Acting
Alice Hollister
EN cinema · 92 credits
Born
28 September 1886
Died
24 February 1973 (aged 86)
Birthplace
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Also known as Rosalie Alice Amélie Berger
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
Filmography
The Dancers
as Mrs. Mayne
Married Flirts
as Mrs. Callender
The Forgotten Law
as Rosalie
A Wise Fool
as Carmen Dolores
A Voice in the Dark
as Amelia Ellingham
The Great Lover
as Bianca
Milestones
as Gertrude Rhead
The Knife
as Stella Hill
A Son of Strife
1918
A Son of Strife
as Xenia Vaskova
Her Better Self
as Aggie May
The Lotus Woman
as Juana
The Man in Hiding
1915
The Man in Hiding
as Ruth - Tom's Sweetheart
The Net of Deceit
1915
The Net of Deceit
as Gabrielle - an Adventuress
The Sign of the Broken Shackles
as Irene Cross - a Tenant
The Money Gulf
1915
The Money Gulf
as Ruth Mason
Honor Thy Father
1915
Honor Thy Father
as Alma Fenway - Chick's Wife
The Destroyer
as Cherie - a Dancer
A Sister's Burden
as Martha Hensley - the Elder Daughter
The Stolen Ruby
1915
The Stolen Ruby
as Marcia Judson - an Adventuress
The Siren's Reign
as Grace - a Soubrette
The Haunting Fear
as Katherine
Don Caesar de Bazan
as Maritana
The Maker of Dreams
as Lorna Greene - the Daughter
The Scorpion's Sting
as Lyda Marston - the Daughter
The Crooked Path
as Mary - an Orphan
Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec
as Katherine Lowther
Her Husband's Friend
1914
Her Husband's Friend
as Alice Lund - the Wife
The Shadow
1914
The Shadow
as Jane Dean - the Daughter
The Cabaret Dancer
as Martha - Don's Sweetheart
Through the Flames
1914
Through the Flames
as Marion Hall - Donald's Wife
The Treasure Ship
as Beth Bascom - the Daughter
The Show Girl's Glove
as Stella Desmond - the Show Girl
The Brand
as Rose Hayden - a Girl of the Slums
The Hand of Fate
1914
The Hand of Fate
as Florence - a Stenographer
The Devil's Dansant
as Valerie Farrar - the Wife
Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler
as Mary Redding - Kit's Wife
The Vampire's Trail
as Rita Caselli - a Cabaret Singer
Seed and the Harvest
1914
Seed and the Harvest
as Ida McIntyre - Lawyer
The Barefoot Boy
as Eleanor Hastings - the Mother
The False Guardian
1914
The False Guardian
as Helen Graham - an Orphan
The Menace of Fate
1914
The Menace of Fate
as Ethel WIlton - the Daughter, age 19
A Midnight Tragedy
1914
A Midnight Tragedy
as Marjory Priestman - the Wife
The Man of Iron
as Margery Stanley - the Daughter
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
1914
The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet
as Jessica Spear - an Adventuress
The Hate That Withers
1914
The Hate That Withers
as Iola Neville - a Flirt
Her Bitter Lesson
1914
Her Bitter Lesson
as Mrs. Evelyn Dane
A Victim of Heredity
1913
A Victim of Heredity
as Jane - the Thief's Daughter
The Terror of Conscience
as Carmela - the Street Singer
The Wheel of Death
1913
The Wheel of Death
as Mary Brown - the Wife
Shenandoah
as Mrs. Constance Haverhill
A Stolen Identity
as Mildred Anderson
The Lost Diamond
as Nancy - the Accomplice
The Hidden Witness
1913
The Hidden Witness
as Bernice Hamilton - the Governess
A Virginia Feud
as Rose McDonald
The Blind Basket Weaver
as Anna - Paul's Crippled Sweetheart
The Bribe
1913
The Bribe
as Dora Malcolm
The Fatal Legacy
as Maud Halleck - Jack's Wife
Primitive Man
as Betty - a Girl of the Mountains
The Message of the Palms
as Lovie Carlton - the Colonel's Daughter
The Prosecuting Attorney
as The Attorney's Wife
A Sawmill Hazard
1913
A Sawmill Hazard
as Alice Hollister
A Desperate Chance
1913
A Desperate Chance
as Ruth - the Telegraph Operator
The Peril of the Dance Hall
1913
The Peril of the Dance Hall
as Pepita Florenti
The Wartime Siren
as Rosalie Ashby
The Scimitar of the Prophet
as Doris Harris - his wife
The Alien
as Josina - Paola's Wife
Man's Greed for Gold
as Mrs. Carter
The Vampire
as Sybil
An Arabian Tragedy
as Hanifi (Slave Girl) Ayub's 2nd Wife
The Poacher's Pardon
as Dora - the Gamekeeper's Daughter
The Little Gluers
as Nora Drew
From the Manger to the Cross
as Mary Magdalene
Tragedy of the Desert
as Zenab, The Arab Girl
By a Woman's Wit
as Pamela
The Colleen Bawn
as Anne Chute