D. D. Dabke or Dattatraya Damodar Dabke was an actor in the first ever

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full length silent film ''

Raja Harishchandra ''Raja Harishchandra'' () is a 1913 Indian silent film directed and produced by Dadasaheb Phalke. It is often considered the first full-length Indian feature film. ''Raja Harishchandra'' features Dattatraya Damodar Dabke, Anna Salunke, Bhalc ...

'', directed by

Dadasaheb Phalke Dhundiraj Govind Phalke (Pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, ̪ʱuɳɖiɾaːd͡ʒ pʰaːɭke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke () (30 April 1870 – 16 February 1944), was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as "the Father of In ...

in 1913. He co-starred with

Anna Salunke Anna Hari Salunke, also known as A. Salunke and Annasaheb Saluke, was an Indian actor who performed female roles in very early Indian cinema and also a cinematographer. He is credited as the first person to perform as a heroine in Indian cinema ...

. 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''

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Indian male silent film actors 20th-century Indian male actors 1885 births 1946 deaths Male actors from British India {{India-actor-stub