Alice Hollister
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.
92 acting credits
Acting · 92
The Forgotten Law
1922
The Dancers
1925
The Vampire
1913
Married Flirts
1924
From the Manger to the Cross
1912
Milestones
1920
A Sister's Burden
1915
A Wise Fool
1921
The Knife
1918
Don Caesar de Bazan
1915
The Fatal Legacy
1913
The Fiddler’s Requiem
1911
The Destroyer
1915
Primitive Man
1913
The Shaughraun
1912
A Sawmill Hazard
1913
The Haunting Fear
1915
The Shadow
1914
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
1914
The Scorpion's Sting
1915
The Bribe
1913
The Barefoot Boy
1914
The Scimitar of the Prophet
1913
The Great Lover
1920
Her Bitter Lesson
1914
The Padrone's Plot
1913
The Colleen Bawn
1911
Seed and the Harvest
1914
The Cabaret Dancer
1914
The Devil's Dansant
1914
The Hidden Witness
1913
A Voice in the Dark
1921
Ireland, the Oppressed
1912
The Siren's Reign
1915
The Prosecuting Attorney
1913
The Lost Diamond
1913
Shenandoah
1913
The Storm at Sea
1914
The Net of Deceit
1915
An Arabian Tragedy
1912
Tragedy of the Desert
1912
The Message of the Palms
1913
A Midnight Tragedy
1914
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
1914
Vagabonds
1912
The Hate That Withers
1914
Honor Thy Father
1915
The Wartime Siren
1913
A Desperate Chance
1913
The Crooked Path
1915
Through the Flames
1914
A Mississippi Tragedy
1913
The Blind Basket Weaver
1913
The Brand
1914
The Alien
1913
The Hand of Fate
1914
Her Husband's Friend
1914
The Man of Iron
1914
The Little Gluers
1912
The False Guardian
1914
The Vampire's Trail
1914
Her Better Self
1917
The Stolen Ruby
1915
A Celebrated Case
1914
Loaded Dice
1918
The Hobo and the Myth
1913
The Terror of Conscience
1913
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
1915
By a Woman's Wit
1911
A Prisoner of the Harem
1912
The Man in Hiding
1915
Dust of the Desert
1912
The Menace of Fate
1914
A Son of Strife
1918
A Victim of Heredity
1913
The Show Girl's Glove
1914
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
1914
Driving Home the Cows
1912
The Peril of the Dance Hall
1913
The Poacher's Pardon
1912
Into the Depths
1914
Far from Erin's Isle
1912
The Money Gulf
1915
Man's Greed for Gold
1913
The Lotus Woman
1916
The Wheel of Death
1913
A Virginia Feud
1913
The Maker of Dreams
1915
A Stolen Identity
1913
Frayed Fagin's Adventures
1913
The Treasure Ship
1914
The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
1911