Alice Hollister
female
Born on September 28, 1886 (138 years old)
Passed Away on February 24, 1973
From Worcester - Massachusetts - USA
Known for Acting
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.
Cast Credits
- 1925
- 1924
- 1922
- 1921
- 1920
- 1918
- 1917
- 1916
- 1915
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The Man in Hiding
as
Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart
1915
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The Net of Deceit
as
Gabrielle - an Adventuress
1915
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
as
Irene Cross - a Tenant
1915
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The Money Gulf
as
Ruth Mason
1915
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Honor Thy Father
as
Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife
1915
The Destroyer
as
Cherie - a Dancer
1915
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A Sister's Burden
as
Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
1915
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The Stolen Ruby
as
Marcia Judson - an Adventuress
1915
The Siren's Reign
as
Grace - a Soubrette
1915
The Haunting Fear
as
Katherine
1915
Don Caesar de Bazan
as
Maritana
1915
The Maker of Dreams
as
Lorna Greene - the Daughter
1915
The Scorpion's Sting
as
Lyda Marston - the Daughter
1915
The Crooked Path
as
Mary - an Orphan
1915
- 1914
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
as
Katherine Lowther
1914
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Her Husband's Friend
as
Alice Lund - the Wife
1914
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The Shadow
as
Jane Dean - the Daughter
1914
The Cabaret Dancer
as
Martha - Don's Sweetheart
1914
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Through the Flames
as
Marion Hall - Donald's Wife
1914
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A Celebrated Case
1914
The Treasure Ship
as
Beth Bascom - the Daughter
1914
The Show Girl's Glove
as
Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
1914
The Brand
as
Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
1914
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The Hand of Fate
as
Florence - a Stenographer
1914
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The Storm at Sea
as
Jane
1914
The Devil's Dansant
as
Valerie Farrar - the Wife
1914
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
as
Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
1914
The Vampire's Trail
as
Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
1914
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Into the Depths
1914
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Seed and the Harvest
as
Ida McIntyre - Lawyer
1914
The Barefoot Boy
as
Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
1914
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The False Guardian
as
Helen Graham - an Orphan
1914
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The Menace of Fate
as
Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
1914
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A Midnight Tragedy
as
Marjory Priestman - the Wife
1914
The Man of Iron
as
Margery Stanley - the Daughter
1914
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The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
as
Jessica Spear - an Adventuress
1914
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The Hate That Withers
as
Iola Neville - a Flirt
1914
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Her Bitter Lesson
as
Mrs. Evelyn Dane
1914
- 1913
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A Victim of Heredity
as
Jane - the Thief's Daughter
1913
The Terror of Conscience
as
Carmela - the Street Singer
1913
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The Wheel of Death
as
Mary Brown - the Wife
1913
Shenandoah
as
Mrs. Constance Haverhill
1913
A Stolen Identity
as
Mildred Anderson
1913
The Lost Diamond
as
Nancy - the Accomplice
1913
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The Hidden Witness
as
Bernice Hamilton - the Governess
1913
A Virginia Feud
as
Rose McDonald
1913
The Blind Basket Weaver
as
Anna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart
1913
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The Bribe
as
Dora Malcolm
1913
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The Hobo and the Myth
1913
The Fatal Legacy
as
Maud Halleck - Jack's Wife
1913
Frayed Fagin's Adventures
1913
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The Padrone's Plot
as
Tony's Wife
1913
Primitive Man
as
Betty - a Girl of the Mountains
1913
The Message of the Palms
as
Lovie Carlton - the Colonel's Daughter
1913
The Prosecuting Attorney
as
The Attorney's Wife
1913
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A Sawmill Hazard
as
Alice Hollister
1913
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A Desperate Chance
as
Ruth - the Telegraph Operator
1913
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The Peril of the Dance Hall
as
Pepita Florenti
1913
The Wartime Siren
as
Rosalie Ashby
1913
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A Mississippi Tragedy
1913
The Scimitar of the Prophet
as
Doris Harris - his wife
1913
The Alien
as
Josina - Paola's Wife
1913
Man's Greed for Gold
as
Mrs. Carter
1913
The Vampire
as
Sybil
1913
- 1912
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Driving Home the Cows
1912
Dust of the Desert
1912
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A Prisoner of the Harem
as
Zorah
1912
An Arabian Tragedy
as
Hanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife
1912
The Poacher's Pardon
as
Dora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter
1912
Ireland, the Oppressed
as
Peggy
1912
The Little Gluers
as
Nora Drew
1912
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The Shaughraun
as
Moyra
1912
From the Manger to the Cross
as
Mary Magdalene
1912
Tragedy of the Desert
as
Zenab, The Arab Girl
1912
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Far from Erin's Isle
1912
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Vagabonds
as
Jane
1912
- 1911
