Alexander Bauer: Melanie Griffith’s son, and the credits that aren’t his
Alexander Griffith Bauer was born on 22 August 1985 in Los Angeles, the only child of the actors Melanie Griffith and Steven Bauer. He is Dakota Johnson’s older half-brother and Tippi Hedren’s grandson. He has never given an interview and has no public career.
Several pages ranking for his name credit him with work on short films, listing titles and job roles. Those credits belong to a different man with the same name.
Alexander Bauer: quick facts
| Detail | What’s documented |
|---|---|
| Full name | Alexander Griffith Bauer |
| Born | 22 August 1985, Los Angeles |
| Age | 41 |
| Mother | Melanie Griffith |
| Father | Steven Bauer, born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson |
| Grandmother | Tippi Hedren |
| Half-siblings | Dakota Johnson, Stella Banderas, Dylan Bauer |
| Stepbrother | Jesse Johnson |
| Occupation | Not documented |
| Public statements | None |
The film credits belong to someone else
Three pages competing for this name list his profession using specific screen credits: Kazoo’s on First?, This Loneliness, Holding and Orange Vests and Cigarettes. One describes him as film crew working in camera and grip.
Those credits come from an IMDb page belonging to Alexander Bauer (III), a working crew member and writer on independent shorts. He is credited as a gaffer, a second assistant camera and a grip.
That page makes no reference to Melanie Griffith, Steven Bauer, or any connection to the family. IMDb assigns the Roman numeral precisely because it holds several people under this name.
There is a second tell. Two of those pages date Kazoo’s on First? to 2003. IMDb dates it to 2013. They are a decade out on a credit they have already attributed to the wrong person.
The pages also cannot agree on what he does. One says producer and businessman. One says filmmaker and businessman. One says actor and businessman. One says camera and grip. Four descriptions, no source behind any of them, and the only concrete evidence any of them offers points at a stranger.
The honest position is that Alexander Griffith Bauer’s occupation is not publicly documented.
There are at least seven Alexander Bauers
This is worth laying out, because the name is genuinely crowded and search results mix them constantly.
| Who | What they do |
|---|---|
| Alexander Griffith Bauer | Melanie Griffith and Steven Bauer’s son, born 1985 |
| The German politician, born 1972 | Member of the Landtag of Hesse since 2008 |
| Alexander Bauer (III) | Camera and electrical crew on US independent shorts |
| The Munich organist | Composer, Mozarteum-trained, Salzburg Festival |
| The archaeologist | Professor of anthropology at Queens College, CUNY |
| The business academic | Associate professor of applied sciences, Vienna |
| The coach | Olympic and national coach, multiple European and world titles |
Several of these have substantial public records of their own. If you are researching the name, the birth year separates them fastest.
The family
His parents
Melanie Griffith and Steven Bauer met on the set of the television film She’s in the Army Now and married in September 1981. Alexander was born in 1985. They divorced in 1989, when he was four.
Griffith won a Golden Globe and received an Academy Award nomination for Working Girl. Her mother is Tippi Hedren, the actress Hitchcock cast in The Birds and Marnie, which makes Alexander the third generation of that line.
Steven Bauer was born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson in Havana and raised in Miami. He played Manny Ribera opposite Al Pacino in Scarface in 1983 and later appeared as Don Eladio in Breaking Bad.
His half-siblings
- Dakota Johnson, born 4 October 1989, from Griffith’s marriage to Don Johnson. Four years his junior and by far the most famous of the four.
- Stella Banderas, from Griffith’s marriage to Antonio Banderas.
- Dylan Bauer, from Steven Bauer’s marriage to Ingrid Anderson.
- Jesse Johnson, Don Johnson’s son, his stepbrother.
Three marriages on his mother’s side and two on his father’s produced one of the more tangled family trees in Hollywood. He is the only one of the children who never went into the business.
One photograph, 2012
His public appearances are rare enough to list, and one is worth describing because it captures the whole thing.
On 3 June 2012 the family gathered at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank for the opening night of No Way Around But Through. The photograph taken that evening shows Alexander Bauer standing with Antonio Banderas, Jesse Johnson, Dakota Johnson, Tippi Hedren, Melanie Griffith and Stella Banderas.
Three generations, three of his mother’s marriages, and a stepbrother, in one frame. He is at the end of it.
Earlier appearances are similarly sparse. He attended the People’s Choice Awards with Dakota Johnson in January 1997, and the Los Angeles premiere of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace with his mother in 1999. Griffith still posts the occasional photograph of him, which is where most of the recent interest comes from.
What isn’t verified
- His occupation. Four different professions appear across four pages, and the only cited evidence belongs to a different man.
- His birth date, on one page. One site gives 18 March 1985. Every other source says 22 August.
- His star sign, on another. One page gives his birth date as 22 August and then calls him a Virgo. It is Leo.
- That Don Johnson adopted him. One page states this, hedged as reported, and nothing else carries it.
- A net worth. Figures from $1 million to $5 million appear in his net worth. He has no public business or income.
- His height, weight, religion and sexual orientation. Published in a profile table by at least two sites about a man who has never spoken publicly.
- His social media. An account is named in one site’s structured data. It has not been confirmed as his and does not belong in a search result.
Frequently asked questions
Who is he?
The only child of actors Melanie Griffith and Steven Bauer, born in Los Angeles in August 1985.
Is he Dakota Johnson’s brother?
Her half-brother. They share a mother, and he is four years older.
What does he do for a living?
Not publicly documented. The film credits attributed to him online belong to a different Alexander Bauer.
Who are his half-siblings?
Dakota Johnson and Stella Banderas through his mother, Dylan Bauer through his father, plus stepbrother Jesse Johnson.
Is Tippi Hedren his grandmother?
Yes. Melanie Griffith is Hedren’s daughter.
How old is he?
He turned 41 in August 2026. Pages still listing him at 40 are out of date.
Is he an actor?
No credits support it. One page calls him an actor with nothing behind the claim.
Conclusion
The pages competing for this name build a career out of an IMDb page that belongs to someone else, then attach a net worth to it and a set of body measurements.
What is documented is a man born into an unusually crowded Hollywood family who has spent 41 years staying out of it. He turns up in a handful of photographs, three of them decades apart, standing at the edge of the group. That is the whole record, and there is no reason to think he wanted a larger one.
JacksonPadilla is a writer at Around Celebrities, covering celebrity families, relationships, biographies, and the stories behind the stars. With a focus on clear and engaging storytelling, Kole helps readers discover the people and connections beyond the spotlight.
