Rupert Julian

Known For

Directing

Born

Jan 23, 1879

Died

Dec 27, 1943

Place of Birth

Whangaroa, New Zealand

Credits

50 titles

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.

Known For

Filmography

1930

The Cat Creeps

Director

Movie
1930

Love Comes Along

Director

Movie
1929

The Phantom of the Opera

Director

Movie
1928

Walking Back

Undetermined Appearance

Movie
1928

The Leopard Lady

Director

Movie
1927

The Country Doctor

Director

Movie
1927

The Yankee Clipper

Director

Movie
1926

Silence

Director

Movie
1926

Three Faces East

The Kaiser

Movie
1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

Movie
1925

Hell's Highroad

Director

Movie
1925

The Phantom of the Opera

Director

Movie
1924

Love and Glory

Director

Movie
1923

Merry-Go-Round

Director

Movie
1922

The Girl Who Ran Wild

Director

Movie
1920

The Honey Bee

Director

Movie
1919

The Sleeping Lion

Director

Movie
1919

The Fire Flingers

Richard Hatton / Richard Olwell

Movie
1919

Creaking Stairs

Director

Movie
1919

The Millionaire Pirate

Director

Movie
1918

Fires of Youth

Story

Movie
1918

Midnight Madness

Director

Movie
1918

Hungry Eyes

John Silver

Movie
1918

Hands Down

Tom Flynn

Movie
1918

The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin

The Kaiser

Movie
1917

My Little Boy

Story

Movie
1917

The Door Between

Director

Movie
1917

The Savage

Director

Movie
1917

The Desire of the Moth

John Wesley Pringle

Movie
1917

The Mysterious Mr. Tiller

Prentice Tiller

Movie
1917

Mother o' Mine

John Standing

Movie
1917

A Kentucky Cinderella

John Silverwood

Movie
1917

The Circus of Life

Director

Movie
1917

The Gift Girl

Malec

Movie
1917

Alone in the World

Movie
1916

The Right to Be Happy

Ebenezer Scrooge

Movie
1916

The Bugler of Algiers

Pierre

Movie
1916

The Evil Women Do

Movie
1916

Bettina Loved a Soldier

Jean Reynaud

Movie
1916

Naked Hearts

Cecil

Movie
1916

The Desperado

The Desperado

Movie
1916

The Dumb Girl of Portici

Masaniello

Movie
1915

Jewel

Mr. Evringham

Movie
1915

A Cigarette - That's All

Bara Yami - the Hindoo Yogi

Movie
1915

Scandal

Robert Gordon

Movie
1915

The Pretty Sister of Jose

Sebastiano - the Toreador

Movie
1915

The Lone Star Rush

Movie
1914

The Pursuit of Hate

Movie
1914

The Spider and Her Web

Movie
1914

The Merchant of Venice

Movie