Lottie Alter

Charlotte Alice Alter, known professionally as Lottie Alter, was an American actress born on January 16, 1871, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The daughter of Frederick Pernal Alter and Ida Alter, née Soplitt, she built a career spanning stage and silent film before her death on December 25, 1924, in Beechhurst, Queens, New York.

Alter's professional acting career was underway in the American Midwest by 1890, where she took on soubrette roles in touring productions. Those early years placed her in companies managed by notable figures including Henrietta Crosman, Joseph Jefferson, and Charles Frohman. Her touring credits from this period included The Cricket on the Hearth, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, The Country Circus, Fifi, The Shadows of a Great City, The Girl I Left Behind Me, and Hearts are Trumps. She also toured Australia and Great Britain in Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.

Her Broadway career extended from 1901 to 1911 and encompassed several productions. She appeared in To Have and to Hold in 1901, followed by The Vinegar Buyer in 1903. In 1905 she performed in The Trifler alongside Esme Beringer, and in 1906 she appeared in Charley's Aunt. Her final Broadway credit was Excuse Me in 1911, written by Rupert Hughes. Critic George Jean Nathan identified her as among the best in a generally capable cast for that production. Her Broadway work also included The Master Builder.

Alter's career extended into silent film. Her screen appearances included the short films Advertising for a Wife and An Arizona Romance, both from 1910. She later appeared in the 1915 feature The Eternal City alongside Pauline Frederick and Thomas Holding, and in The Lottery Man in 1916, which featured Oliver Hardy and Thurlow Bergen. That same year she was leading her own company in vaudeville.

In 1923 Alter married fellow actor Harry C. Bradley. She died the following year of pneumonitis and was buried at Flushing Cemetery in New York.