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

From the Manger to the Cross

The Forgotten Law

Her Better Self

The Siren's Reign

The Fatal Legacy

The Barefoot Boy

A Voice in the Dark

The Vampire's Trail

All Movies (92)

• The Dancers1925 · as Mrs. Mayne
• Married Flirts1924 · as Mrs. Callender
• The Forgotten Law1922 · as Rosalie
• A Wise Fool1921 · as Carmen Dolores
• A Voice in the Dark1921 · as Amelia Ellingham
• The Great Lover1920 · as Bianca
• Milestones1920 · as Gertrude Rhead
• Loaded Dice1918
• The Knife1918 · as Stella Hill
• A Son of Strife1918 · as Xenia Vaskova
• Her Better Self1917 · as Aggie May
• The Lotus Woman1916 · as Juana
• The Money Gulf1915 · as Ruth Mason
• The Sign of the Broken Shackles1915 · as Irene Cross - a Tenant
• The Net of Deceit1915 · as Gabrielle - an Adventuress
• The Man in Hiding1915 · as Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart
• The Maker of Dreams1915 · as Lorna Greene - the Daughter
• The Crooked Path1915 · as Mary - an Orphan
• Don Caesar de Bazan1915 · as Maritana
• Honor Thy Father1915 · as Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife
• The Haunting Fear1915 · as Katherine
• A Sister's Burden1915 · as Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
• The Destroyer1915 · as Cherie - a Dancer
• The Siren's Reign1915 · as Grace - a Soubrette
• The Stolen Ruby1915 · as Marcia Judson - an Adventuress
• The Scorpion's Sting1915 · as Lyda Marston - the Daughter
• The Hate That Withers1914 · as Iola Neville - a Flirt
• The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet1914 · as Jessica Spear - an Adventuress
• Her Bitter Lesson1914 · as Mrs. Evelyn Dane
• The Man of Iron1914 · as Margery Stanley - the Daughter
• A Midnight Tragedy1914 · as Marjory Priestman - the Wife
• The Menace of Fate1914 · as Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
• The False Guardian1914 · as Helen Graham - an Orphan
• Seed and the Harvest1914 · as Ida McIntyre - Lawyer
• Into the Depths1914
• The Devil's Dansant1914 · as Valerie Farrar - the Wife
• The Hand of Fate1914 · as Florence - a Stenographer
• The Barefoot Boy1914 · as Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
• The Brand1914 · as Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
• The Storm at Sea1914 · as Jane
• The Vampire's Trail1914 · as Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
• Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler1914 · as Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
• Through the Flames1914 · as Marion Hall - Donald's Wife
• The Show Girl's Glove1914 · as Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
• Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec1914 · as Katherine Lowther
• The Treasure Ship1914 · as Beth Bascom - the Daughter
• A Celebrated Case1914
• The Cabaret Dancer1914 · as Martha - Don's Sweetheart
• The Shadow1914 · as Jane Dean - the Daughter
• Her Husband's Friend1914 · as Alice Lund - the Wife
• Frayed Fagin's Adventures1913
• The Padrone's Plot1913 · as Tony's Wife
• Primitive Man1913 · as Betty - a Girl of the Mountains
• The Vampire1913 · as Sybil
• The Hobo and the Myth1913
• The Fatal Legacy1913 · as Maud Halleck - Jack's Wife
• The Bribe1913 · as Dora Malcolm
• The Blind Basket Weaver1913 · as Anna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart
• A Virginia Feud1913 · as Rose McDonald
• The Lost Diamond1913 · as Nancy - the Accomplice
• A Stolen Identity1913 · as Mildred Anderson
• The Hidden Witness1913 · as Bernice Hamilton - the Governess
• Shenandoah1913 · as Mrs. Constance Haverhill
• The Wheel of Death1913 · as Mary Brown - the Wife
• The Terror of Conscience1913 · as Carmela - the Street Singer
• A Victim of Heredity1913 · as Jane - the Thief's Daughter
• Man's Greed for Gold1913 · as Mrs. Carter
• The Alien1913 · as Josina - Paola's Wife
• The Scimitar of the Prophet1913 · as Doris Harris - his wife
• A Mississippi Tragedy1913
• The Wartime Siren1913 · as Rosalie Ashby
• The Message of the Palms1913 · as Lovie Carlton - the Colonel's Daughter
• The Peril of the Dance Hall1913 · as Pepita Florenti
• The Prosecuting Attorney1913 · as The Attorney's Wife
• A Desperate Chance1913 · as Ruth - the Telegraph Operator
• A Sawmill Hazard1913 · as Alice Hollister
• The Shaughraun1912 · as Moyra
• Ireland, the Oppressed1912 · as Peggy
• The Little Gluers1912 · as Nora Drew
• From the Manger to the Cross1912 · as Mary Magdalene
• The Poacher's Pardon1912 · as Dora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter
• A Prisoner of the Harem1912 · as Zorah
• Tragedy of the Desert1912 · as Zenab, The Arab Girl
• An Arabian Tragedy1912 · as Hanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife
• Dust of the Desert1912
• Far from Erin's Isle1912
• Vagabonds1912 · as Jane
• Driving Home the Cows1912
• The Fishermaid of Ballydavid1911 · as Policeman's Wife
• The Colleen Bawn1911 · as Anne Chute
• The Fiddler’s Requiem1911 · as Bridesmaid
• By a Woman's Wit1911 · as Pamela