Alice Knowland

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Alice Knowland
Born
Mary Alice Knowland

October 6, 1879
Fort Fairfield, Maine, USA
DiedMay 27, 1930 (aged 50)
Los Angeles, California, USA
OccupationActress
SpouseThomas Seymour (m. 1903)

Alice Knowland (1879-1930) was an American actress active during Hollywood's silent era. She specialized in playing motherly roles. [1] [2] [3]

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Biography

Knowland was born in Fort Fairfield, Maine, to Herbert Knowland and Fannie Warren. She told reporters that she spent much of her childhood out of the country, as her father held a consular position in France, but this has not been verified. [4]

She later lived in Boston, where she began a career as a theater actress, before moving to Los Angeles and appearing in films for Famous Players–Lasky. [5] [6] She married Thomas Seymour in 1903; the pair had no children.

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References

  1. "An Error". The Evening World. 30 May 1921. Retrieved 2019-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "Motion Picture Studio Directory, Fifth Edition". www.ancestry.com. 1919. Retrieved 2019-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. Staff, America Film Institute; Afi, American Film; Gevinson, Alan; Institute, American Film (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. University of California Press. ISBN   9780520209640.
  4. "Theatrical News and Gossip". The Washington Post. 29 Dec 1907. Retrieved 2019-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "Show Girl Shows Pluck". The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. 15 Dec 1906. Retrieved 2019-09-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. Motion Picture. Macfadden-Bartell. 1912.