Alice Hollister

Acting · 0.6 popularity

Age

139

Movies

Born: September 28, 1886 – February 24, 1973
From: Worcester - Massachusetts - USA

Biography

From Wikipedia Alice Hollister (September 28, 1886 – February 24, 1973) was an American silent film actress who appeared in 85 films between 1911 and 1925. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, she is believed to have been the daughter of French-Canadian immigrants. In 1903, at age seventeen, she married George K. Hollister who a few years later became a pioneer cinematographer with Kalem Studios in New York City. They had a daughter, Doris Ethel, born in 1906, and George Jr., born in 1908. When Kalem Studios began sending a film crew to Florida in the wintertime, Alice Hollister accompanied her husband. She began appearing in film in 1911, at first because of the small crew and the frequent need for a female in a bit part. However, she liked acting and went on to appear in many films, the last in 1925. One of Hollister's most important roles was that of Mary Magdalene in the film From the Manger to the Cross (1912). Filmed on location in Palestine, this film has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The Vampire (1913) made her the first recognized vamp in cinema, predating Theda Bara in A Fool There Was (1915). For that role, she was dubbed "the original vampire". She reprised the character in The Vampire's Trail (1914) and The Lotus Woman (1916), her last film for Kalem. Alice Hollister's husband died in 1952 and she died in 1973, aged 86, in Costa Mesa, California. They are interred together in the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Solace at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Works

92 films

Loaded Dice

1918

Don Caesar de Bazan

1915

The Vampire

19136.5

Shenandoah

191310.0

The Brand

1914

An Arabian Tragedy

19127.0

Her Husband's Friend

191410.0

The Net of Deceit

1915

Dust of the Desert

1912

The Siren's Reign

19157.0

The Man of Iron

1914

The Terror of Conscience

19137.0

The Prosecuting Attorney

19137.0

The Money Gulf

1915

The Lotus Woman

19169.0

The Great Lover

19208.0

The Hate That Withers

191410.0

The Fiddler’s Requiem

19117.0

A Midnight Tragedy

1914

The Dancers

19257.5

Her Bitter Lesson

19149.0

The Wheel of Death

19137.0

A Wise Fool

19219.0

Married Flirts

19249.0

The Lost Diamond

1913

A Sister's Burden

1915

From the Manger to the Cross

19125.1

By a Woman's Wit

19116.7

A Prisoner of the Harem

19129.0

Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler

19148.0

A Voice in the Dark

19218.0

The Treasure Ship

1914

Milestones

19208.0

The Knife

19186.0

The Forgotten Law

19223.3

The Little Gluers

19129.0

The Hobo and the Myth

19139.0

Frayed Fagin's Adventures

1913

The Hand of Fate

19149.0

The Vampire's Trail

1914

Seed and the Harvest

1914

Her Better Self

1917

The Colleen Bawn

19117.4

Primitive Man

1913

Tragedy of the Desert

19129.0

The Padrone's Plot

1913

The Bribe

1913

The Crooked Path

19158.0

A Virginia Feud

1913

A Son of Strife

19189.0

Through the Flames

19147.0

The Barefoot Boy

1914

The Fishermaid of Ballydavid

1911

The Fatal Legacy

19137.0

A Celebrated Case

1914

Ireland, the Oppressed

191210.0

The Scimitar of the Prophet

191310.0

The Hidden Witness

19138.0

The False Guardian

191410.0

Driving Home the Cows

1912

Vagabonds

1912

The Shadow

1914

Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec

1914

A Mississippi Tragedy

19137.0

The Show Girl's Glove

19148.0

The Haunting Fear

19158.0

The Stolen Ruby

1915

A Sawmill Hazard

1913

The Shaughraun

19127.0

The Storm at Sea

1914

Man's Greed for Gold

19137.0

Honor Thy Father

1915

The Destroyer

19159.0

The Poacher's Pardon

19127.0

The Menace of Fate

1914

The Devil's Dansant

19148.0

The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet

1914

A Victim of Heredity

191310.0

The Cabaret Dancer

1914

The Sign of the Broken Shackles

1915

The Man in Hiding

1915

Far from Erin's Isle

1912

The Wartime Siren

19139.0

The Scorpion's Sting

1915

A Desperate Chance

1913

The Blind Basket Weaver

19139.0

Into the Depths

1914

The Alien

191310.0

A Stolen Identity

1913

The Maker of Dreams

1915

The Peril of the Dance Hall

19139.0

The Message of the Palms

19137.0