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
Acting
1917
asAggie May
1924
asMrs. Callender
1918
as
1914
asKatherine Lowther
1913
asCarmela - the Street Singer
1913
asJane - the Thief's Daughter
1913
asMary Brown - the Wife
1913
asMildred Anderson
1913
asNancy - the Accomplice
1913
asMrs. Constance Haverhill
1913
asBernice Hamilton - the Governess
1913
asRose McDonald
1913
asAnna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart
1913
asDora Malcolm
1913
asBetty - a Girl of the Mountains
1913
asMaud Halleck - Jack's Wife
1913
as1913
asTony's Wife
1913
as1914
asAlice Lund - the Wife
1914
asMartha - Don's Sweetheart
1914
asJane Dean - the Daughter
1914
as
1914
asStella Desmond - the Show Girl
1914
asMarion Hall - Donald's Wife
1914
asBeth Bascom - the Daughter
1914
asJane
1914
asRose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
1914
asMary Redding - Kit's Wife
1914
asFlorence - a Stenographer
1914
asValerie Farrar - the Wife
1915
asRuth - Tom's Sweetheart
1915
asGabrielle - an Adventuress
1912
as
1912
as
1912
asDora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter
1912
asHanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife
1912
asZorah
1915
asRuth Mason
1915
asIrene Cross - a Tenant
1912
asNora Drew
1912
asPeggy
1913
asThe Attorney's Wife
1918
asXenia Vaskova
1913
asRuth - the Telegraph Operator
1913
asPepita Florenti
1913
asAlice Hollister
1912
asMoyra
1913
asLovie Carlton - the Colonel's Daughter
1918
asStella Hill
1921
asAmelia Ellingham
1921
asCarmen Dolores
1913
as
1914
asRita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
1913
asJosina - Paola's Wife
1913
asDoris Harris - his wife
1916
asJuana
1913
asMrs. Carter
1913
asRosalie Ashby
1914
as
1922
asRosalie
1914
asEleanor Hastings - the Mother
1914
asEthel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
1914
asIda McIntyre - Lawyer
1914
asMarjory Priestman - the Wife
1914
asHelen Graham - an Orphan
1915
asMarcia Judson - an Adventuress
1914
asMargery Stanley - the Daughter
1914
asIola Neville - a Flirt
1915
asKatherine
1915
asMary - an Orphan
1914
asJessica Spear - an Adventuress
1915
asAlma Fenway - Chick's Wife
1915
asMartha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
1915
asCherie - a Dancer
1915
asLyda Marston - the Daughter
1914
asMrs. Evelyn Dane
1915
asGrace - a Soubrette
1915
asMaritana
1915
asLorna Greene - the Daughter
1920
asBianca
1912
asMary Magdalene
1913
asSybil
1911
asPamela
1925
asMrs. Mayne
1911
asAnne Chute
1911
asBridesmaid
1920
asGertrude Rhead
1912
asZenab, The Arab Girl
1912
as1912
asJane
1911
asPoliceman's Wife
Production
Crew
Directing
