Charles R. Bowers

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1889-06-07

Deathday 1946-11-26 (57 years old)

Place of Birth Creco, Iowa, USA

Also Known As Bricolo, Charley Bowers, Charles Raymond Bowers, Charles Bowers

Charles R. Bowers

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

Director

1940
A Sleepless Night

as Director

1935
1928
There It Is

as Director

1928
Say Ah-h!

as Director

1928
Whoozit

as Director

1928
Hop Off

as Director

1927
A Wild Roomer

as Director

1927
Many a Slip

as Director

1927
Nothing Doing

as Director

1927
The Globe Trotters

as Director

1926
Egged On

as Director

1926
He Done His Best

as Director

1926
Now You Tell One

as Director

1926
Fatal Footsteps

as Director

1926
Westward Whoa

as Director

1926
Playing with Fire

as Director

1926
Slick Sleuths

as Director

1926
Dog Gone

as Director

1926
1926
Ups and Downs

as Director

1926
Mummy O'Mine

as Director

1926
'Lots' of Water

as Director

1925
1925
Soda Jerks

as Director

1925
A Link Missing

as Director

1925
Where Am I?

as Director

1925
Oceans of Trouble

as Director

1925
Mixing in Mexico

as Director

1925
Invisible Revenge

as Director

1920
On Strike

as Director

1918
A.W.O.L.

as Director

1918

Actor

1939
Pete-Roleum and His Cousins

as Narrator (voice)

1930
It's a Bird

as Charley Chucklehead

1928
Say Ah-h!

as The Ostrich Farm Handy Man

1928
There It Is

as Charley MacNeesha

1927
Nothing Doing

as (as Charley Bowers)

1927
Many a Slip

as Charley (as Charley Bowers)

1926
Now You Tell One

as Mr. Bowers

1926
Fatal Footsteps

as Bricolo (as Charley Bowers)

Writer

1940
A Sleepless Night

as Screenplay

1937
The Dumb Cluck

as Writer

1928
Say Ah-h!

as Writer

1927
Nothing Doing

as Writer

1927
A Wild Roomer

as Writer

1926
1926
Fatal Footsteps

as Writer

1920
On Strike

as Writer

1918
A.W.O.L.

as Writer

Producer

1927
Nothing Doing

as Producer

1927
A Wild Roomer

as Producer

1926
Egged On

as Producer

1926
He Done His Best

as Producer

Sound

1981
Scanners

as Sound Editor

1969
The Adding Machine

as Sound Editor

Visual Effects

Crew

1930
It's a Bird

as Special Effects