From 1918 to 1921 Rudolph Valentino interpreted minor parts in 19 films under the name of Rudolph di Valentina. In 1921 he was assigned his first leading role in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", changing for good his pseudonym in that of Rudolph Valentino. In total he took part in 33 films, from 1918 to 1926, the year of his untimely death.
1) "Alimony"
producer: First National
director: Emmett J. Flynn
cast: Lois Wilson, Josephine Whittel
date:1918
2) "A Society Sensation"
producer: Universal
director: Paul Powell
cast: Carmel Myers, Zazu Pitts, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1918
3) "All Night"
producer: Universal
director: Paul Powell
cast: Carmel Myers, Lidia Yeamans, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1918
4) "The Delicious Little Devil"
producer: Universal
director: Robert Z. Leonard
cast: Mae Murray, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1919
5) "The Big Little Person"
producer: Universal
director: Robert Z. Leonard
cast: Mae Murray, Rodolfo di Valentina
date:1919
6) "A Rogue's Romance"
producer: Vitagraph
director: James Young
cast: Earle Williams, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1919
7) "The Homebreaker"
producer: Artcraft Paramount
director: Victor Schertzinger
cast: Dorothy Dalton, Douglas McLean, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1919
8) "Out of Luck"
producer: Griffith-Artcraft, Paramount
director: Elmer Clifton
cast: Dorothy Gish, Ralph Graves, Elmer Clifton, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1919
9) "Virtuos Sinners"
director: Emmett J. Flynn
cast: Mae Murray, Wanda Hawley, Norman Kerry, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1919
10) "The Fog"
director: Selznick
cast: Eugène O'Brien, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1919
11) "Nobody Home"
director: Elmer Clifton
cast: Dorothy Phillips, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1919
12) "The Eyes of Youth"
producer: Equity Pictures
director: Albert Parker
cast: Clara Kimball Young, Milton Sills, Edmund Lowe, Rodolfo di Valentina
date:1919
13) "The Married Virgin" or "Frivolous Wives"
producer: Fidelity Picyures
director: Joseph Maxwell
cast: Vera Sisson, Edward Jobson, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1920
14) "Stolen Moments"
producer: Pioneer Pictures
director: James Vincent
cast: Marguerite Nama, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1920
15) "An Adventuress"
producer: Republing Distributing C°
director: Fred Balshofer
cast: Julian Eltinge, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1920
16) "The Cheater"
Based on the play "Judah" by Henry Arthur Jones
producer: Metro
director: Henry Otto
cast: May Allison, King Baggott, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1920
17) "Passion's Playground"
Based on the story by C. N. and M. A. Williamson
producer: First National
director: J. A. Barry
cast: Katherine MacDonald, Norman Kerry, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1920
18) "Once to every Woman"
producer: Universal
director: Allen J. Holubar
cast: Dorothy Phillips, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1920
19) "The Wonderful Chance"
Based on a story by H. H. Van Loan
producer: Selznick
director: Georges Archaimbaud
cast: Eugène O'Brien, Rodolfo di Valentina
date: 1920
20) "The Fuor Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
Based on the novel by Vicente Blasco Ibañez (1918)
eleven reels
producer: Metro
director: Rex Ingram
screen play: June Mathis
photography: John F. Seitz
photography assistants: Starrett Ford, Walter Mayo
assistant directors: Joseph Calder, Amos Myers
editing: Grant Whytock
music: Louis F. Gottschalk
scenografia: Walter Mayo
titles: Jack W. Robson
cast: Rudolph Valentino (Julio Desnoyers), Alice Terry (Marguerite Laurier),
Pomeroy Cannon (the Centaur), Joseph Swickard (Marcel Desnoyers), Alan Hale
(Karl von Hartrott), Nigel De Brulier (Tchernoff), Bridgetta Clark (Doña Luisa),
Mabel Van Buren (Elena)
date: 1921
21) "Uncharted seas"
Based on the story "The Uncharted Seas" by John Henry Wilson published in Munsey's
Magazine in September 1920
six reels
producer: Metro
director: Wesley Ruggles
screen play: George Edward Jenks
photography: John F. Seitz
set-design: John Holden
cast: Alice Lake (Lucretia Eastman), Carl Gerard (Senator Eastman), Rudolph
Valentino (Frank Underwood)
date: 1921
22) "The Conquering Power"
Based on the novel "Eugénie Grandet" by Honoré de Balzac (1833)
