Omar the Tentmaker

  • Genre: RomanceDrama
  • Run time: 80 min
  • Premiere: 1922. December 22.

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.

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Guy Bates Post

Omar the tentmaker

Nigel De Brulier

Nizam ul Mulk

Noah Beery

The shah of shahs

Rose Dione

Shah's mother

Patsy Ruth Miller

Little Shireen

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

John Gribner

Mahruss

Gordon Mullen

Emissary to the Shah

George Regas

Emissary to the Shah (as George Rigas)

Nick Shaid

Arab Guard in Shireen's Garden (uncredited)

Directing

James Young

Director

Writing

Richard Walton Tully

Theatre Play

Directing

James Young

Director

Writing

Richard Walton Tully

Theatre Play