''Daddy'' is a 1917 British silent

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directed by

Thomas Bentley Thomas Bentley (23 February 1884 – 23 December 1966) was a British film director. He directed 68 films between 1912 and 1941. He directed three films in the early DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process, ''The Man in the Street'' (1926), '' ...

and starring Langhorn Burton, Peggy Kurton and

William Lugg William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

. After his musician dies his young son goes to live with a

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

manufacturer falling in his love with his daughter as he grows up.

Cast

* Langhorn Burton as John Melsher * Peggy Kurton as Elsie Vernon *

as Andrew Vernon * M. R. Morand as John Melsher * Charles Macdona as Farmer Bruff *

Eric Barker Eric Leslie Barker (12 February 1912 – 1 June 1990) was an English comedy actor. He is most remembered for his roles in the popular British ''Carry On'' films, although he only appeared in the early films in the series, apart from returning f ...

as John, as a child * Audrey Hughes as Elsie, as a child

Bibliography

* Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1914-1918''. Routledge, 2005.

External links

* 1917 films 1917 drama films British drama films 1910s English-language films Films directed by Thomas Bentley British silent feature films British black-and-white films 1910s British films Silent drama films {{1910s-UK-film-stub