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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.
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Rupert Julian Biography / Wiki
| Name | Rupert Julian |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Whangaroa, New Zealand |
| Date of Birth | 1879-01-25 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 64 |
| Deathday | 1943-12-27 |
Rupert Julian Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Right to Be Happy | Ebenezer Scrooge | 1916-12-25 | Considered to be lost…. |
| The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin | The Kaiser | 1918-01-02 | A propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, an… |
| A Kentucky Cinderella | John Silverwood | 1917-06-25 | After the death of her father, a young girl goes to live with her uncle in Kentucky. She immediately comes into conflict with her uncle’s shrewish wif… |
| Mother o’ Mine | John Standing | 1917-09-02 | Mrs. Standing, an old-fashioned country mother, sacrifices to put her son John through college so that he might have a better life. Upon completing sc… |
| The Fire Flingers | Richard Hatton / Richard Olwell | 1919-04-21 | A poor man assumes the identity of a wealthy look-alike after accidentally killing him; his wife prefers the new, non-abusive version and falls in lov… |
| The Desperado | The Desperado | 1916-03-22 | The Desperado… |
| The Dumb Girl of Portici | Masaniello | 1916-01-30 | Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe…. |
| Naked Hearts | Cecil | 1916-05-29 | Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Maud’s domineering brother, disapproves of a marriag… |
| Jewel | Mr. Evringham | 1915-08-30 | When her husband dies and leaves her penniless, Mrs. Lawrence Evringham moves in with her wealthy but grim father-in-law and schemes to marry Eloise, … |
| The Mysterious Mr. Tiller | Prentice Tiller | 1917-09-17 | Police headquarters has been plagued by a series of robberies, culminating in the theft of a priceless necklace smuggled from Europe. The detectives a… |
| Alone in the World | 1917-01-03 | Bobby’s mother dies and leaves him to care for the baby…. | |
| Scandal | Robert Gordon | 1915-07-10 | The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip…. |
| The Evil Women Do | 1916-09-25 | … | |
| The Bugler of Algiers | Pierre | 1916-11-27 | Gabrielle Picard (Elda Hall) and Pierre Dupont (Rupert Julian) are lovers in a small French village in the early 1870s; Gabrielle’s brother Anatole (K… |
| Bettina Loved a Soldier | Jean Reynaud | 1916-08-14 | Very wealthy Bettina is also very reluctant to get married. She changes her mind in a hurry when she meets Reynaud, the nephew of Abbe Constantin, the… |
| The Gift Girl | Malec | 1917-03-26 | An English orphan, raised by Mohammedans, runs away to Paris…. |
| Hungry Eyes | John Silver | 1918-03-11 | Ex-convict Dale Revenal arrives at Dudley Appleton’s ranch bearing a letter of introduction from John Silver, Appleton’s old friend. Appleton hires Da… |
| A Cigarette – That’s All | Bara Yami – the Hindoo Yogi | 1915-08-10 | A Cigarette – That’s All… |
| The Desire of the Moth | John Wesley Pringle | 1917-10-22 | The Desire of the Moth is a 1917 American silent western film directed by Rupert Julian… |
| The Merchant of Venice | 1914-02-01 | A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he’s in love with Portia. Portia’s fath… | |
| Hands Down | Tom Flynn | 1918-02-11 | Miner Dan Stuyvesant finally strikes it rich, but on his way to report his claim, he is shot. When Jack Dedlow, the head of a gang of outlaws, hears t… |
| The Pursuit of Hate | 1914-06-14 | Diana Grave’s husband has left her, preferring any life to that of living with a woman who is not congenial to him. Howbeit, her husband gone is a dif… | |
| The Spider and Her Web | 1914-03-26 | The Spider and Her Web is a 1914 silent film…. | |
| The Pretty Sister of Jose | Sebastiano – the Toreador | 1915-05-31 | Pepita, a radiant and merry Spanish beauty, and her playful brother Jose, witness their mother, whose faded beauty led her husband to abandon her for … |
| Three Faces East | The Kaiser | 1926-02-03 | A spy story that takes place during World War I…. |
| Walking Back | Undetermined Appearance | 1928-05-21 | Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher “borrows” a neighbor’s car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A… |
| Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 | Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy,… |
Rupert Julian Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Director | 1925-09-22 | A grotesquely disfigured composer known as “The Phantom” haunts Paris’ opera house, where he’s secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. L… |
| The Cat Creeps | Director | 1930-11-10 | Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion…. |
| Merry-Go-Round | Director | 1923-07-01 | A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of … |
| The Right to Be Happy | Director | 1916-12-25 | Considered to be lost…. |
| Love Comes Along | Director | 1930-01-05 | An American sailor comes to a seedy banana republic, and finds a fellow yank, a stranded girl, as a saloon singer. They fall in love, but a misunderst… |
| The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin | Director | 1918-01-02 | A propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, an… |
| The Yankee Clipper | Director | 1927-05-07 | A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right to transport Chinese tea…. |
| The Country Doctor | Director | 1927-08-22 | A country doctor helps a young couple to elope, and comes near to losing his practice and his happiness through the hostility of the boy’s father…. |
