Charles R. Bowers
Birthday
1889/06/07
Day of death
1946/11/26 (57 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Creco, Iowa, USA
Also know as
Bricolo, Charley Bowers, Charles Raymond Bowers, Charles 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
Acting
(1928) Say Ah-h!
as The Ostrich Farm Handy Man
(1928) There It Is
as Charley MacNeesha
(1926) Egged On
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(1927) A Wild Roomer
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(1927) Nothing Doing
as (as Charley Bowers)
(1926) Fatal Footsteps
as Bricolo (as Charley Bowers)
(1926) Now You Tell One
as Mr. Bowers
(1927) Many a Slip
as Charley (as Charley Bowers)
(1939) Pete-Roleum and His Cousins
as Narrator (voice)
(1930) It's a Bird
as Charley Chucklehead
(1926) He Done His Best
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(2003) A la Recherche de Charley Bowers
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(1928) Whoozit
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(1928) Hop Off
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