Omar the Tentmaker (1922)
Director: James Young
Language: en
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.
Cast
Guy Bates Post
Omar the tentmaker
Virginia Brown Faire
Shireen
Nigel De Brulier
Nizam ul Mulk
Noah Beery
The shah of shahs
Rose Dione
Shah's mother
Patsy Ruth Miller
Little Shireen
Douglas Gerrard
Hassan
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Will Jim Hatton
Little Mahruss
Boris Karloff
Imam Mowaffak
Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn
The Christian Crusader (as Maurice B. Flynn)
Edward Kimball
Omar's father (as Edward M. Kimball)
Walter Long
The executioner
Evelyn Selbie
Zarah
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John Gribner
Mahruss
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Gordon Mullen
Emissary to the Shah
