalJesse Turner"I Believe the Children Are Our Future" 
2010CastleTyler Donegal"Murder Most Fowl" 
Criminal MindsRobert Brooks"Into the Woods" 

Commercials

  • Home Depot as Jake/Son
  • Yamaha as Son
  • Mass Mutual as Brother
  • Disney Parks as Boy
  • Burger King (2009) as Boy (3 Commercials)
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