Alice Howell

Acting

Alice Howell

Born 1886-05-19 · New York City, New York

"The scream of the screen". One reviewer likened her to a "sort of Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Max Linder." All this was compressed into "one more or less diminutive package of femininity". Sometimes called "the girl Charlie Chaplin", she worked for Mack Sennett and later L-KO Kompany. Her early comedies were often produced by Universal Pictures.

Acting credits

Tillie's Punctured Romance poster
6.2

A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.

Tillie's Punctured Romance

1914

In Dutch poster
10.0

Comedy short starring Alice Howell

In Dutch

1918

Love Is an Awful Thing poster
10.0

Anthony Churchill, about to marry Helen Griggs, is on six months' probation imposed upon him by Helen's father, who knows Anthony has been wild in his earlier days. Marion, a forgotten flame, turns up with incriminating love letters which Anthony has written and threatens a breach of promise suit.

Love Is an Awful Thing

1922

The Knockout poster
5.8

To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.

The Knockout

1914

Caught in a Cabaret poster
5.8

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she has a jealous fiancé.

Caught in a Cabaret

1914

Cinderella Cinders poster
6.7

Alice Howell plays a working girl who breaks into society through no fault of her own when asked to pose as royalty at a posh party. Spiked punch adds to the hilarity of the proceedings. A silent film inspired by the character of Cinderella, but with the contemporary setting.

Cinderella Cinders

1920

No artwork available
9.0

Magnolia Milkshake, having a husband who is exempted because of possessing a disease which might be called "too much fat" is desirous of helping the boys across the ferry mop up Bill Hohenzollern's place, tries very hard to join the Red Cross. After various tests she is finally rejected. Since this plan didn't work out she decides to join the kaiser-killers herself and so enters the recruiting station right next door. Here she is again rejected because of a flat head. Having failed twice she goes home feeling that she needs a little training and uses poor delicate little hubby as the goat. While Magnolia is still hard at work training with some dummies, hubby gets a note from Nicholas Nutmeg inviting him to a game of poker, but also inviting his little bank roll. Magnolia sees the note, becomes furious, and here follow some lively chases which end with hubby in jail and Magnolia trying hard to enlist in the army.

Hoot Toot

1918

Caught in the Rain poster
5.8

When a married couple become separated in the park, a tramp sits with the lady and is beat up when her husband rejoins her. He takes a room in their hotel, and chaos ensues.

Caught in the Rain

1914

Neptune's Naughty Daughter poster
NR

The daughter of King Neptune takes human form to seek revenge for the death of her sister by a fishing net. However, she falls in love with King William, the man she holds responsible.

Neptune's Naughty Daughter

1917

Distilled Love poster
7.0

Alice Howell is a simple milkmaid in love with color-blind artist Dick Smith. Oliver Hardy is a bootlegger who lures her to the wicked city to be a gypsy dancer on the street but then accuses her of having an illicit baby.

Distilled Love

1920

No artwork available
7.0

This story deals with a man, who causes his wife great jealousy on account of his relation to other women, yet who regards himself as a man of destiny in settling others unhappy marital relations. He is named co-respondent in a suit - leaves town - takes a house in a smaller village - picks up a little girl on the street in his car and drives into the country.

Dangerous Pleasure

1925

Laughing Gas poster
5.6

Although only a dental assistant, Charlie pretends to be the dentist. After receiving too much anesthesia, a patient can't stop laughing, so Charlie knocks him out with a club.

Laughing Gas

1914

No artwork available
7.0

It all starts when the actress-wife gives a midnight party to her former associates and Bill and Mr. Jowlish try to horn in on the revelry...

Silk Hose and High Pressure

1915

Father Was a Loafer poster
7.0

A deadbeat father abandons his wife after she has triplets, who chases him down and exacts comic justice.

Father Was a Loafer

1915

Cursed by His Beauty poster
NR

Married ice man Charles Murray is "Cursed by His Beauty" (1914) when he becomes a model for a female artist.

Cursed by His Beauty

1914

Under New Management poster
8.0

Web of office romance entanglements lead to slapstick hijinks at a fly paper company.

Under New Management

1915

Under a Spell poster
10.0

When Neely is hypnotized to think he's a monkey, he goes on a freewheeling chase where he climbs things he wouldn't ordinarily and throws lots of things.

Under a Spell

1925

Mabel's Busy Day poster
5.7

Mabel tries to sell hot dogs at a car race, but isn't doing a very good job at it. She sets down the box of hot dogs and leaves them for a moment. Charlie finds them and gives them away to the hungry spectators at the track as Mabel frantically tries to find her lost box of hot dogs. Mabel finds out that Charlie has stolen them and sends the police after him. Chaos ensues.

Mabel's Busy Day

1914

Pirates of the Air poster
9.0

The proprietor of the Crowing Rooster Inn was a bad man, but he went one too many when he stole the airship model from the War Department, for they were on his trail immediately. The head waitress discovered the workshop where the proprietor was having the model duplicated and she was bribed not to say anything about what she saw. She started out with the bribe money to buy some gewgaws for herself, but she got in the road of a passing auto. Unfortunately, the auto contained the young Secret Service agent.

Pirates of the Air

1916

No artwork available
NR

Bombs and Bangs is a 1914 Comedy short.

Bombs and Bangs

1914

No artwork available
10.0

Both crooks, on the pleading of the girl, determine to turn square but with the provision of turning just one more trick. The first could not foresee that the second had placed a time bomb in the safe when he went to rob it. Likewise, the second could not foresee the other was going to pay a visit to the booty after he had planted the explosive. But worse, neither could foresee that a gang of burglars were contemplating carrying off the safe and that there were police loitering nearby.

Their Last Haul

1915

Shipwrecked poster
NR

Larry O'Neil, a ship's cook, finds and befriends stowaway Lois Austin, who is a fugitive from a murder charge. The ship's captain, Klodel, also finds her and forces her to do his will as he has received a cablegram and knows she is hunted.

Shipwrecked

1926

No artwork available
NR

An L.K.C Productions silent comedy from 1923.

The Sheik of Hollywood

1923

Lover's Luck poster
3.9

A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Keystone comedy.

Lover's Luck

1914