It is believed that Alfred Hollingsworth appeared in a Thanhouser film in 1914. A photograph caption in Reel Life identifies “A. Hollingsford” as a player in the Thanhouser film, The Tell-Tale Scar. It is believed that the reference should have been A. Hollingsworth.
Alfred Hollingsworth
A Thanhouser Company player, in one film you can watch free online.
Watch Alfred HollingsworthOpens The Tell-Tale Scar (1914)
Biography
From Bowers’ encyclopedia entry. Read the full biography below ↓
Filmography
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The full biography
From Volume III: Biographies of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. 187 words.
Alfred Hollingsworth was born in Nebraska in 1874 and was educated in Colorado. He followed a stage career and appeared in Cyrano de Bergerac, with Jules Steger in The Fifth Commandment, and in vaudeville. His screen career included character acting with Vitagraph, Biograph, New York Motion Picture Co., and others. He was seen in Mill of the Zuyder Zee, Beggar of Cawnpore, Man From Nowhere, and other films. Later, he was with American (Purity), Pallas (The Right Direction), Mutual (Gilded Youth), Triangle (The Sawdust Ring), Triangle (Polly Ann). He remained in films with other studios through the mid 1920s. Apparently he was with Thanhouser only briefly, in 1914. He was 6’ tall, weighed 210 pounds, and had dark hair and dark blue eyes. In 1918 the actor was with Triangle-Keystone in Culver City, California. Alfred Hollingsworth died on June 20, 1926 in Glendale, California.
Bowers’ own filmography list is left out here: the filmography above lists the same films. Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “HOLLINGSWORTH, Alfred.” thanhouser.org/research/people/alfred-hollingsworth/