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Dattatraya Damodar Dabke
Born1885
Asud, Dapoli taluka, Maharashtra, India
Died16 December 1946[1]
NationalityIndian
OccupationActor, Cinematographer, Director

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]

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  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.