Loading amazing content...
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
January 23, 1879
Died
December 27, 1943
Place of Birth
Whangaroa, New Zealand
Also Known As
- Thomas Percival Hayes
Rupert Julian
0.3 Popularity
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
7.8
Undetermined Appearance
Walking Back
1928
0.0
The Kaiser
Three Faces East
1926
7.3
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
0.0
Richard Hatton / Richard Olwell
The Fire Flingers
1919
0.0
John Silver
Hungry Eyes
1918
0.0
Tom Flynn
Hands Down
1918
0.0
The Kaiser
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
1918
0.0
John Wesley Pringle
The Desire of the Moth
1917
0.0
Prentice Tiller
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
1917
0.0
John Standing
Mother o' Mine
1917
Credits
Walking Back
as Undetermined Appearance
1928
7.8
Three Faces East
as The Kaiser
1926
0.0
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
7.3
The Fire Flingers
as Richard Hatton / Richard Olwell
1919
0.0
Hungry Eyes
as John Silver
1918
0.0
Hands Down
as Tom Flynn
1918
0.0
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
as The Kaiser
1918
0.0
The Desire of the Moth
as John Wesley Pringle
1917
0.0
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
as Prentice Tiller
1917
0.0
Mother o' Mine
as John Standing
1917
0.0
A Kentucky Cinderella
as John Silverwood
1917
0.0
The Gift Girl
as Malec
1917
0.0
🎬
Alone in the World
1917
0.0
The Right to Be Happy
as Ebenezer Scrooge
1916
10.0
The Bugler of Algiers
as Pierre
1916
0.0
The Evil Women Do
1916
0.0
Bettina Loved a Soldier
as Jean Reynaud
1916
0.0
Naked Hearts
as Cecil
1916
0.0
🎬
The Desperado
as The Desperado
1916
0.0
The Dumb Girl of Portici
as Masaniello
1916
7.0
Jewel
as Mr. Evringham
1915
0.0
🎬
A Cigarette - That's All
as Bara Yami - the Hindoo Yogi
1915
0.0
Scandal
as Robert Gordon
1915
0.0
The Pretty Sister of Jose
as Sebastiano - the Toreador
1915
0.0
The Lone Star Rush
1915
0.0
🎬
The Pursuit of Hate
1914
0.0
The Spider and Her Web
1914
0.0
The Merchant of Venice
1914
0.0