Omar the Tentmaker
movie
Released December 22, 1922
Overview
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
as
Omar the tentmaker
Virginia Brown Faire
as
Shireen
Nigel De Brulier
as
Nizam ul Mulk
Noah Beery
as
The shah of shahs
Rose Dione
as
Shah's mother
Patsy Ruth Miller
as
Little Shireen
Douglas Gerrard
as
Hassan
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Will Jim Hatton
as
Little Mahruss
Boris Karloff
as
Imam Mowaffak
Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn
as
The Christian Crusader (as Maurice B. Flynn)
Edward Kimball
as
Omar's father (as Edward M. Kimball)
Walter Long
as
The executioner
