# Brenda Fowler

Eva Brenda Fowler (February 16, 1883 – October 27, 1942) was an American actress and writer.

## Early life

Brenda Fowler was born on February 16, 1883, in Jamestown, North Dakota as Eva Brenda Fowler.

## Career

In 1905, Fowler was a member of the New Ulrich stock theater company. In the early 1910s, she acted for two years in Honolulu, Hawaii, with the American Stock Company. She also acted with the Morosco Stock Company in Los Angeles.
Fowler performed in vaudeville in sketches that included The Hyphen, which had a patriotic theme. On Broadway, She appeared in The Rack (1911) and Luck in Pawn (1919).
Fowler left the stage to act in films, beginning with Money, Money, Money, a production of Preferred Pictures in 1922. Her first talking film was The World Moves On (1934). Her later films included The Case Against Mrs. Ames, and Comin' Round the Mountain (1940). She played shrewish woman in two John Ford films: As the sister of Will Rogers in Judge Priest (1934) and as the wife of the corrupt banker (played by Berton Churchill) in Stagecoach (1939).
Fowler was also a writer, collaborating with Ethel Clifton on scripts. Twenty of their one-act plays were presented on top-level vaudeville circuits.

## Personal life

Fowler was married to John W. Sherman, and they had a daughter.

## Death

On October 27, 1942, Fowler died after a brief illness.

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1918 | Thirty a Week | Mrs. Wright | |
| 1923 | Money, Money, Money | Mrs. Carter | |
| 1934 | Change of Heart | Adoption Agency's Nurse | Uncredited |
| 1934 | The World Moves On | Madame Agnes Girard (1825) | |
| 1934 | Judge Priest | Mrs. Caroline Priest | |
| 1934 | The Mighty Barnum | Mrs. Rhinelander-Fish | Uncredited |
| 1935 | Mystery Woman | Customer | Uncredited |
| 1935 | Carnival | Baby Judge | Uncredited |
| 1935 | Ruggles of Red Gap | Judy Ballard | Uncredited |
| 1935 | Bride of Frankenstein | Mother | Uncredited |
| 1935 | Ginger | Probation Officer | Uncredited |
| 1935 | Way Down East | Quilting Party Woman | |
| 1935 | Your Uncle Dudley | Committee Woman | Uncredited |
| 1936 | Riffraff | Mrs. Morgan – Prison Warden | Uncredited |
| 1936 | Lady of Secrets | Nurse | Uncredited |
| 1936 | The Story of Louis Pasteur | Midwife | Uncredited |
| 1936 | The First Baby | Friend of the Family | Uncredited |
| 1936 | The Case Against Mrs. Ames | Mrs. Shumway | |
| 1936 | Anthony Adverse | Midwife at Anthony's Birth | Uncredited |
| 1936 | Two-Fisted Gentleman | Mrs. Prentice | |
| 1936 | Second Wife | Mrs. Anderson | |
| 1936 | Can This Be Dixie? | Martin Curtis Peachtree | Uncredited |
| 1937 | Speed to Spare | Miss Granston | Uncredited |
| 1938 | Of Human Hearts | Mrs. Ames | Uncredited |
| 1938 | Young Dr. Kildare | Head Nurse | Uncredited |
| 1938 | Girls on Probation | Miss Kenney – Head Prison Matron | Uncredited |
| 1939 | Stagecoach | Mrs. Gatewood | Uncredited |
| 1940 | Castle on the Hudson | Nurse | Uncredited |
| 1940 | Women Without Names | Mrs. Turner | Uncredited |
| 1940 | Untamed | Chief Nurse | Uncredited |
| 1940 | All This, and Heaven Too | Nun | Uncredited |
| 1940 | They Drive by Night | Prison Matron | Uncredited |
| 1940 | Comin' Round the Mountain | Ma Blower | |
| 1941 | So Ends Our Night | Woman in Prague | Uncredited |
| 1941 | Manpower | Mrs. Calkin – Saleslady | Uncredited, (final film role) |