''Napoleon's Barber'' is a 1928 American
featurette
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Medium-length film ...
drama film
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directed by
John Ford
John Martin Feeney (February 1, 1894 – August 31, 1973), better known as John Ford, was an American film director and producer. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers during the Golden Age of Hollywood, and w ...
, and filmed in the
Fox Movietone sound-on-film
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system. The film, Ford's first
talkie
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, is now considered to be a
lost film
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.
Plot
Cast
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Otto Matieson as Napoleon
* Natalie Golitzen as Empress Josephine
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Frank Reicher
Frank Reicher (born Franz Reichert; December 2, 1875 – January 19, 1965) was a German-born American actor, director and producer. He is best known for playing Captain Englehorn in the 1933 film ''King Kong''.
Early life
Reicher was born in M ...
as Napoleon's Barber
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Helen Ware
Helen Ware ( Remer; October 15, 1877 – January 25, 1939) was an American stage and film actress.
Early years
Born to the architect John August Remer and Elinor Maria (née Ware), Ware adopted her mother's maiden name as her professional ...
as The Barber's Wife
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Philippe De Lacy as The Barber's Son
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D'Arcy Corrigan as Tailor
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Russ Powell as Blacksmith
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Michael Mark as Peasant
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Buddy Roosevelt as French Officer
* Ervin Renard as French Officer
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Youcca Troubetzkoy as French Officer
* Joseph Waddell as French Officer
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Henry Hebert as Soldier
See also
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List of lost films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
Reas ...
References
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1928 films
American black-and-white films
1928 drama films
1928 short films
Short films directed by John Ford
Lost American drama films
1928 lost films
1920s English-language films
1920s American films
English-language drama short films
Lost silent American films
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