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