Rupert Julian
Also Known As: Thomas Percival Hayes
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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Whangaroa, New Zealand
Adult: No
Birthday: January 23, 1879
Age: 146 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 27, 1943
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A Cigarette - That's All
Overview: A Cigarette - That's All
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-10
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The Desperado
Overview: Seeking vengeance after they massacre a saloon full of people a man embarks on a journey to kill the notorious outlaw, Bucho, and his gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-03-22
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The Spider and Her Web
Overview: The story concerns the reformation of a fast woman who runs a gambling establishment. Her one fear is of death and her regeneration is brought about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-03-26
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The Pursuit of Hate
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-06-14
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
Overview: Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-01-30
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The Right to Be Happy
Overview: Considered to be lost.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-12-25
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The Pretty Sister of Jose
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-31
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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
Overview: 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.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-01-02
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Three Faces East
Overview: A spy story that takes place during World War I.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-02-03
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Alone in the World
Overview: Bobby's mother dies and leaves him to care for the baby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-01-03
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Walking Back
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-05-21
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Scandal
Overview: The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-07-10
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The Desire of the Moth
Overview: The Desire of the Moth is a 1917 American silent western film directed by Rupert Julian
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-10-22
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Bettina Loved a Soldier
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-08-14
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The Bugler of Algiers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-27
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The Evil Women Do
Overview: Paris vamp Ernestine Bergot, posing as wealthy Englishwoman Sarah Brandon, goes to work on aging Count Ville Handry after first warming up on Malgat, a banker whom she ruined. Ernestine convinces the count to marry her despite his daughter's strenuous objections and then gains complete control of his fortune. Her steady milking of his funds makes the count decide to kill himself, but just as he is about to do it, Malgat, who has managed to catch up with Ernestine, exposes her to the authorities. Then, instead of the count, it is Ernestine who commits suicide rather than submit to arrest. A lost film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-25
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Naked Hearts
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-05-29
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The Gift Girl
Overview: An English orphan, raised by a Persian household, runs away to Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-03-26
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A Kentucky Cinderella
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-06-25
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Jewel
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-08-30
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The Merchant of Venice
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-02-01
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-12-25
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Hands Down
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-11
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Mother o' Mine
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-02
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The Mysterious Mr. Tiller
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-09-17
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Hungry Eyes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-03-11
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The Fire Flingers
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-04-21
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