Rudolph de Cordova was a Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n-born British writer, screenwriter and actor. He was married to the writer Alicia Ramsey

Alicia Ramsey

Alicia Ramsey was a British playwright and screenwriter. Her name is sometimes given as Alice Ramsey. She was born Alice Joanna Royston before she married the actor Cecil Ramsey. She later married Rudolph de Cordova with whom she collaborated on several works...

 and collaborated with her on several plays. Cordova was born in Kingston

Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...

, the son of a prominent merchant. He went to London to study medicine in the 1880s, but stoon abandoned his studies in order to become an actor. His brother was the actor and film director Leander de Cordova

Leander de Cordova

Leander de Cordova was a Jamaican actor and film director. He was the brother of Rudolph de Cordova.-Selected filmography:Actor* Zorro's Fighting Legion * Mission to Moscow * The Mysterious Desperado...

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Selected filmography

Actor

• The Greatest Power (1917)
• The Glorious Adventure
  The Glorious Adventure (1922 film)
  The Glorious Adventure is a US/UK feature film directed by J. Stuart Blackton, written by Felix Orman.-Production background:The film was made entirely in Prizmacolor, and starred Lady Diana Manners, Gerald Lawrence, Cecil Humphreys, and Victor McLaglen, and was released by United Artists.Neither...
  
  (1922)
• The Secret Kingdom (1925)

Screenwriter

• Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet (1916 film)
  Romeo and Juliet is a 1916 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century...
  
  (1916)
• Trumpet Island (1920)