Alice Hollister

Acting · 0.5 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

The Brand

1914

A Sister's Burden

1915

The Siren's Reign

19157.0

Her Husband's Friend

191410.0

An Arabian Tragedy

19127.0

A Midnight Tragedy

1914

The Net of Deceit

1915

A Wise Fool

19219.0

The Terror of Conscience

19137.0

The Man of Iron

1914

The Great Lover

19208.0

The Dancers

19257.5

The Lost Diamond

1913

The Lotus Woman

19169.0

The Fiddler’s Requiem

19117.0

The Prosecuting Attorney

19137.0

The Money Gulf

1915

The Hate That Withers

191410.0

Her Bitter Lesson

19149.0

Dust of the Desert

1912

Shenandoah

191310.0

Primitive Man

1913

The Wheel of Death

19137.0

From the Manger to the Cross

19125.1

A Prisoner of the Harem

19129.0

By a Woman's Wit

19116.7

The Treasure Ship

1914

A Voice in the Dark

19218.0

Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec

1914

Married Flirts

19249.0

The Shadow

1914

The Forgotten Law

19223.3

The Fatal Legacy

19137.0

The Vampire's Trail

1914

Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler

19148.0

Milestones

19208.0

The Bribe

1913

The Knife

19186.0

Seed and the Harvest

1914

A Sawmill Hazard

1913

The Cabaret Dancer

1914

The Barefoot Boy

1914

The Colleen Bawn

19117.4

The Scimitar of the Prophet

191310.0

Frayed Fagin's Adventures

1913

A Mississippi Tragedy

19137.0

The Hidden Witness

19138.0

The Hand of Fate

19149.0

Ireland, the Oppressed

191210.0

The Hobo and the Myth

19139.0

The Little Gluers

19129.0

A Son of Strife

19189.0

Through the Flames

19147.0

Driving Home the Cows

1912

The Fishermaid of Ballydavid

1911

The Devil's Dansant

19148.0

Tragedy of the Desert

19129.0

The Sign of the Broken Shackles

1915

The Crooked Path

19158.0

The Poacher's Pardon

19127.0

The Man in Hiding

1915

The Menace of Fate

1914

The Destroyer

19159.0

The Padrone's Plot

1913

Her Better Self

1917

Vagabonds

1912

The Shaughraun

19127.0

A Virginia Feud

1913

Honor Thy Father

1915

The False Guardian

191410.0

The Stolen Ruby

1915

The Storm at Sea

1914

A Celebrated Case

1914

The Show Girl's Glove

19148.0

Man's Greed for Gold

19137.0

The Haunting Fear

19158.0

The Wartime Siren

19139.0

Into the Depths

1914

A Victim of Heredity

191310.0

The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet

1914

A Stolen Identity

1913

The Message of the Palms

19137.0

The Scorpion's Sting

1915

The Blind Basket Weaver

19139.0

Far from Erin's Isle

1912

The Peril of the Dance Hall

19139.0

The Alien

191310.0

The Maker of Dreams

1915

A Desperate Chance

1913