David Copperfield

  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 40 min
  • Premiere: 1911. October 17.

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.

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Flora Foster

David Copperfield as a Boy

Marie Eline

Em'ly as a Child

Anna Seer

Davids Mother

Ed Genung

David Copperfield as a Man

Florence La Badie

Em'ly as a Woman

Mignon Anderson

Dora Spenlow

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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