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9 unusual facts about Alfred Dampier


Alfred Dampier

Dampier adapted For the Term of His Natural Life (1886), Robbery Under Arms (1890) and The Miner's Right (1891).

For the Term of His Natural Life (1886) - with Thomas Somers, adapted from the novel - later filmed as The Life of Rufus Dawes (1911)

Robbery Under Arms (1890) - with Garnet Walch, adapted from the novel - later filmed in 1911

Captain Midnight, the Bush King

Charles Cozens Spencer would later make three other films based on Alfred Dampier play adaptations of novels set in colonial Australia, Captain Starlight, or Gentleman of the Road (1911), The Life of Rufus Dawes (1911) and The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1912).

The play was rewritten by Alfred Dampier (Rolfe's father in law), writing as "Adam Pierre".

Richard Cobbold

The History Of Margaret Catchpole: A Suffolk Girl became the 1887 play An English Lass by Alfred Dampier and C.H. Krieger, which formed the basis for the film The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole (1912)

The Life of Rufus Dawes

The film was the last of three movies Alfred Rolfe directed for Charles Cozens Spencer, all of them based on popular stage adaptations by Alfred Dampier of famous novel and starring Rolfe, his wife Lily Dampier and Raymond Longford.

The Romantic Story of Margaret Catchpole

The novel was dramatised in the play An English Lass by Alfred Dampier and C.H. Krieger.

Spencer had produced three films based on plays by Alfred Dampier under the direction of Alfred Rolfe and wanted to make a fourth.



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