The Ghost Breaker is a 1914 drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille was an American film director and Academy Award-winning film producer in both silent and sound films. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies...

 and Oscar Apfel

Oscar Apfel

Oscar C. Apfel was an American film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He appeared in 167 films between 1913 and 1939, and also directed 94 films between 1911 and 1927.-Biography:...

 and based on the Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 play of the same name by Paul Dickey

Paul Dickey

Paul Dickey , was an American playwright and silent screen writer. He wrote 17 films between years 1914 and 1953.He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in New York, New York, aged 50....

 and Charles W. Goddard

Charles W. Goddard

Charles William Goddard was a playwright and screenwriter.Goddard began writing Broadway plays before turning to film, adapting a number of his stage works to film. He wrote the script for the Pathé Freres film The Exploits of Elaine, which has been selected for preservation in the United States...

. It is considered widely to be the first film of a long line based on the genre of haunted house horror. The film was remade as The Ghost Breaker

The Ghost Breaker (1922 film)

The Ghost Breaker is a 1922 American silent film comedy based around haunted houses and ghosts. It was produced Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Alfred E. Green and starred popular Wallace Reid in one of his last screen portrayals. The story, based...

(1922) with Wallace Reid

Wallace Reid

Wallace Reid was an actor in silent film referred to as "the screen's most perfect lover".-Early life:Born William Wallace Reid in St...

 and Lila Lee

Lila Lee

Lila Lee was a prominent screen actress of the early silent film era.-Early life:Lila Lee was born Augusta Wilhelmena Fredericka Appel in Union Hill, New Jersey into a middle-class family of German immigrants who relocated to New York City when Lila was quite young...

, as The Ghost Breakers

The Ghost Breakers

The Ghost Breakers is a comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. The movie was adapted by Walter DeLeon from the play The Ghost Breaker by Paul Dickey and Charles W...

(1940) with Bob Hope

Bob Hope

Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...

 and Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard

Paulette Goddard was an American film and theatre actress. A former child fashion model and in several Broadway productions as Ziegfeld Girl, she was a major star of the Paramount Studio in the 1940s. She was married to several notable men, including Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich...

, and as Scared Stiff (1953) with Martin and Lewis

Martin and Lewis

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. Today it is a lost

Lost film

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 film.

Cast

• H. B. Warner
  H. B. Warner
  H. B. Warner was a British actor.-Early life:He was born Henry Byron Charles Stewart Warner-Lickford in St John's Wood, London, England in 1875...
  
   - Warren Jarvis
• Rita Stanwood - Princess Maria Theresa
• Theodore Roberts
  Theodore Roberts
  Theodore Roberts the actor is not to be confused with author Theodore Goodridge Roberts, 1877–1953, who wrote "The Harbor Master". Please see discussion page....
  
   - Prince of Aragon
• Betty Johnson - Carmen
• Jode Mullally - Don Luis
• Horace B. Carpenter
  Horace B. Carpenter
  Horace B. Carpenter was an American actor, film director and, screenwriter. He appeared in 334 films between 1914 and 1946. He also directed 15 films between 1925 and 1934...
  
   - Carlos, Duke D'Alva
• Jeanie Macpherson
  Jeanie MacPherson
  Jeanie MacPherson was a silent film actress from 1908 to 1917 and a film screenwriter through the 1940s....
  
   - Juanita, Carmen's rival (as Jeanne McPherson)
• Mabel Van Buren
  Mabel Van Buren
  Mabel Van Buren was an American stage and screen actress from Chicago, Illinois. She had dark hair, brown eyes, and was five feet three inches tall. She enjoyed riding horses and swimming....
  
   - Delores
• William Elmer
  William Elmer
  William Elmer was an American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 88 films between 1913 and 1942.He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:* Condemned...
  
   - Robledo
• Richard L'Estrange - Maximo, the ghost (as Dick La Strange)
• Fred Montague
  Fred Montague
  Fred Montague was an English film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 59 films between 1912 and 1919.He was born in London and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* Lure of the Circus...
  
   - Gaspart, the ghost
• Lucien Littlefield
  Lucien Littlefield
  Lucien Littlefield was an American actor in the silent film era...
  
  - Judge Jarvis
• John Burton - Rusty (as J.W. Burton)
• Jack W. Johnston - Markam (as J.W. Johnson)