Rupert Julian

Rupert Julian

Born: January 23, 1879
Died: December 27, 1943
in Whangaroa, New Zealand
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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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Walking Back
Title: Walking Back
Character: Undetermined Appearance
Released: May 21, 1928
Type: Movie
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
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Three Faces East
Title: Three Faces East
Character: The Kaiser
Released: February 3, 1926
Type: Movie
A spy story that takes place during World War I.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Title: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Character: Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1925
Type: Movie
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
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The Fire Flingers
Title: The Fire Flingers
Character: Richard Hatton / Richard Olwell
Released: April 21, 1919
Type: Movie
A poor man assumes the identity of a wealthy look-alike after accidentally killing him; his wife prefers the new, non-abusive version and falls in love him.
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Hungry Eyes
Title: Hungry Eyes
Character: John Silver
Released: March 11, 1918
Type: Movie
Ex-convict Dale Revenal arrives at Dudley Appleton's ranch bearing a letter of introduction from John Silver, Appleton's old friend. Appleton hires Dale, who, through his winning manner, soon wins the respect of the ranch hands and the love of the ranch owner's daughter Mary Jane. Believing himself unworthy of her, Dale tells Mary Jane that he has a wife and child in Arizona, and she reluctantly agrees to marry Jack Nelda, a local rancher. Nelda realizes that Mary Jane is still in love with Dale and plots with Bessie Dupont and her brother Pinto to kill him.
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Hands Down
Title: Hands Down
Character: Tom Flynn
Released: February 11, 1918
Type: Movie
Miner Dan Stuyvesant finally strikes it rich, but on his way to report his claim, he is shot. When Jack Dedlow, the head of a gang of outlaws, hears this news, he rides to Stuyvesant's cabin intending to secure the claim for himself. There the outlaws find Stuyvesant's daughter Hilda, the sweetheart of Tom Flynn, and are about to draw cards for her when Dago Sam pulls out his guns and spirits her out the door. Because Tom is his only friend, Sam determines to protect Hilda from the gang, but when Tom suspiciously questions his intentions toward Hilda, Sam decides to live up to the town's poor opinion of him.
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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
Title: The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
Character: The Kaiser
Released: January 2, 1918
Type: Movie
A propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, and fanciful prediction of the nature of the war's end.
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The Desire of the Moth
Title: The Desire of the Moth
Character: John Wesley Pringle
Released: October 22, 1917
Type: Movie
The Desire of the Moth is a 1917 American silent western film directed by Rupert Julian
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The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
Title: The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
Character: Prentice Tiller
Released: September 17, 1917
Type: Movie
Police headquarters has been plagued by a series of robberies, culminating in the theft of a priceless necklace smuggled from Europe. The detectives are on the track of a gang led by master thief Ramon Mordant and his accomplice known as "the Face" because of his twisted and hideous countenance.
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Mother o' Mine
Title: Mother o' Mine
Character: John Standing
Released: September 2, 1917
Type: Movie
Mrs. Standing, an old-fashioned country mother, sacrifices to put her son John through college so that he might have a better life. Upon completing school, John goes to the city where his financial success blinds him to the basic values taught to him by his mother.
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A Kentucky Cinderella
Title: A Kentucky Cinderella
Character: John Silverwood
Released: June 25, 1917
Type: Movie
After the death of her father, a young girl goes to live with her uncle in Kentucky. She immediately comes into conflict with her uncle's shrewish wife.
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The Gift Girl
Title: The Gift Girl
Character: Malec
Released: March 26, 1917
Type: Movie
An English orphan, raised by a Persian household, runs away to Paris.
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Alone in the World
Title: Alone in the World
Released: January 3, 1917
Type: Movie
Bobby's mother dies and leaves him to care for the baby.
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The Right to Be Happy
Title: The Right to Be Happy
Character: Ebenezer Scrooge
Released: December 25, 1916
Type: Movie
Considered to be lost.
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The Bugler of Algiers
Title: The Bugler of Algiers
Character: Pierre
Released: November 27, 1916
Type: Movie
Gabrielle Picard (Elda Hall) and Pierre Dupont (Rupert Julian) are lovers in a small French village in the early 1870s; Gabrielle's brother Anatole (Kingsley Benedict) is Pierre's best friend. The two young men are called to service by their country and go to Algiers. Anatole becomes the bugler and one day when he is commanded to sound the retreat, he sounds for the troops to charge instead. Anatole becomes a hero because of his action, but when the two men make their victorious return home, they find the Picard home ransacked and Gabrielle gone.
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The Evil Women Do
Title: The Evil Women Do
Released: September 25, 1916
Type: Movie
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Bettina Loved a Soldier
Title: Bettina Loved a Soldier
Character: Jean Reynaud
Released: August 14, 1916
Type: Movie
Very wealthy Bettina is also very reluctant to get married. She changes her mind in a hurry when she meets Reynaud, the nephew of Abbe Constantin, the poverty-stricken religious leader of the small French village of Longueval.
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Naked Hearts
Title: Naked Hearts
Character: Cecil
Released: May 29, 1916
Type: Movie
Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Maud's domineering brother, disapproves of a marriage between them. Instead, he has chosen English nobleman Lord Lovelace as the ideal fiancé for Maud. On the night that the engagement is to be announced, however, she elopes with Cecil. The runaways are caught, though, after which, because of her loyalty to her brother, Maud sends Cecil away. When the Civil War begins, Howard, Lovelace and Cecil all volunteer, and are all soon reported killed in action. Heartbroken, Maud decides to become a nun, and takes her vows just moments before Cecil, whose death was mistakenly reported, returns from the battlefield and comes to the convent to ask her to marry him.
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The Desperado
Title: The Desperado
Character: The Desperado
Released: March 22, 1916
Type: Movie
The Desperado
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
Title: The Dumb Girl of Portici
Character: Masaniello
Released: January 30, 1916
Type: Movie
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
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Jewel
Title: Jewel
Character: Mr. Evringham
Released: August 30, 1915
Type: Movie
When her husband dies and leaves her penniless, Mrs. Lawrence Evringham moves in with her wealthy but grim father-in-law and schemes to marry Eloise, her daughter, to the rich Dr. Ballard.
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A Cigarette - That's All
Title: A Cigarette - That's All
Character: Bara Yami - the Hindoo Yogi
Released: August 10, 1915
Type: Movie
A Cigarette - That's All
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Scandal
Title: Scandal
Character: Robert Gordon
Released: July 10, 1915
Type: Movie
The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip.
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The Pretty Sister of Jose
Title: The Pretty Sister of Jose
Character: Sebastiano - the Toreador
Released: May 31, 1915
Type: Movie
Pepita, a radiant and merry Spanish beauty, and her playful brother Jose, witness their mother, whose faded beauty led her husband to abandon her for another, plunge a dagger into her breast.
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The Pursuit of Hate
Title: The Pursuit of Hate
Released: June 14, 1914
Type: Movie
Diana Grave's husband has left her, preferring any life to that of living with a woman who is not congenial to him. Howbeit, her husband gone is a different matter than her husband present. She commissioned a detective to locate him.
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The Spider and Her Web
Title: The Spider and Her Web
Released: March 26, 1914
Type: Movie
The Spider and Her Web is a 1914 silent film.
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The Merchant of Venice
Title: The Merchant of Venice
Released: February 1, 1914
Type: Movie
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.