Charles R. Bowers
June 7, 1889 (135 years old) in Creco, Iowa, USA
Charles R. Bowers was a cartoonist and slapstick comedian during the silent film and early "talkie" era. He was forgotten for decades and his name was notably absent from most histories of the Silent Era, although his work was enthusiastically reviewed by André Breton and a number of his contemporaries. As his surviving films were rediscovery he has been one of the greats of the silent film era; along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd
Known For
Credits
- 1939 · Pete-Roleum and His Cousins as Narrator (voice)
- 1930 · It's a Bird as Charley Chucklehead
- 1928 · Hop Off as
- 1928 · Say Ah-h! as The Ostrich Farm Handy Man
- 1928 · Whoozit as
- 1928 · There It Is as Charley MacNeesha
- 1927 · A Wild Roomer as
- 1927 · Nothing Doing as (as Charley Bowers)
- 1927 · Many a Slip as Charley (as Charley Bowers)
- 1926 · Now You Tell One as Mr. Bowers
- 1926 · Fatal Footsteps as Bricolo (as Charley Bowers)
- 1926 · He Done His Best as
- 1926 · Egged On as
- Future · Charley Bowers un Génie à Redécouvrir as