SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Peter Griffith, father of actress Melanie Griffith, died Monday of complications from emphysema. He was 67.
Griffith was successful in advertising and real estate development and had been a child actor, his family said.
Griffith's actress-daughter Melanie, star of "Something Wild" and "Working Girl" was born in New York in 1957. Her mother is actress Tippi Hedren, star of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and "Marnie."