D. D. Dabke

D. D. Dabke or Dattatraya Damodar Dabke was an actor in the first ever Indian full length silent film Raja Harishchandra, directed by Dadasaheb Phalke in 1913.[2] He co-starred with Anna Salunke. He acted in three more movies Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra (1917), Lanka Dahan (1917), Shri Krishna Janma (1918) and later became a cinematographer, as well as a director. He directed the 1924 remake of Raja Harishchandra[3]

Dattatraya Damodar Dabke
Born1885
Asud, Dapoli, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died16 December 1946(1946-12-16) (aged 60–61)[1]
NationalityIndian
Occupations

References
  1. filmhistory, Indian (16 July 2021). "D D Dabke". IndianFilmHistory. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  2. Watve, Bapu (2012) [2004]. Dadasaheb Phalke, The Father of Indian Cinema. Translated by Virkar, S. A. National Book Trust. p. 38. ISBN 978-81-237-4319-6.
  3. Sen, Shomini (19 February 2013). "100 years of Indian cinema: How Bombay became Bollywood". CNN-news18. Retrieved 7 July 2018.


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