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 Dumb Cluck ... (Writer)
- The Keeper of the Lions ... (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
- Fatal Footsteps as Bricolo (as Charley Bowers)
- Egged On
- Dog Gone ... (Director)
- Westward Whoa ... (Director)
- Slick Sleuths ... (Director)
- 'Lots' of Water ... (Director)
- He Done His Best
- Now You Tell One as Mr. Bowers
- Bombs and Bums ... (Director)
- The Big Swim ... (Director)
- When Hell Freezes Over ... (Director)
- Ups and Downs ... (Director)
- Playing with Fire ... (Director)
- A Stretch in Time ... (Director)
- Mummy O'Mine ... (Director)
1925
- Invisible Revenge ... (Director)
- Soda Jerks ... (Director)
- Accidents Won't Happen ... (Director)
- Oceans of Trouble ... (Director)
- Where Am I? ... (Director)
- Mixing in Mexico ... (Director)
- A Link Missing ... (Director)
1920
- On Strike ... (Writer)
- Mutt and Jeff in the Movies ... (Director)
1918
- A.W.O.L. ... (Director)
- The Extra-Quick Lunch ... (Director)