Charles Bowers

For the baseball talent scout, see Charles P. Bowers. For the American civil engineer, see Charles E. Bowers.
Charles Bowers
Born
Charles R. Bowers

June 6, 1887
Cresco, Iowa US
Died24 November 1946(1946-11-24) (aged 59)
Paterson, New Jersey

Charles R. Bowers (June 6, 1887 – November 24, 1946)[1] was an American 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 have an inventiveness and surrealism which give them a freshness appealing to modern audiences, after his rediscovery his work has sometimes been placed in the "top tier" of silent film accomplishments (along with those of, for example, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd). In comic style, he probably modelled himself after both Harry Langdon and Buster Keaton and was known to the French as "Bricolo."

  1. ^ "Charles Bowers, Pioneer in Animated Cartoons, Dead". The Buffalo News. November 27, 1946. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.