Director
Charles R. Bowers
137 years · Creco, Iowa, USA · 33 films
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
Best known for
Filmography 33
A la Recherche de Charley Bowers
2003 · Actor
Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters
1941 · Director, Writer
A Sleepless Night
1940 · Director, Screenplay
Pete Roleum and His Cousins
1939 · Narrator (voice)
The Keeper of the Lions
1937 · Writer
Believe it or Don't
1935 · Director, Writer
It's a Bird
1930 · Charley Chucklehead
Hop Off
1928 · Actor, Director
Say Ah-h!
1928 · The Ostrich Farm Handy Man, Director
Whoozit
1928 · Actor, Director
There It Is
1928 · Charley MacNeesha, Director
A Wild Roomer
1927 · Actor, Director
Nothing Doing
1927 · (as Charley Bowers), Director
Many a Slip
1927 · Charley (as Charley Bowers), Director
Now You Tell One
1926 · Mr. Bowers, Director
Fatal Footsteps
1926 · Bricolo (as Charley Bowers), Director
Mummy O'Mine
1926 · Director
He Done His Best
1926 · Actor, Director
The Big Swim
1926 · Director
Dog Gone
1926 · Director
Egged On
1926 · Actor, Producer
Playing with Fire
1926 · Director
Westward Whoa
1926 · Director
Slick Sleuths
1926 · Director