Alice Hollister
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1886-09-28
Day of Death
1973-02-24 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Worcester - Massachusetts - USA
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.
Acting
(1925)
The Dancers
as Mrs. Mayne
(1924)
Married Flirts
as Mrs. Callender
(1922)
The Forgotten Law
as Rosalie
(1921)
A Wise Fool
as Carmen Dolores
(1921)
A Voice in the Dark
as Amelia Ellingham
(1920)
Milestones
as Gertrude Rhead
(1920)
The Great Lover
as Bianca
(1918)
The Knife
as Stella Hill
(1918)
(1918)
A Son of Strife
as Xenia Vaskova
(1917)
Her Better Self
as Aggie May
(1916)
The Lotus Woman
as Juana
(1915)
The Crooked Path
as Mary - an Orphan
(1915)
The Destroyer
as Cherie - a Dancer
(1915)
Don Caesar de Bazan
as Maritana
(1915)
Honor Thy Father
as Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife
(1915)
The Man in Hiding
as Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart
(1915)
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
as Irene Cross - a Tenant
(1915)
The Siren's Reign
as Grace - a Soubrette
(1915)
The Haunting Fear
as Katherine
(1915)
The Money Gulf
as Ruth Mason
(1915)
A Sister's Burden
as Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
(1915)
The Maker of Dreams
as Lorna Greene - the Daughter
(1915)
The Net of Deceit
as Gabrielle - an Adventuress
(1915)
The Stolen Ruby
as Marcia Judson - an Adventuress
(1915)
The Scorpion's Sting
as Lyda Marston - the Daughter
(1914)
The Barefoot Boy
as Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
(1914)
(1914)
The Cabaret Dancer
as Martha - Don's Sweetheart
(1914)
The Vampire's Trail
as Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
(1914)
The Treasure Ship
as Beth Bascom - the Daughter
(1914)
The Show Girl's Glove
as Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
(1914)
The Hate That Withers
as Iola Neville - a Flirt
(1914)
The Brand
as Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
(1914)
The Shadow
as Jane Dean - the Daughter
(1914)
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
as Katherine Lowther
(1914)
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
as Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
(1914)
The Menace of Fate
as Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
(1914)
A Midnight Tragedy
as Marjory Priestman - the Wife
(1914)
The Devil's Dansant
as Valerie Farrar - the Wife
(1914)
(1914)
Her Bitter Lesson
as Mrs. Evelyn Dane
(1914)
Her Husband's Friend
as Alice Lund - the Wife
(1914)
The False Guardian
as Helen Graham - an Orphan
(1914)
The Storm at Sea
as Jane
(1914)
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
as Jessica Spear - an Adventuress
(1914)
Through the Flames
as Marion Hall - Donald's Wife
(1914)
Seed and the Harvest
as Ida McIntyre - Lawyer
(1914)
The Man of Iron
as Margery Stanley - the Daughter
(1914)
The Hand of Fate
as Florence - a Stenographer
(1913)
The Fatal Legacy
as Maud Halleck - Jack's Wife
(1913)
A Sawmill Hazard
as Alice Hollister
(1913)
The Wartime Siren
as Rosalie Ashby
(1913)
A Virginia Feud
as Rose McDonald
(1913)
Primitive Man
as Betty - a Girl of the Mountains
(1913)
(1913)
A Stolen Identity
as Mildred Anderson
(1913)
The Vampire
as Sybil
(1913)
The Alien
as Josina - Paola's Wife
(1913)
The Message of the Palms
as Lovie Carlton - the Colonel's Daughter
(1913)
The Wheel of Death
as Mary Brown - the Wife
(1913)
Shenandoah
as Mrs. Constance Haverhill
(1913)
The Hidden Witness
as Bernice Hamilton - the Governess
(1913)
The Bribe
as Dora Malcolm
(1913)
Man's Greed for Gold
as Mrs. Carter
(1913)
The Prosecuting Attorney
as The Attorney's Wife
(1913)
(1913)
The Lost Diamond
as Nancy - the Accomplice
(1913)
The Scimitar of the Prophet
as Doris Harris - his wife
(1913)
A Desperate Chance
as Ruth - the Telegraph Operator
(1913)
A Victim of Heredity
as Jane - the Thief's Daughter
(1913)
The Terror of Conscience
as Carmela - the Street Singer
(1913)
The Padrone's Plot
as Tony's Wife
(1913)
(1913)
The Blind Basket Weaver
as Anna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart
(1913)
The Peril of the Dance Hall
as Pepita Florenti
(1912)
The Shaughraun
as Moyra
(1912)
From the Manger to the Cross
as Mary Magdalene
(1912)
Vagabonds
as Jane
(1912)
Ireland, the Oppressed
as Peggy
(1912)
An Arabian Tragedy
as Hanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife
(1912)
The Little Gluers
as Nora Drew
(1912)
A Prisoner of the Harem
as Zorah
(1912)
The Poacher's Pardon
as Dora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter
(1912)
(1912)
(1912)
Tragedy of the Desert
as Zenab, The Arab Girl
(1912)
(1911)
The Colleen Bawn
as Anne Chute
(1911)
The Fiddler’s Requiem
as Bridesmaid
(1911)
By a Woman's Wit
as Pamela
(1911)
The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
as Policeman's Wife