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, licens…

Directed

1. The Phantom of the Opera (1925) — Director
2. Merry-Go-Round (1923) — Director
3. The Yankee Clipper (1927) — Director
4. Walking Back (1928) — Director
5. The Cat Creeps (1930) — Director
6. Silence (1926) — Director
7. Love Comes Along (1930) — Director
8. The Country Doctor (1927) — Director
9. The Circus of Life (1917) — Director
10. Fires of Youth (1918) — Director
11. The Right to Be Happy (1916) — Director
12. The Fire Flingers (1919) — Director
13. The Millionaire Pirate (1919) — Director
14. Three Faces East (1926) — Director
15. The Desperado (1916) — Director
16. The Leopard Lady (1928) — Director
17. The Girl Who Ran Wild (1922) — Director
18. The Phantom of the Opera (1929) — Director
19. Love and Glory (1924) — Director
20. The Sleeping Lion (1919) — Director
21. Hell's Highroad (1925) — Director
22. Creaking Stairs (1919) — Director
23. The Honey Bee (1920) — Director
24. Midnight Madness (1918) — Director
25. The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918) — Director
26. The Bugler of Algiers (1916) — Director
27. Bettina Loved a Soldier (1916) — Director
28. The Evil Women Do (1916) — Director
29. Naked Hearts (1916) — Director
30. The Gift Girl (1917) — Director
31. The Door Between (1917) — Director
32. The Desire of the Moth (1917) — Director
33. A Kentucky Cinderella (1917) — Director
34. The Savage (1917) — Director
35. The Mysterious Mr. Tiller (1917) — Director
36. Hands Down (1918) — Director
37. Mother o' Mine (1917) — Director
38. Hungry Eyes (1918) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) — Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
2. The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916) — Masaniello
3. Walking Back (1928) — Undetermined Appearance
4. The Desperado (1916) — The Desperado
5. The Pursuit of Hate (1914)
6. The Right to Be Happy (1916) — Ebenezer Scrooge
7. Three Faces East (1926) — The Kaiser
8. Alone in the World (1917)
9. The Fire Flingers (1919) — Richard Hatton / Richard Olwell
10. A Cigarette - That's All (1915) — Bara Yami - the Hindoo Yogi
11. The Spider and Her Web (1914)
12. The Pretty Sister of Jose (1915) — Sebastiano - the Toreador
13. The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918) — The Kaiser
14. Scandal (1915) — Robert Gordon
15. The Desire of the Moth (1917) — John Wesley Pringle
16. Bettina Loved a Soldier (1916) — Jean Reynaud
17. The Bugler of Algiers (1916) — Pierre
18. The Evil Women Do (1916)
19. Naked Hearts (1916) — Cecil
20. The Gift Girl (1917) — Malec
21. A Kentucky Cinderella (1917) — John Silverwood
22. Jewel (1915) — Mr. Evringham
23. The Merchant of Venice (1914)
24. Hands Down (1918) — Tom Flynn
25. Mother o' Mine (1917) — John Standing
26. The Mysterious Mr. Tiller (1917) — Prentice Tiller
27. Hungry Eyes (1918) — John Silver
28. The Lone Star Rush (1915)