Rupert Julian
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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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Movies (50)
The Cat Creeps
1930 · Director
Love Comes Along
1930 · Director
The Phantom of the Opera
1929 · Director
Walking Back
1928 · Undetermined Appearance, Director, Editor
The Leopard Lady
1928 · Director
The Country Doctor
1927 · Director
The Yankee Clipper
1927 · Director
Silence
1926 · Director
Three Faces East
1926 · The Kaiser, Director
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925 · Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Hell's Highroad
1925 · Director
The Phantom of the Opera
1925 · Director
Love and Glory
1924 · Director
Merry-Go-Round
1923 · Director
The Girl Who Ran Wild
1922 · Director, Writer
The Honey Bee
1920 · Director, Scenario Writer
The Sleeping Lion
1919 · Director
The Fire Flingers
1919 · Richard Hatton / Richard Olwell, Director
The Millionaire Pirate
1919 · Director
Creaking Stairs
1919 · Director, Story
Fires of Youth
1918 · Story, Director
Midnight Madness
1918 · Director
Hungry Eyes
1918 · John Silver, Director
Hands Down
1918 · Tom Flynn, Director
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
1918 · The Kaiser, Director
My Little Boy
1917 · Story
The Door Between
1917 · Director
The Savage
1917 · Director
The Desire of the Moth
1917 · John Wesley Pringle, Director
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
1917 · Prentice Tiller, Director
Mother o' Mine
1917 · John Standing, Director, Story
A Kentucky Cinderella
1917 · John Silverwood, Director
The Circus of Life
1917 · Director
The Gift Girl
1917 · Malec, Director
Alone in the World
1917
The Right to Be Happy
1916 · Ebenezer Scrooge, Director
The Bugler of Algiers
1916 · Pierre, Director
The Evil Women Do
1916 · Director
Bettina Loved a Soldier
1916 · Jean Reynaud, Director
Naked Hearts
1916 · Cecil, Director, Story
The Desperado
1916 · The Desperado, Director
The Dumb Girl of Portici
1916 · Masaniello
Jewel
1915 · Mr. Evringham
A Cigarette - That's All
1915 · Bara Yami - the Hindoo Yogi
Scandal
1915 · Robert Gordon
The Pretty Sister of Jose
1915 · Sebastiano - the Toreador
The Lone Star Rush
1915
The Pursuit of Hate
1914
The Spider and Her Web
1914
The Merchant of Venice
1914
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