Charles R. Bowers

Biography

Charles R. Bowers was a cartoonist and slapstick comedian during the silent film and early "talkie" era. He was forgotten for decades and his name was notably absent from most histories of the Silent Era, although his work was enthusiastically reviewed by André Breton and a number of his contemporaries. As his surviving films were rediscovery he has been one of the greats of the silent film era; along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd

Known For

Egged On

There It Is

Now You Tell One

Hop Off

A Wild Roomer

It's a Bird

He Done His Best

Nothing Doing

All Movies (14)

• A la Recherche de Charley Bowers2003
• Pete-Roleum and His Cousins1939 · as Narrator (voice)
• It's a Bird1930 · as Charley Chucklehead
• Hop Off1928
• Say Ah-h!1928 · as The Ostrich Farm Handy Man
• Whoozit1928
• There It Is1928 · as Charley MacNeesha
• A Wild Roomer1927
• Nothing Doing1927 · as (as Charley Bowers)
• Many a Slip1927 · as Charley (as Charley Bowers)
• Now You Tell One1926 · as Mr. Bowers
• Fatal Footsteps1926 · as Bricolo (as Charley Bowers)
• He Done His Best1926
• Egged On1926