Rupert Julian
Director
Biography
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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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Filmography
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) 1925
The Dumb Girl of Portici
as Masaniello 1916
Walking Back
as Undetermined Appearance 1928
The Right to Be Happy
as Ebenezer Scrooge 1916
A Cigarette - That's All
as Bara Yami - the Hindoo Yogi 1915
The Desperado
as The Desperado 1916
The Spider and Her Web
1914
The Pursuit of Hate
1914
The Pretty Sister of Jose
as Sebastiano - the Toreador 1915
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
as The Kaiser 1918
Three Faces East
as The Kaiser 1926
Alone in the World
1917
Scandal
as Robert Gordon 1915
The Desire of the Moth
as John Wesley Pringle 1917
Bettina Loved a Soldier
as Jean Reynaud 1916
The Bugler of Algiers
as Pierre 1916
The Evil Women Do
1916