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 Dumb Cluck ... (Writer)
- The Mechanical Handy Man ... (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
- Many a Slip as Charley (as Charley Bowers)
- The Globe Trotters ... (Director)
1926
- Egged On
- Fatal Footsteps as Bricolo (as Charley Bowers)
- Dog Gone ... (Director)
- Slick Sleuths ... (Director)
- Westward Whoa ... (Director)
- He Done His Best
- Now You Tell One as Mr. Bowers
- Ups and Downs ... (Director)
- Mummy O'Mine ... (Director)
- When Hell Freezes Over ... (Director)
- The Big Swim ... (Director)
- Playing with Fire ... (Director)
- Bombs and Bums ... (Director)
- 'Lots' of Water ... (Director)
- A Stretch in Time ... (Director)
1925
- Invisible Revenge ... (Director)
- Where Am I? ... (Director)
- Soda Jerks ... (Director)
- Mixing in Mexico ... (Director)
- Oceans of Trouble ... (Director)
- Accidents Won't Happen ... (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)