''Rasputin, the Black Monk'' is a

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1917 American silent

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by Arthur Ashley and starring

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. It was produced and distributed by

World Film Company The World Film Company or World Film Corporation was an American film production and distribution company, organized in 1914 in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Short-lived but significant in American film history, World Film was created by financier and fil ...

. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993:''Rasputin, The Black Monk''
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Cast

as Gregory Novik/

Rasputin Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (; rus, links=no, Григорий Ефимович Распутин ; – ) was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia, thus ga ...

Henry Hull Henry Watterson Hull (October 3, 1890 – March 8, 1977) was an American character actor perhaps best known for playing the lead in Universal Pictures's ''Werewolf of London'' (1935). For most of his career, he was a lead actor on stage and a ch ...

Kerensky Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky, ; original spelling: ( – 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to early Novembe ...

June Elvidge June Elvidge (June 30, 1893 – May 1, 1965) was an early 20th-century silent film actress. She was of English and Irish descent. Biography Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Elvidge attended Pennsylvania College and was a concert singer before ...

as Inez, Raff's wife *

Arthur Ashley Arthur Ashley (October 6, 1886 – December 28, 1970) was an actor, writer, and director of silent films and also acted in legitimate theater. He was involved with World Pictures. He directed and acted in several film productions. Later in his ...

as Raff *Violet Axzelle as Ilda, as a child (*as Violet Axzell) *

Lillian Cook Lillian Cook was an American actress who was active in Hollywood during the silent era. Biography Cook was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Joseph Cook and his wife Martha. An only child, she grew up primarily in Cincinnati before she moved t ...

as Ilda, Raff's daughter - as an adult *

Bertram Grassby Bertram Grassby (23 December 1880 – 7 December 1953) was an English actor. He appeared in more than 90 silent era films between 1914 and 1927. Grassby was married to American actress Gerard Alexander. He was born in Lincolnshire, England a ...

as Alexus *

Irving Cummings Irving Caminsky (October 9, 1888 – April 18, 1959) was an American movie actor and director. Career Born in New York City, Cummings started his acting career at age 16 in ''Diplomacy''. His Broadway, performances included ''In the Long R ...

as Prince Felix * Julia Dean as Madame Vasta, Lady in Waiting *

Pinna Nesbit Pinna Nesbit (November 26, 1896 – March 31, 1950) was a Canadian silent film actress. She was married three times and had an affair with King Edward VIII, when he was Prince of Wales. Her first husband, Harley Knoles, directed several of her fil ...

as Princess Sonia *Hubert Wilke as Czar Andre *Florence Beresford as Czarina Katherine *Charles Crompton as Paulus *Frank Beamish as Choynski, Russian Secret Service *

Joseph Granby Joseph Granby (March 24, 1885 – September 22, 1965) was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1915 to the 1960s. Born in Boston he started in movies in 1915, mostly shorts, acting for Universal, its predecessor Independent Motion Pi ...

as Mikula Dvorkin, leader of Duma

References

External links

Rasputin, The Black Monk at IMDb.com
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rasputin, the Black Monk 1917 films American silent feature films American black-and-white films World Film Company films Lost American films Silent American drama films 1917 drama films 1917 lost films Lost drama films 1910s American films