David Copperfield

Overview

Thanhouser Company three-reel silent film based on Charles Dickens’s story of an English lad's tribulation-filled journey to adulthood, Thanhouser released the three films over the course of three weeks beginning on October 17, 1911, one 1,000 foot reel per week.

Directed by Theodore Marston

Top cast

F

Flora Foster

David Copperfield as a Boy

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Marie Eline

Em'ly as a Child

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Anna Seer

Davids Mother

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Ed Genung

David Copperfield as a Man

Florence La Badie

Em'ly as a Woman

Frank Hall Crane

Alphonse Ethier

Maude Fealy

Mignon Anderson

Dora Spenlow

William Garwood

Harry Benham

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Viola Alberti

Aunt Betsey Trotwood

Justus D. Barnes

Ham Peggotty (in part one)

William Russell

Ham Peggotty (in part two)

James Cruze

Steerforth

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