Alice Hollister
Acting
Born September 28, 1886 · 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.
Films (92)
The Dancers
1925
Married Flirts
1924
The Forgotten Law
1922
A Wise Fool
1921
A Voice in the Dark
1921
The Great Lover
1920
Milestones
1920
Loaded Dice
1918
The Knife
1918
A Son of Strife
1918
Her Better Self
1917
The Lotus Woman
1916
The Money Gulf
1915
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
1915
The Net of Deceit
1915
The Man in Hiding
1915
The Maker of Dreams
1915
The Crooked Path
1915
Don Caesar de Bazan
1915
Honor Thy Father
1915
The Haunting Fear
1915
A Sister's Burden
1915
The Destroyer
1915
The Siren's Reign
1915
The Stolen Ruby
1915
The Scorpion's Sting
1915
The Hate That Withers
1914
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
1914
Her Bitter Lesson
1914
The Man of Iron
1914
A Midnight Tragedy
1914
The Menace of Fate
1914
The False Guardian
1914
Seed and the Harvest
1914
Into the Depths
1914
The Devil's Dansant
1914
The Hand of Fate
1914
The Barefoot Boy
1914
The Brand
1914
The Storm at Sea
1914
The Vampire's Trail
1914
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
1914
Through the Flames
1914
The Show Girl's Glove
1914
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
1914
The Treasure Ship
1914
A Celebrated Case
1914
The Cabaret Dancer
1914
The Shadow
1914
Her Husband's Friend
1914
Frayed Fagin's Adventures
1913
The Padrone's Plot
1913
Primitive Man
1913
The Vampire
1913
The Hobo and the Myth
1913
The Fatal Legacy
1913
The Bribe
1913
The Blind Basket Weaver
1913
A Virginia Feud
1913
The Lost Diamond
1913
A Stolen Identity
1913
The Hidden Witness
1913
Shenandoah
1913
The Wheel of Death
1913
The Terror of Conscience
1913
A Victim of Heredity
1913
Man's Greed for Gold
1913
The Alien
1913
The Scimitar of the Prophet
1913
A Mississippi Tragedy
1913
The Wartime Siren
1913
The Message of the Palms
1913
The Peril of the Dance Hall
1913
The Prosecuting Attorney
1913
A Desperate Chance
1913
A Sawmill Hazard
1913
The Shaughraun
1912
Ireland, the Oppressed
1912
The Little Gluers
1912
From the Manger to the Cross
1912
The Poacher's Pardon
1912
A Prisoner of the Harem
1912
Tragedy of the Desert
1912
An Arabian Tragedy
1912
Dust of the Desert
1912
Far from Erin's Isle
1912
Vagabonds
1912
Driving Home the Cows
1912
The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
1911
The Colleen Bawn
1911
The Fiddler’s Requiem
1911
By a Woman's Wit
1911