In "Son of the Sheik", he played the title role as well as the character's father
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Valentino plays the senior sheik as a blustering but loving father in the... [DOC] [TLE] Rudolph Valentino facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] By 1913, after the death of his father, Valentino moved to New York, passing 
through Ellis Island.