Charles R. Bowers
Director
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
There It Is
as Charley MacNeesha 1928
Egged On
1926
Now You Tell One
as Mr. Bowers 1926
It's a Bird
as Charley Chucklehead 1930
A Wild Roomer
1927
Fatal Footsteps
as Bricolo (as Charley Bowers) 1926
Many a Slip
as Charley (as Charley Bowers) 1927
He Done His Best
1926
Say Ah-h!
as The Ostrich Farm Handy Man 1928
Nothing Doing
as (as Charley Bowers) 1927
Pete-Roleum and His Cousins
as Narrator (voice) 1939
A la Recherche de Charley Bowers
2003
Whoozit
1928