Arthur Rooke was a British
actor
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and
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...
of the
silent era
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...
.
Rooke had worked in the theatre for many years before he went into films. He initially co-directed several films with
A.E. Coleby
Albert Ernest Coleby (1876 – 15 July 1930) was a British film director, actor and screenwriter of the silent era.
Selected filmography Director
* ''Peg Woffington'' (1912)
* '' Mysteries of London'' (1915)
* '' The Lure of Drink'' (1915)
* ''K ...
, but later began directing films by himself. By the early 1920s he was one of the more successful British film directors.
Selected filmography
Director
* ''
Thelma
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'' (1918)
* ''
God's Clay'' (1919)
* ''
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'' (1920)
* ''
The Lure of Crooning Water
''The Lure of Crooning Water'' is a 1920 British silent comedy romance film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Guy Newall, Ivy Duke and Hugh Buckler. It is adapted from a novel by Marion Hill and was one of several rural romances directed by ...
'' (1920)
* ''
A Sporting Double'' (1922)
* ''
Weavers of Fortune
''Weavers of Fortune'' is a 1922 British silent sports film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Henry Vibart, Dacia and Derek Glynne.Low p.475
Cast
* Henry Vibart as Jackson
* Dacia as Minna Vandyck
* Derek Glynne as Tom Winter
* Myrt ...
'' (1922)
* ''
A Bachelor's Baby'' (1922)
* ''
The Sporting Instinct
''The Sporting Instinct'' is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Lilian Douglas, Joseph R. Tozer and Mickey Brantford.Low p.457
Cast
* Lilian Douglas as June Crisp
* Joseph R. Tozer as Jerry West
* Mic ...
'' (1922)
* ''
M'Lord of the White Road'' (1923)
* ''
The Scandal'' (1923)
* ''
The Gay Corinthian'' (1924)
* ''
Nets of Destiny'' (1924)
* ''
The Wine of Life
''The Wine of Life'' is a 1924 British silent drama film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Clive Brook, Juliette Compton and James Carew. The screenplay concerns a newly divorced woman who falls in love with an artist and a hypnotist at t ...
'' (1924)
* ''
The Diamond Man'' (1924)
* ''
The Blue Peter'' (1928)
Actor
* ''
Thelma
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'' (1918)
* ''
God's Clay'' (1919)
References
Bibliography
* Bamford, Kenton. ''Distored Images: British National Identity and Film in the 1920s''. I.B. Tauris, 1999.
External links
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Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
English film directors
English male silent film actors
20th-century English male actors
20th-century British male actors
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