---
name: "Brenda Fowler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brenda-fowler"
fi1m_id: "brenda-fowler"
imdb_id: "nm0288666"
tmdb_id: 1046807
wikidata_id: "Q908561"
roles: []
born: "16 February 1883"
died: "27 October 1942"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 73
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-09-25T02:14:19.211814+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Brenda Fowler

## Identity

Brenda Fowler

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brenda-fowler
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brenda-fowler
- **IMDb ID:** nm0288666
- **TMDB ID:** 1046807
- **Wikidata ID:** Q908561
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Fowler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q908561, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288666/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1046807

Actor. Born 16 February 1883 in Jamestown - New York - USA. Died 27 October 1942.

## Details

- **Born:** 16 February 1883, Jamestown - New York - USA
- **Died:** 27 October 1942
- **Active:** 1934–1936
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 3 acting, 3 other
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 74 (5), 1940s 64 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 86 to 84 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 3, Comedy 2, History 1, Horror 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 10 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $6m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Fowler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q908561, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0288666/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1046807

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Judge Priest*](https://film.one/film/judge-priest.md) (58)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Brenda Fowler was an American actress. Born Eva Brenda Fowler on 16 February 1883 in Jamestown, North Dakota, she began her career on the stage around 1905 with stock theatre companies and later performed in Honolulu before transitioning to film in the late 1910s.

She appeared in more than thirty films, often in supporting roles as matrons or nurses, with credited parts including Mrs. Caroline Priest in *Judge Priest* (1934), Mrs. Shumway in *The Case Against Mrs. Ames* (1936) and Mrs. Prentice in *Two-Fisted Gentleman* (1936). Uncredited appearances include Mrs. Gatewood in *Stagecoach* (1939) and the mother in *Bride of Frankenstein* (1935). Fowler was married to actor John W. Sherman and had one daughter. She died on 27 October 1942 in Los Angeles, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (6)

### Performed in (3)

- *Anthony Adverse* (1936), Fi1m 57, as Midwife at Anthony's Birth — [page](https://film.one/film/anthony-adverse.md)
- *Ruggles of Red Gap* (1935), Fi1m 84, as Judy Ballard — [page](https://film.one/film/ruggles-of-red-gap.md)
- *Judge Priest* (1934), Fi1m 58, as Mrs. Caroline Priest — [page](https://film.one/film/judge-priest.md)

### Also credited (3) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *All This, and Heaven Too* (1940), Fi1m 64, as Nun (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/all-this-and-heaven-too.md)
- *Stagecoach* (1939), Fi1m 84, as Mrs. Gatewood (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/stagecoach.md)
- *Bride of Frankenstein* (1935), Fi1m 89, as Mother (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/bride-of-frankenstein.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Manpower* (1941), as Mrs. Calkin (uncredited)
- *So Ends Our Night* (1941), as Woman in Prague (uncredited)
- *Comin' Round the Mountain* (1940), as Ma Blower
- *They Drive by Night* (1940), as Prison Matron (uncredited)
- *Untamed* (1940), as Chief Nurse (uncredited)
- *All This, and Heaven Too* (1940), as Nun (uncredited) — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/all-this-and-heaven-too.md)
- *Women Without Names* (1940), as Mrs. Turner
- *Castle on the Hudson* (1940), as Nurse (uncredited)
- *Stagecoach* (1939), as Mrs. Gatewood (uncredited) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/stagecoach.md)
- *Girls on Probation* (1938), as Miss Kenney
- *Young Dr. Kildare* (1938), as Head Nurse (uncredited)
- *Anthony Adverse* (1936), as Midwife at Anthony's Birth — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/anthony-adverse.md)
- *Second Wife* (1936), as Mrs. Anderson
- *Two-Fisted Gentleman* (1936), as Mrs. Prentice
- *The Case Against Mrs. Ames* (1936), as Mrs. Shumway
- *Way Down East* (1935), as Quilting Party Woman
- *Bride of Frankenstein* (1935), as Mother (uncredited) — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/bride-of-frankenstein.md)
- *Ruggles of Red Gap* (1935), as Judy Ballard — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/ruggles-of-red-gap.md)
- *Carnival* (1935), as Baby Judge
- *Judge Priest* (1934), as Mrs. Caroline Priest — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/judge-priest.md)
- *The World Moves On* (1934), as Madame Agnes Girard (1825)
- *Change of Heart* (1934), as Adoption Agency's Nurse (uncredited)
- *Money, Money, Money* (1923), as Mrs. Carter
- *Thirty a Week* (1918), as Mrs. Wright

## Gallery

- ![Brenda Fowler](https://film.one/media/person/300252/gallery-044002c8fb14.jpg) Brenda Fowler — Moon and Wills, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/06/Stock_actress_Brenda_Fowler_%28SAYRE_126%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Brenda Fowler, stage actress Subjects: actresses (1910)](https://film.one/media/person/300252/gallery-f481955eb948.jpg) Brenda Fowler, stage actress Subjects: actresses (1910) — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Brenda_Fowler%2C_stage_actress_%28SAYRE_1695%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Stock actress Brenda Fowler. Subjects: actresses (1910)](https://film.one/media/person/300252/gallery-855af1be3a5f.jpg) Stock actress Brenda Fowler. Subjects: actresses (1910) — Moon and Wills, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Stock_actress_Brenda_Fowler_%28SAYRE_625%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Brenda Fowler, stage actress Subjects: actresses (1910)](https://film.one/media/person/300252/gallery-f9c950fef94f.jpg) Brenda Fowler, stage actress Subjects: actresses (1910) — Moon and Wills, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Brenda_Fowler%2C_stage_actress_%28SAYRE_1154%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Brenda Fowler, stage actress Subjects: actresses (1911)](https://film.one/media/person/300252/gallery-7ffb7f776b3c.jpg) Brenda Fowler, stage actress Subjects: actresses (1911) — Moon and Wills, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Brenda_Fowler%2C_stage_actress_%28SAYRE_1794%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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