David Copperfield

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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40 min

Cast

Flora Foster

as David Copperfield as a Boy

Marie Eline

as Em'ly as a Child

Anna Seer

as Davids Mother

Ed Genung

as David Copperfield as a Man

Florence La Badie

as Em'ly as a Woman

Frank Hall Crane

Alphonse Ethier

Maude Fealy

Mignon Anderson

as Dora Spenlow

William Garwood

Harry Benham

Viola Alberti

as Aunt Betsey Trotwood

Justus D. Barnes

as Ham Peggotty (in part one)

William Russell

as Ham Peggotty (in part two)

James Cruze

as Steerforth

Director

Theodore Marston