| Walking Back | Director | 1928-05-21 | Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher “borrows” a neighbor’s car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A… |
| The Leopard Lady | Director | 1928-02-22 | Jacqueline Logan stars as Paula, a beautiful and fearless circus leopard trainer. Working hand-in-glove with the police, Paula joins a circus where se… |
| Silence | Director | 1926-04-25 | Jim Warren, a crook, is married to Norma, but there was a flaw in their marriage papers and he must marry her gain to protect their unborn child. He r… |
| Bettina Loved a Soldier | Director | 1916-08-14 | Very wealthy Bettina is also very reluctant to get married. She changes her mind in a hurry when she meets Reynaud, the nephew of Abbe Constantin, the… |
| The Bugler of Algiers | Director | 1916-11-27 | Gabrielle Picard (Elda Hall) and Pierre Dupont (Rupert Julian) are lovers in a small French village in the early 1870s; Gabrielle’s brother Anatole (K… |
| Naked Hearts | Director | 1916-05-29 | Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Maud’s domineering brother, disapproves of a marriag… |
| The Evil Women Do | Director | 1916-09-25 | … |
| The Door Between | Director | 1917-12-10 | The Door Between was based on Anthony the Absolute, a novel by Samuel Merwyn. The story begins in Japan, where American musicologist Anthony Eckert (M… |
| The Desire of the Moth | Director | 1917-10-22 | The Desire of the Moth is a 1917 American silent western film directed by Rupert Julian… |
| The Gift Girl | Director | 1917-03-26 | An English orphan, raised by Mohammedans, runs away to Paris…. |
| The Circus of Life | Director | 1917-06-04 | A man is tormented by the thought that his wife’s child might not be his…. |
| Fires of Youth | Director | 1918-08-26 | Lucille, a beautiful and romantic young woman, marries John Linforth, a wealthy businessman, who is twice her age, and too distracted by his business … |
| A Kentucky Cinderella | Director | 1917-06-25 | After the death of her father, a young girl goes to live with her uncle in Kentucky. She immediately comes into conflict with her uncle’s shrewish wif… |
| The Savage | Director | 1917-11-19 | When Marie Louise, the daughter of the town factor, returns home from school, Julio Sandoval, a reckless young half-breed ruled by his animal instinct… |
| The Sleeping Lion | Director | 1919-06-23 | Italian potter Tony adopts an Italian waif, little Tony, and takes him from New York to the West to realize a long-held dream of owning a ranch…. |
| The Mysterious Mr. Tiller | Director | 1917-09-17 | Police headquarters has been plagued by a series of robberies, culminating in the theft of a priceless necklace smuggled from Europe. The detectives a… |
| Hell’s Highroad | Director | 1925-10-18 | Judy Nichols (Leatrice Joy), a poor girl from Chicago, has decided she cannot marry without money. Her sweetheart, Ronald McKane, a struggling civil e… |
| Hands Down | Director | 1918-02-11 | Miner Dan Stuyvesant finally strikes it rich, but on his way to report his claim, he is shot. When Jack Dedlow, the head of a gang of outlaws, hears t… |
| Mother o’ Mine | Director | 1917-09-02 | Mrs. Standing, an old-fashioned country mother, sacrifices to put her son John through college so that he might have a better life. Upon completing sc… |
| Creaking Stairs | Director | 1919-02-10 | Dearie Lane refuses to marry Fred Millard, whom she loves, because of her previous affair with roué Mark Winfield. When she confesses, Fred forgives … |
| Hungry Eyes | Director | 1918-03-11 | Ex-convict Dale Revenal arrives at Dudley Appleton’s ranch bearing a letter of introduction from John Silver, Appleton’s old friend. Appleton hires Da… |
| The Fire Flingers | Director | 1919-04-21 | A poor man assumes the identity of a wealthy look-alike after accidentally killing him; his wife prefers the new, non-abusive version and falls in lov… |
| The Millionaire Pirate | Director | 1919-02-10 | In the early eighteenth century, pirate captain Jean Lafitte fights a rival pirate and wins a treasure and a beautiful female captive. Although the gi… |
| The Desperado | Director | 1916-03-22 | The Desperado… |
| Midnight Madness | Director | 1918-06-08 | In the act of robbing a set of rare jewels from a museum, a robber is wounded in the hand. Prentice Tiller, while dressing a wound in his hand, overhe… |
| Three Faces East | Director | 1926-02-03 | A spy story that takes place during World War I…. |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Naked Hearts | Story | 1916-05-29 | Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Maud’s domineering brother, disapproves of a marriag… |
| Fires of Youth | Story | 1918-08-26 | Lucille, a beautiful and romantic young woman, marries John Linforth, a wealthy businessman, who is twice her age, and too distracted by his business … |
| My Little Boy | Story | 1917-12-17 | After Fred, an orphan raised by his wealthy Uncle Oliver marries Clara over his uncle’s objections, the two men become estranged. When Fred and Clara’… |
| Mother o’ Mine | Story | 1917-09-02 | Mrs. Standing, an old-fashioned country mother, sacrifices to put her son John through college so that he might have a better life. Upon completing sc… |
| Creaking Stairs | Story | 1919-02-10 | Dearie Lane refuses to marry Fred Millard, whom she loves, because of her previous affair with roué Mark Winfield. When she confesses, Fred forgives … |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Walking Back | Editor | 1928-05-21 | Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher “borrows” a neighbor’s car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A… |
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