FILMOGRAPHY

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
    editing: Hal C. Kern
    set-design: William Cameron Menzies
    cast: Rudolph Valentino (the Sheik; his son Ahmed), Vilma Banky (Yasmin),
    George Fawcett (André), Agnes Ayres (Diana, the Sheik's wife), Montague Love
    (the Moor Ghabah), Karl Dane (Ramadan, Ahmed's servant), Bull Montana (Alì), Bynunsky
    Hyman (Pincher), Charles Requa (Pierre), William Donovan (S'rir), Erwin Connelly
    (the Zouave)
    date: 1926

    It seems, moreover, that Valentino, at the beginning of his career, also took part in the following films, although there is no definite proof of this:

  • "The Battle of the Sexes" (1914);
  • "My Official Wife" (1914);
  • "Seventeen" (1916);
  • "The Foolish Virgin" (1916);



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