Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 28, 1886
Died
Feb 24, 1973
Place of Birth
Worcester - Massachusetts - USA
Credits
92 titles
Alice Hollister
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Dancers
Mrs. Mayne
Married Flirts
Mrs. Callender
The Forgotten Law
Rosalie
A Wise Fool
Carmen Dolores
A Voice in the Dark
Amelia Ellingham
The Great Lover
Bianca
Milestones
Gertrude Rhead
Loaded Dice
The Knife
Stella Hill
A Son of Strife
Xenia Vaskova
Her Better Self
Aggie May
The Lotus Woman
Juana
The Money Gulf
Ruth Mason
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
Irene Cross - a Tenant
The Net of Deceit
Gabrielle - an Adventuress
The Man in Hiding
Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart
The Maker of Dreams
Lorna Greene - the Daughter
The Crooked Path
Mary - an Orphan
Don Caesar de Bazan
Maritana
Honor Thy Father
Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife
The Haunting Fear
Katherine
A Sister's Burden
Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
The Destroyer
Cherie - a Dancer
The Siren's Reign
Grace - a Soubrette
The Stolen Ruby
Marcia Judson - an Adventuress
The Scorpion's Sting
Lyda Marston - the Daughter
The Hate That Withers
Iola Neville - a Flirt
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
Jessica Spear - an Adventuress
Her Bitter Lesson
Mrs. Evelyn Dane
The Man of Iron
Margery Stanley - the Daughter
A Midnight Tragedy
Marjory Priestman - the Wife
The Menace of Fate
Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
The False Guardian
Helen Graham - an Orphan
Seed and the Harvest
Ida McIntyre - Lawyer
Into the Depths
The Devil's Dansant
Valerie Farrar - the Wife
The Barefoot Boy
Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
The Hand of Fate
Florence - a Stenographer
The Brand
Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
The Storm at Sea
Jane
The Vampire's Trail
Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
Through the Flames
Marion Hall - Donald's Wife
The Show Girl's Glove
Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
The Treasure Ship
Beth Bascom - the Daughter
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
Katherine Lowther
A Celebrated Case
The Cabaret Dancer
Martha - Don's Sweetheart
The Shadow
Jane Dean - the Daughter
Her Husband's Friend
Alice Lund - the Wife