Arthur Rooke
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Arthur Rooke was a British actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 of the silent 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
A.E. Coleby
A.E. Coleby was a British film director, actor and screenwriter of the silent era.-Selected filmography:Director* Kent, the Fighting Man * Thelma * Long Odds * The Mystery of Dr...

, 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
    Thelma (1918 film)
    Thelma is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by A.E. Coleby, Arthur Rooke and starring Malvina Longfellow, Arthur Rooke and Maud Yates...

    (1918)
  • God's Clay
    God's Clay (1919 film)
    God's Clay is a 1919 British silent drama film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Janet Alexander, Humberston Wright and Maud Yates. A respectable woman's position in society is threatened by a blackmailer. It is an adaptation of the novel God's Clay by Claude Askew and Alice Askew...

    (1919)
  • The Mirage
    The Mirage (film)
    The Mirage is a 1920 British silent romance film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Edward O'Neill, Dorothy Holmes-Gore and Douglas Munro. The screenplay was written by Guy Newall and Ivy Duke based on a story by E. Temple Thurston. A poor French aristocrat living in Bloomsbury falls in love...

    (1920)
  • The Lure of Crooning Water
    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. It was one of several rural romances that Rooke directed...

    (1920)
  • A Sporting Double (1922)
  • M'Lord of the White Road (1923)
  • The Gay Corinthian (1924)
  • Nets of Destiny
    Nets of Destiny
    Nets of Destiny is a 1924 British drama film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Stewart Rome, Mary Odette and Gertrude McCoy. It was an adaptation of the novel The Salving of a Derelict by Maurice Drake...

    (1924)
  • The Wine of Life
    The Wine of Life
    The Wine of Life is a 1924 British silent drama film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Betty Carter, Clive Brook and James Carew. A newly divorced woman falls in love with an artist and a hypnotist at the same time.-Cast:* Betty Carter - Lady Branton...

    (1924)
  • The Diamond Man
    The Diamond Man
    The Diamond Man is a 1924 British crime film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Arthur Wontner, Mary Odette and Reginald Fox. It was based on a novel by Edgar Wallace. The movie is silent and black and white. Distributed by Butcher's film service, script written by Eliot Stannard, and produced...

    (1924)
  • The Blue Peter (1928)


Actor
  • Thelma
    Thelma (1918 film)
    Thelma is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by A.E. Coleby, Arthur Rooke and starring Malvina Longfellow, Arthur Rooke and Maud Yates...

    (1918)
  • God's Clay
    God's Clay (1919 film)
    God's Clay is a 1919 British silent drama film directed by Arthur Rooke and starring Janet Alexander, Humberston Wright and Maud Yates. A respectable woman's position in society is threatened by a blackmailer. It is an adaptation of the novel God's Clay by Claude Askew and Alice Askew...

    (1919)
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