The Dictator is a 1915 American silent comedy film directed by Oscar Eagle and reputedly Edwin S. Porter. It was based on a play The Dictator by Richard Harding Davis and produced by Adolph Zukor (Famous Players Film Company) and the Charles Frohman Company. John Barrymore stars in a role played on the stage by William Collier Sr. whose company Barrymore had performed in this play. The film was rereleased on April 13, 1919 as part of the Paramount "Success Series" of their early screen successes. The story was refilmed in 1922 as The Dictator starring Wallace Reid. Today both films are lost.Progressive Silent Film List: The Dictator at silentera.comThe Dictator as produced on Broadway at the Criterion Theatre beginning in 1904The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988John Barrymore, A Bio-bibliography by Martin E. Norden, c. 1995 (films rereleased by Paramount as part of "Success-Series")
The film was shot partially in Cuba.
Cast John Barrymore as Brooke Travers Charlotte Ives as Lucy Sheridan Ruby Hoffman as Juanita Ivan F. Simpson as Simpson Walter Craven as General Campos Robert Broderick as Colonel Bowie Esther Lyon as Mrs. Bowie Henry West as Reverend Bostick (as Harry West) Mario Majeroni as General Rivas Thomas McGrath as Duffy
See also John Barrymore on stage, screen and radio Edwin S. Porter filmography
References
External links
The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:The Dictator