1879-01-23 Whangaroa, New Zealand
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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Walking Back | Undetermined Appearance | 1928-05-21 |
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Three Faces East | The Kaiser | 1926-02-03 |
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
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The Fire Flingers | Richard Hatton / Richard Olwell | 1919-04-21 |
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Hungry Eyes | John Silver | 1918-03-11 |
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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin | The Kaiser | 1918-01-02 |
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Hands Down | Tom Flynn | 1918-02-11 |
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A Kentucky Cinderella | John Silverwood | 1917-06-25 |
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The Mysterious Mr. Tiller | Prentice Tiller | 1917-09-17 |
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The Gift Girl | Malec | 1917-03-26 |
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Mother o' Mine | John Standing | 1917-09-02 |
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The Desire of the Moth | John Wesley Pringle | 1917-10-22 |
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Alone in the World | 1917-01-03 | |
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Bettina Loved a Soldier | Jean Reynaud | 1916-08-14 |
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The Right to Be Happy | Ebenezer Scrooge | 1916-12-25 |
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The Bugler of Algiers | Pierre | 1916-11-27 |
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The Evil Women Do | 1916-09-25 | |
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The Dumb Girl of Portici | Masaniello | 1916-01-30 |
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Naked Hearts | Cecil | 1916-05-29 |
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The Desperado | The Desperado | 1916-03-22 |
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The Pretty Sister of Jose | Sebastiano - the Toreador | 1915-05-31 |
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Jewel | Mr. Evringham | 1915-08-30 |
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A Cigarette - That's All | Bara Yami - the Hindoo Yogi | 1915-08-10 |
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Scandal | Robert Gordon | 1915-07-10 |
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The Merchant of Venice | 1914-02-01 | |
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The Pursuit of Hate | 1914-06-14 | |
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The Spider and Her Web | 1914-03-26 |
