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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
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Movies 90
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The Dancers (1925)

Married Flirts (1924)

A Wise Fool (1921)

A Voice in the Dark (1921)

Milestones (1920)

Loaded Dice (1918)

The Knife (1918)

A Son of Strife (1918)

Her Better Self (1917)

The Money Gulf (1915)

The Sign of the Broken Shackles (1915)

The Net of Deceit (1915)

The Man in Hiding (1915)

The Maker of Dreams (1915)

The Crooked Path (1915)

Don Caesar de Bazan (1915)

Honor Thy Father (1915)

The Haunting Fear (1915)

A Sister's Burden (1915)

The Destroyer (1915)

The Siren's Reign (1915)

The Stolen Ruby (1915)

The Scorpion's Sting (1915)

The Hate That Withers (1914)

The Mystery of the Yellow Sunbonnet (1914)

Her Bitter Lesson (1914)

The Man of Iron (1914)

A Midnight Tragedy (1914)

The Menace of Fate (1914)

The False Guardian (1914)

Seed and the Harvest (1914)

Into the Depths (1914)

The Devil's Dansant (1914)

The Hand of Fate (1914)

The Barefoot Boy (1914)

The Brand (1914)

The Vampire's Trail (1914)

Kit, the Arkansaw Traveler (1914)

Through the Flames (1914)

The Show Girl's Glove (1914)

Wolfe or the Conquest of Quebec (1914)

The Treasure Ship (1914)

The Bribe (1914)

The Cabaret Dancer (1914)

The Shadow (1914)

Her Husband's Friend (1914)

The Padrone's Plot (1913)

Primitive Man (1913)

The Vampire (1913)

The Fatal Legacy (1913)

The Bribe (1913)

The Blind Basket Weaver (1913)

A Virginia Feud (1913)

The Lost Diamond (1913)

A Stolen Identity (1913)

The Hidden Witness (1913)

Shenandoah (1913)

The Wheel of Death (1913)

The Terror of Conscience (1913)

A Victim of Heredity (1913)

Man's Greed for Gold (1913)

The Alien (1913)

The Scimitar of the Prophet (1913)

The Wartime Siren (1913)

The Message of the Palms (1913)

The Peril of the Dance Hall (1913)

The Prosecuting Attorney (1913)

A Desperate Chance (1913)

A Sawmill Hazard (1913)

The Little Gluers (1912)

From the Manger to the Cross (1912)

The Poacher's Pardon (1912)

Tragedy of the Desert (1912)

An Arabian Tragedy (1912)

The Colleen Bawn (1911)

The Fiddler’s Requiem (1911)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1886-09-28
Deathday1973-02-24 (86 years old)
Birth PlaceWorcester, United States
RelationshipsGeorge K. Hollister (1903 - 1952)
ChildrenDoris Hollister, George Hollister Jr.
CitizenshipsUnited States
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