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Omar the Tentmaker
Released: December 22, 1922 (1922)
Runtime: 80 minutes
Genres: Romance, Drama
About Omar Khayyam of Persia, the poet and mathematician, who wrote the Iranian first solar calendar circa A.D. 1073. His fiancé was forced to marry the shah, but she eventually escaped and, with help of grand Vazir, joined Omar Khayyam. Hollywood made a film based on the same story with Connell Wilde, the life and adventures of Omar Khayyam.
Main Cast (Top 10 billed, oldest first)
- Guy Bates Post as Omar the tentmaker
Age at release: 47
- Nigel De Brulier as Nizam ul Mulk
Age at release: 45
- Rose Dione as Shah's mother
Age at release: 44
- Noah Beery as The shah of shahs
Age at release: 40
- Boris Karloff as Imam Mowaffak
Age at release: 35
- Douglas Gerrard as Hassan
Age at release: 31
- Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn as The Christian Crusader (as Maurice B. Flynn)
Age at release: 30
- Virginia Brown Faire as Shireen
Age at release: 18
- Patsy Ruth Miller as Little Shireen
Age at release: 18
- Will Jim Hatton as Little Mahruss
Age at release: 15
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- Edward Kimball as Omar's father (as Edward M. Kimball)
Age at release: 63
- Nick Shaid as Arab Guard in Shireen's Garden (uncredited)
Age at release: 62
- Evelyn Selbie as Zarah
Age at release: 51
- Walter Long as The executioner
Age at release: 43
- Gordon Mullen as Emissary to the Shah
Age at release: 33
- George Regas as Emissary to the Shah (as George Rigas)
Age at release: 32
- John Gribner as Mahruss
Age at release: Unknown