Alice Hollister
Known for: Acting
Born: September 28, 1886
Died: February 24, 1973
Place of birth: Worcester - Massachusetts - USA
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.
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Filmography
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7.5
The Dancers
1925
9.0
Married Flirts
1924
3.3
The Forgotten Law
1922
9.0
A Wise Fool
1921
8.0
A Voice in the Dark
1921
8.0
The Great Lover
1920
8.0
Milestones
1920
NR
Loaded Dice
1918
6.0
The Knife
19189.0
A Son of Strife
1918
NR
Her Better Self
1917
9.0
The Lotus Woman
1916NR
The Money Gulf
1915
NR
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
1915NR
The Net of Deceit
1915NR
The Man in Hiding
1915
NR
The Maker of Dreams
1915
8.0
The Crooked Path
1915
NR
Don Caesar de Bazan
1915NR
Honor Thy Father
1915
8.0
The Haunting Fear
1915
NR
A Sister's Burden
1915
9.0
The Destroyer
1915
7.0
The Siren's Reign
1915NR
The Stolen Ruby
1915
NR
The Scorpion's Sting
191510.0
The Hate That Withers
1914NR
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
19149.0
Her Bitter Lesson
1914
NR
The Man of Iron
1914NR
A Midnight Tragedy
1914NR
The Menace of Fate
191410.0
The False Guardian
1914NR
Seed and the Harvest
1914NR
Into the Depths
1914
8.0
The Devil's Dansant
19149.0
The Hand of Fate
1914
NR
The Barefoot Boy
1914
NR
The Brand
1914NR
The Storm at Sea
1914
NR
The Vampire's Trail
1914
8.0
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
19147.0
Through the Flames
1914
8.0
The Show Girl's Glove
1914
NR
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
1914
NR
The Treasure Ship
1914NR
A Celebrated Case
1914
NR
The Cabaret Dancer
1914NR
The Shadow
191410.0
Her Husband's Friend
1914
NR
Frayed Fagin's Adventures
1913NR
The Padrone's Plot
1913
NR
Primitive Man
1913
6.5
The Vampire
19139.0
The Hobo and the Myth
1913
7.0
The Fatal Legacy
1913NR
The Bribe
1913
9.0
The Blind Basket Weaver
1913
NR
A Virginia Feud
1913
NR
The Lost Diamond
1913
NR
A Stolen Identity
19138.0
The Hidden Witness
1913
10.0
Shenandoah
19137.0
The Wheel of Death
1913
7.0
The Terror of Conscience
191310.0
A Victim of Heredity
1913
7.0
Man's Greed for Gold
1913
10.0
The Alien
1913
10.0
The Scimitar of the Prophet
1913
7.0
A Mississippi Tragedy
1913
9.0
The Wartime Siren
1913
7.0
The Message of the Palms
19139.0
The Peril of the Dance Hall
1913
7.0
The Prosecuting Attorney
1913NR
A Desperate Chance
1913NR
A Sawmill Hazard
19137.0
The Shaughraun
1912
10.0
Ireland, the Oppressed
1912
9.0
The Little Gluers
1912
5.1
From the Manger to the Cross
1912
7.0
The Poacher's Pardon
19129.0
A Prisoner of the Harem
1912
9.0
Tragedy of the Desert
1912
7.0
An Arabian Tragedy
1912
NR
Dust of the Desert
1912NR
Far from Erin's Isle
1912NR
Vagabonds
1912NR
Driving Home the Cows
1912NR
The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
1911
7.4
The Colleen Bawn
19117.0
The Fiddler’s Requiem
1911
6.7
By a Woman's Wit
1911