Rupert Julian
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rupert Julian (25 January 1879 – 27 December 1943) was the first New Zealand cinema actor, director, writer and producer. Born Thomas Percival Hayes in Whangaroa, New Zealand, Son of John Daly Hayes (JNR)and Eliza Harriet Hayes. Rupert Julian performed on stage and in film both in his native country and Australia before emigrating to the United States in 1911, where he started his career as an actor in Universal silent movies. He turned to directing in 1915, often directing his wife Elsie Jane Wilson, but his work was merely routine until he was assigned to complete Merry-Go-Round in 1923 when director Erich von Stroheim was fired from it. In 1924, he directed Lon Chaney in the first cut of The Phantom of the Opera, which was largely revisited at the request of the production. He soon fell into a professional decline after the advent of sound, and after directing The Cat Creeps and Love Comes Along (both in 1930), his career faded. Rupert Julian died in Hollywood, California at the age of 64 and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rupert Julian, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (50)
The Cat Creeps
Director (Directing)
1930
Love Comes Along
Director (Directing)
1930
The Phantom of the Opera
Director (Directing)
1929
Walking Back
as Undetermined Appearance
1928
The Leopard Lady
Director (Directing)
1928
The Country Doctor
Director (Directing)
1927
The Yankee Clipper
Director (Directing)
1927
Silence
Director (Directing)
1926
Three Faces East
as The Kaiser
1926
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
The Phantom of the Opera
Director (Directing)
1925
Hell's Highroad
Director (Directing)
1925
Love and Glory
Director (Directing)
1924
Merry-Go-Round
Director (Directing)
1923
The Girl Who Ran Wild
Director (Directing)
1922
The Honey Bee
Director (Directing)
1920
The Sleeping Lion
Director (Directing)
1919
The Fire Flingers
as Richard Hatton / Richard Olwell
1919
The Millionaire Pirate
Director (Directing)
1919
Creaking Stairs
Director (Directing)
1919
Fires of Youth
Story (Writing)
1918
Midnight Madness
Director (Directing)
1918
Hungry Eyes
as John Silver
1918
Hands Down
as Tom Flynn
1918
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
as The Kaiser
1918
My Little Boy
Story (Writing)
1917
The Door Between
Director (Directing)
1917
The Savage
Director (Directing)
1917
The Desire of the Moth
as John Wesley Pringle
1917
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
as Prentice Tiller
1917
Mother o' Mine
as John Standing
1917
A Kentucky Cinderella
as John Silverwood
1917
The Circus of Life
Director (Directing)
1917
The Gift Girl
as Malec
1917
Alone in the World
1917
The Right to Be Happy
as Ebenezer Scrooge
1916
The Bugler of Algiers
as Pierre
1916
The Evil Women Do
1916
Bettina Loved a Soldier
as Jean Reynaud
1916
Naked Hearts
as Cecil
1916
The Desperado
as The Desperado
1916
The Dumb Girl of Portici
as Masaniello
1916
Jewel
as Mr. Evringham
1915
A Cigarette - That's All
as Bara Yami - the Hindoo Yogi
1915
Scandal
as Robert Gordon
1915
The Pretty Sister of Jose
as Sebastiano - the Toreador
1915
The Lone Star Rush
1915
The Pursuit of Hate
1914
The Spider and Her Web
1914
The Merchant of Venice
1914