Rupert Julian (25 January 1879 â€" 27 December 1943) was a New Zealand
cinema actor, director, writer and producer.Born Thomas Percival Hayes
in Whangaroa, New Zealand, son of John Daly Hayes (Jr) and Eliza
Harriet Hayes. Rupert Julian performed on stage in his native country
and Australia before emigrating to the United States in 1911, where he
started his career as an actor at the Daly Theatre in New York and
touring with Tyrone Power, Sr., and then worked in silent movies. He
turned to directing in 1915, often directing his wife Elsie Jane
Wilson (also a director), and earned a substantial sum for his film
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, which he wrote, produced, directed,
and starred in the title role. This made him a star in Hollywood at
the time, and opened doors to larger projects with Universal
Studios.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 Phantom of the Opera, but left the production
shortly before it was released. The studio hired another director to
complete the filming, and changed the ending. Julian moved to Cecil B.
DeMille's Producers Distributing Corporation for a series of films,
but after directing The Cat Creeps and Love Comes Along (both in
1930), his career faded.
cinema actor, director, writer and producer.Born Thomas Percival Hayes
in Whangaroa, New Zealand, son of John Daly Hayes (Jr) and Eliza
Harriet Hayes. Rupert Julian performed on stage in his native country
and Australia before emigrating to the United States in 1911, where he
started his career as an actor at the Daly Theatre in New York and
touring with Tyrone Power, Sr., and then worked in silent movies. He
turned to directing in 1915, often directing his wife Elsie Jane
Wilson (also a director), and earned a substantial sum for his film
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, which he wrote, produced, directed,
and starred in the title role. This made him a star in Hollywood at
the time, and opened doors to larger projects with Universal
Studios.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 Phantom of the Opera, but left the production
shortly before it was released. The studio hired another director to
complete the filming, and changed the ending. Julian moved to Cecil B.
DeMille's Producers Distributing Corporation for a series of films,
but after directing The Cat Creeps and Love Comes Along (both in
1930), his career faded.
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