Alice Hollister
Age: N/A | From: Worcester - Massachusetts - USA
Person Details
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Worcester - Massachusetts - USA
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Movie Involvements: 80
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
From the Manger to the Cross
(1912) Mary Magdalene
The Forgotten Law
(1922) Rosalie
Milestones
(1920) Gertrude Rhead
A Voice in the Dark
(1921) Amelia Ellingham
The Colleen Bawn
(1911) Anne Chute
The Dancers
(1925) Mrs. Mayne
The Vampire
(1913) Sybil
Married Flirts
(1924) Mrs. CallenderActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Mrs. Mayne | |
| 1924 | Mrs. Callender | |
| 1922 | Rosalie | |
| 1921 | Carmen Dolores | |
| Amelia Ellingham | ||
| 1920 | Bianca | |
| Gertrude Rhead | ||
| 1918 | N/A | |
| Stella Hill | ||
| Xenia Vaskova | ||
| 1917 | Aggie May | |
| 1916 | Juana | |
| 1915 | Ruth Mason | |
| Irene Cross - a Tenant | ||
| Gabrielle - an Adventuress | ||
| Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart | ||
| Lorna Greene - the Daughter | ||
| Mary - an Orphan | ||
| Maritana | ||
| Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife | ||
| Katherine | ||
| Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter | ||
| Cherie - a Dancer | ||
| Grace - a Soubrette | ||
| Marcia Judson - an Adventuress | ||
| Lyda Marston - the Daughter | ||
| 1914 | Iola Neville - a Flirt | |
| Jessica Spear - an Adventuress | ||
| Mrs. Evelyn Dane | ||
| Margery Stanley - the Daughter | ||
| Marjory Priestman - the Wife | ||
| Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19 | ||
| Helen Graham - an Orphan | ||
| Ida McIntyre - Lawyer | ||
| N/A | ||
| Valerie Farrar - the Wife | ||
| Florence - a Stenographer | ||
| Eleanor Hastings - the Mother | ||
| Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums | ||
| Jane | ||
| Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer | ||
| Mary Redding - Kit's Wife | ||
| Marion Hall - Donald's Wife | ||
| Stella Desmond - the Show Girl | ||
| Katherine Lowther | ||
| Beth Bascom - the Daughter | ||
| N/A | ||
| Martha - Don's Sweetheart | ||
| Jane Dean - the Daughter | ||
| Alice Lund - the Wife | ||
| 1913 | N/A | |
| Tony's Wife | ||
| Betty - a Girl of the Mountains | ||
| Sybil | ||
| N/A | ||
| Maud Halleck - Jack's Wife | ||
| Dora Malcolm | ||
| Anna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart | ||
| Rose McDonald | ||
| Nancy - the Accomplice | ||
| Mildred Anderson | ||
| Bernice Hamilton - the Governess | ||
| Mrs. Constance Haverhill | ||
| Mary Brown - the Wife | ||
| Carmela - the Street Singer | ||
| Jane - the Thief's Daughter | ||
| Mrs. Carter | ||
| Josina - Paola's Wife | ||
| Doris Harris - his wife | ||
| N/A | ||
| Rosalie Ashby | ||
| Lovie Carlton - the Colonel's Daughter | ||
| Pepita Florenti | ||
| The Attorney's Wife | ||
| Ruth - the Telegraph Operator | ||
| Alice Hollister | ||
| 1912 | Moyra | |
| Peggy | ||
| Nora Drew | ||
| Mary Magdalene | ||
| Dora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter | ||
| Zorah | ||
| Hanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1911 | Anne Chute | |
| Bridesmaid | ||
| Pamela | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
