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 Mechanical Handy Man ... (Writer)
- The Dumb Cluck ... (Writer)
- The Keeper of the Lions ... (Writer)
1935
- Believe it or Don't ... (Director)
1930
- It's a Bird as Charley Chucklehead
1928
- Hop Off
- There It Is as Charley MacNeesha
- Say Ah-h! as The Ostrich Farm Handy Man
- Whoozit
1927
- A Wild Roomer
- Nothing Doing as (as Charley Bowers)
- Many a Slip as Charley (as Charley Bowers)
- The Globe Trotters ... (Director)
1926
- Egged On
- He Done His Best
- Now You Tell One as Mr. Bowers
- Fatal Footsteps as Bricolo (as Charley Bowers)
- Dog Gone ... (Director)
- Ups and Downs ... (Director)
- When Hell Freezes Over ... (Director)
- Playing with Fire ... (Director)
- Bombs and Bums ... (Director)
- A Stretch in Time ... (Director)
- Slick Sleuths ... (Director)
- Westward Whoa ... (Director)
- Mummy O'Mine ... (Director)
- The Big Swim ... (Director)
- 'Lots' of Water ... (Director)
1925
- A Link Missing ... (Director)
- Soda Jerks ... (Director)
- Where Am I? ... (Director)
- Invisible Revenge ... (Director)
- Accidents Won't Happen ... (Director)
- Oceans of Trouble ... (Director)
- Mixing in Mexico ... (Director)
1920
- Mutt and Jeff in the Movies ... (Director)
- On Strike ... (Writer)
1918
- A.W.O.L. ... (Director)
- The Extra-Quick Lunch ... (Director)