Alfred Hollingsworth

Hollingsworth (left) and Thomas Jefferson in White Youth (1920)

Alfred Hollingsworth was an American actor during the silent film era. He was in dozens of films from 1911 until 1925. He also directed four short films in 1916. Hell's Hinges has been described as a classic and Hollingsworth earned plaudits for his role in it.[1]

In 1908, he wrote Mills of the Gods, a five act drama.[2] He also wrote a play called Crisis in 1919.[3] In 1922, he copyrighted Prodigal Son, a travesty in three acts.[4]

Filmography

As director

• The Dreamer (1916)

As actor

• Lady Godiva (1911)
• Love's Bitter Strength (1916)
• The Three Musketeers (1916)
• Hell's Hinges (1916)
• The Beggar of Cawnpore (1916)
• Purity (1916)
• The Sable Blessing (1916)[5]
• The Right Direction (1916)
• The Gilded Youth (1917)
• The Girl and the Crisis (1917)
• Polly Ann (1917)
• The Sawdust Ring (1917)
• Fair Enough (1918)
• The Hawk's Trail (1919)
• A Man's Country (1919)[6]
• The Uplifters (1919)
• 23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919)
• The Joyous Liar (1919)[7]
• Diane of the Green Van (1919)
• As the Sun Went Down (1919)
• Leave It to Susan (1919)
• White Youth (1920)
• The Leopard Woman (1920)[8]
• The Infamous Miss Revell (1921)
• Trimmed (1922)
• The Egg (1922)
• The Bearcat (1922)
• The Phantom Fortune (1923)
• Marry in Haste (1924)

References

1. Hughes, Howard (24 October 2007). Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9780857717016. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1909. p. 51. Retrieved 28 March 2019. alfred hollingsworth.
3. "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series". 28 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
4. "Catalog of Copyright Entries". U.S. Government Printing Office. Library of Congress Copyright Office. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
5. Kellow, Brian (26 November 2004). The Bennetts: An Acting Family. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813138183. Retrieved 28 March 2019 – via Google Books.
6. Rubens, Alma (15 June 2006). Alma Rubens, Silent Snowbird: Her Complete 1930 Memoir, with a New Biography and Filmography. McFarland. ISBN 9780786424139. Retrieved 28 March 2019 – via Google Books.
7. Katchmer, George A. (28 March 1991). Eighty Silent Film Stars: Biographies and Filmographies of the Obscure to the Well Known. McFarland. ISBN 9780899504940. Retrieved 28 March 2019 – via Google Books.
8. Nash, Jay Robert; Connelly, Robert; Ross, Stanley Ralph (1 January 1988). Motion Picture Guide Silent Film 1910-1936. Cinebooks. ISBN 9780933997004. Retrieved 28 March 2019 – via Google Books.

External links

• Alfred Hollingsworth at IMDb 
• Alfred Hollingsworth at the Internet Broadway Database