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name: "Frank Debenham"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frank-debenham"
fi1m_id: "frank-debenham"
tmdb_id: 3554060
roles: []
born: "26 December 1883"
died: "23 November 1965"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T06:04:41.396051+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Frank Debenham

## Identity

Frank Debenham

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frank-debenham
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** frank-debenham
- **TMDB ID:** 3554060
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3554060

Actor. Born 26 December 1883 in Bowral, New South Wales, Australia. Died 23 November 1965.

## Details

- **Born:** 26 December 1883, Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
- **Died:** 23 November 1965
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3554060

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Great White Silence*](https://film.one/film/the-great-white-silence.md) (81)

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## Biography

Frank Debenham was an Australian-born British geographer, glaciologist and Antarctic explorer. He served as a geologist on Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913.

Debenham later founded and directed the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. He appears as Self in archive footage in the 1924 documentary *The Great White Silence*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Great White Silence* (1924), Fi1m 81, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-white-silence.md)

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