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