Charles R. Bowers
Born: 1889-06-07 in Creco, Iowa, USA
Died: 1946-11-26
Known For: Directing
Biography
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
Filmography
1981
- Scanners ... (Sound Editor)
1969
- The Adding Machine ... (Sound Editor)
1941
- Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters ... (Director)
1940
- A Sleepless Night ... (Director)
1939
- Pete Roleum and His Cousins as Narrator (voice)
1937
- The Keeper of the Lions ... (Writer)
- The Mechanical Handy Man ... (Writer)
- The Dumb Cluck ... (Writer)
1935
- Believe it or Don't ... (Director)
1930
- It's a Bird as Charley Chucklehead
1928
- Hop Off
- Whoozit
- Say Ah-h! as The Ostrich Farm Handy Man
- There It Is as Charley MacNeesha
1927
- Nothing Doing as (as Charley Bowers)
- A Wild Roomer
- The Globe Trotters ... (Director)
- Many a Slip as Charley (as Charley Bowers)
1926
- Dog Gone ... (Director)
- Westward Whoa ... (Director)
- Slick Sleuths ... (Director)
- Fatal Footsteps as Bricolo (as Charley Bowers)
- Egged On
- Now You Tell One as Mr. Bowers
- He Done His Best
- When Hell Freezes Over ... (Director)
- Bombs and Bums ... (Director)
- Ups and Downs ... (Director)
- Playing with Fire ... (Director)
- The Big Swim ... (Director)
- 'Lots' of Water ... (Director)
- Mummy O'Mine ... (Director)
- A Stretch in Time ... (Director)
1925
- Soda Jerks ... (Director)
- Invisible Revenge ... (Director)
- Where Am I? ... (Director)
- Accidents Won't Happen ... (Director)
- Mixing in Mexico ... (Director)
- Oceans of Trouble ... (Director)
- A Link Missing ... (Director)
1920
- On Strike ... (Writer)
- Mutt and Jeff in the Movies ... (Director)
1918
- The Extra-Quick Lunch ... (Director)
- A.W.O.L. ... (Director)