seven reels
producer: Metro
director: Rex Ingram
screen play: June Mathis
photography: John F. Seitz
cast: Alice Terry (Eugénie Grandet), Rudolph Valentino (Charles Grandet),
Eric Mayne (Victor Grandet), Ralph Lewis (père Grandet)
date: 1921
23) "Camille"
Based on Alexandre Dumas' play from his novel "La Dame aux Camelias"
(1848 e 1852)
1.700 metri di pellicola
producer: Nazimova Productions, Metro
director: Ray C. Smallwood
screen play: June Mathis
photography: Rudolph Bergquist
set-design: Natacha Rambova
cast: Alla Nazimova (Camille), Rudolph Valentino (Armand)
date: 1921
24) "The Sheik"
Based on the novel by Edith Maude Hull (1919)
1850 metres of film
producer: Famous Players-Lasky, Paramount
director: George Melford
screen play: Monte M. Katterjohn
photography: William Marshall
cast: Agnes Ayres (Lady Diana), Rudolph Valentino (sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan),
Adolphe Menjou (Raoul de St. Hubert), Walter Long (Omar)
date: 1921
25) "Moran of the Lady Letty"
Based on the novel by Frank Norris (1898)
1940 metres of film
producer: Famous Players-Lasky, Paramount
director: George Melford
screen play: Monte M. Katterjohn
photography: William Marshall
cast: Dorothy Dalton (Moran), Rudolph Valentino (Ramòn Laredo),
Charles Brinley (Captain Sternersen), Walter Long (Captain Kitchell)
date:1922
26) Beyond the Rocks"
Based on the novel by Elinor Glyn (1906)
2.050 metres of film
producer: Famous Players-Lasky, Paramount
director: Sam Wood
screen play: Jack Cunningham
photography: Alfred Gilks
cast: Gloria Swanson (Theodora Fitzgerald), Rudolph Valentino (Lord Bracondale),
Edithe Chapman (Lady Bracondale), Alec B. Tranis (Captain Fitzgerald)
date: 1922
27) "Blood and Sand"
Based on the novel by Vicente Blasco Ibañez (1908)
2.470 metres of film
producer: Famous Players-Lasky, Paramount
director: Fred Niblo
screen play: June Mathis
photography: Alvin Wyckoff
cast: Rudolph Valentino (Juan Gallardo), Lila Lee (Carmen), Nita Naldi (Doña Sol),
George Field (El Nacional), Walter Long (Plumitas)
date: 1922
28) "The Young Rajah"
Based on the novel "Amos Judd" by John Ames Mitchell (1919)
2.350 metres of film
producer: Famous Players-Lasky, Paramount
director: Philip Rosen
assistant director: Merwyn Leroy
screen play: June Mathis
photography: James C. Van Trees
cast: Rudolph Valentino (Amos Judd), Wanda Hawley (Molly Cabot), Jack Giddins
(Austin Slade), Joseph Swickard (Narada)
date: 1922
29) "Monsieur Beaucaire"
Based on the novel by Booth Tarkington (1900)
3.030 metres of film
producer: Ritz Carlton Pictures, Paramount
director: Sidney Olcott
screen play: Forrest Halsey
photography: Harry Fischbeck
set-design: Natacha Rambova
editing: Patricia Rooney
cast: Rudolph Valentino (Duke of Chartres/Beaucaire), Bebe Daniels (Princess
Henriette), Lowell Shermann (King of France), Lois Wilson (Queen of France),
Doris Kenyon (Lady Mary), Ian MacLaren (Duke of Winterset)
date: 1924
30) "A Sainted Devil"
Based on the story "Rope's End" by Rex Beach, published in Cosmopolitan,
May 1913
2.633 metres of film
producer: Ritz Carlton Pictures, Paramount
director: Joseph Henabery
screen play: Forrest Halsey
photography: Harry Fischbeck
cast: Rudolph Valentino (Don Alonzo De Castro), Nita Naldi (Carlotta),
Helen D'Algy (Julieta Valdez), Dagmar Godowsky (Doña Florencia)
date: 1924
31) "Cobra"
Based on the play by Martin Brown (1924)
2.103 metres of film
producer: Ritz Carlton Pictures, Paramount
director: Joseph Henabery
screen play: Antony Coldeways
photography: J. D. Jennings, Harry Fischbeck
set-design: William Cameron Menzies
costumes: Gilbert Adrian
cast: Rudolph Valentino (Count Torriani), Nita Naldi (Elise Van Zile),
Casson Ferguson (Jack Dorning), Gertrude Olmstead (Mary Drake)
date: 1925
32) "The Eagle"
Based on the novel "Dubrovsky" by A. Pushkin (1894)
2.060 metres of film
producer: United Artists
director: Clarence Brown
screen play: Hans Kraly
photography: George Barnes, Dev Jennings
titles: George Marion jr.
editing: Hal C. Kern
set-design: William Cameron Menzies
costumes: Gilbert Adrian
cast: Rudolph Valentino (Vladimir Dubrovsky), Vilma Banky (Masha Troekouroff),
Louise Dresser (Tsarina), Albert Conti (Kuschka)
date: 1925
33) "The Son of the Sheik"
Based on the novel "Sons of the Sheik" by Edith Maude Hull (1925)
2.039 metres of film
producer: United Artists
director: George Fitzmaurice
photography: George Barnes
didascalie: George Marion jr.
screen play: Frances Marion, Fred de Gressac