Rupert Julian

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1879-01-23

Deathday 1943-12-27 (64 years old)

Place of Birth Whangaroa, New Zealand

Also Known As Thomas Percival Hayes

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

Director

1930
The Cat Creeps

as Director

1930
Love Comes Along

as Director

1929
1928
Walking Back

as Director

1928
The Leopard Lady

as Director

1927
The Yankee Clipper

as Director

1927
The Country Doctor

as Director

1926
Three Faces East

as Director

1926
Silence

as Director

1925
1925
Hell's Highroad

as Director

1924
Love and Glory

as Director

1923
Merry-Go-Round

as Director

1922
1919
The Fire Flingers

as Director

1919
1919
The Sleeping Lion

as Director

1919
Creaking Stairs

as Director

1918
Midnight Madness

as Director

1918
Fires of Youth

as Director

1918
Hands Down

as Director

1918
Hungry Eyes

as Director

1917
The Gift Girl

as Director

1917
The Door Between

as Director

1917
1917
The Circus of Life

as Director

1917
1917
The Savage

as Director

1917
Mother o' Mine

as Director

1916
1916
The Desperado

as Director

1916
1916
1916
The Evil Women Do

as Director

1916
Naked Hearts

as Director

Actor

1928
Walking Back

as Undetermined Appearance

1926
Three Faces East

as The Kaiser

1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

1919
The Fire Flingers

as Richard Hatton / Richard Olwell

1918
Hungry Eyes

as John Silver

1918
Hands Down

as Tom Flynn

1917
The Desire of the Moth

as John Wesley Pringle

1917
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller

as Prentice Tiller

1917
Mother o' Mine

as John Standing

1917
A Kentucky Cinderella

as John Silverwood

1917
The Gift Girl

as Malec

1916
The Right to Be Happy

as Ebenezer Scrooge

1916
1916
Bettina Loved a Soldier

as Jean Reynaud

1916
Naked Hearts

as Cecil

1916
The Desperado

as The Desperado

1916
1915
Jewel

as Mr. Evringham

1915
A Cigarette - That's All

as Bara Yami - the Hindoo Yogi

1915
Scandal

as Robert Gordon

1915
The Pretty Sister of Jose

as Sebastiano - the Toreador

Writer

1922
1919
1918
1917
My Little Boy

as Story

1917
1916
Naked Hearts

as Story

Editor

1928
Walking Back

as Editor