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