Rupert Julian is best remembered for directing Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera.
11 Facts About Rupert Julian
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Rupert Julian was born Thomas Percival Hayes in Whangaroa, New Zealand, son of John Daly Hayes and Eliza Harriet Hayes.
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Rupert Julian's father was a rancher who raised cattle and sheep.
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Rupert Julian's parents had him educated in preparation for becoming a Roman Catholic priest, but he went his own way.
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Rupert Julian volunteered to serve in the British army during the Boer War, and during his two years' service he was captured twice.
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Rupert Julian worked as a sailor, a tea salesman, and engineer of a donkey engine.
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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.
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Rupert Julian turned to directing in 1914, often directing his wife Elsie Jane Wilson, 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.
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Rupert Julian was assigned to complete Merry-Go-Round in 1923 when director Erich von Stroheim was fired from it.
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On 27 December 1943, Rupert Julian died at his home in Hollywood, California, at the age of 64.
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Rupert Julian was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California, in 1943.