Charles R. Bowers
- Directing
- June 7, 1889 · Creco, Iowa, USA
- November 26, 1946
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
Known for
Filmography
- A la Recherche de Charley Bowers
- Scanners · Sound Editor
- The Adding Machine · Sound Editor
- Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters · Director, Writer
- A Sleepless Night · Director, Screenplay
- Pete Roleum and His Cousins · Narrator (Voice), Animation
- The Dumb Cluck · Writer
- The Mechanical Handy Man · Writer
- The Keeper of the Lions · Writer
- Believe it or Don't · Director, Writer
- It's a Bird · Charley Chucklehead, Special Effects
- Hop Off · Director
- Say Ah-h! · The Ostrich Farm Handy Man, Director
- Whoozit · Director, Writer
- There It Is · Charley MacNeesha, Director
- The Globe Trotters · Director
- A Wild Roomer · Director, Writer
- Nothing Doing · (as Charley Bowers), Director
- Many a Slip · Charley (as Charley Bowers), Director
- Now You Tell One · Mr. Bowers, Director
- Fatal Footsteps · Bricolo (as Charley Bowers), Director
- Mummy O'Mine · Director
- He Done His Best · Director, Writer
- The Big Swim · Director
- Dog Gone · Director
- Egged On · Producer, Director
- Playing with Fire · Director
- Ups and Downs · Director
- Westward Whoa · Director
- Slick Sleuths · Director
- When Hell Freezes Over · Director
- A Stretch in Time · Director
- 'Lots' of Water · Director
- Bombs and Bums · Director
- A Link Missing · Director
- Mixing in Mexico · Director
- Oceans of Trouble · Director
- Soda Jerks · Director
- Accidents Won't Happen · Director
- Where Am I? · Director
- Invisible Revenge · Director
- On Strike · Writer, Director
- Mutt and Jeff in the Movies · Director
- The Extra-Quick Lunch · Director
- A.W.O.L. · Director, Writer