Lois Collier
Born: 1919-03-21 in Salley, South Carolina, USA
Died: 1999-01-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
Collier's acting career started in 1938, when she had a small but credited role in A Desperate Adventure, starring Ramon Novarro and Marian Marsh. From 1940 through 1949, her career would be active and somewhat successful, with her playing mostly heroine roles in B-movies. During that period, she often starred opposite western stars Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, and Dennis Moore. In 1950, she starred in the sci-fi serial The Flying Disc Man from Mars. Collier was sometimes called the Fourth Mesquiteer because seven of Republic Pictures' The Three Mesquiteers movies featured her as the female lead. Collier played Carol in the soap opera Dear John, which ran on CBS in the 1930s and 1940s. Beginning December 6, 1948, she was featured in You, a program on KMGM in Los Angeles, California. In 1949, Collier co-starred in City Desk, a drama about activity in the newsroom of a newspaper. From 1950 through 1957, she starred mostly on television series episodes. She played Mary, the hero's girlfriend and sidekick, in 58 episodes of the television series Boston Blackie, which ran from 1951 to 1954. She retired from acting after 1957.
Filmography
1958
- Missile Monsters as Helen
1956
- Jungle Safari as Pamela Courtney
1955
- Screen Director's Playhouse as Lady Elaine
1951
- Boston Blackie as Mary Wesley
- Rhythm Inn as Betty Parker
1950
- Dick Tracy as Fluff
- Flying Disc Man from Mars as Helen Hall
- Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance as Anne Howe Palooka
1949
- Miss Mink of 1949 as Alice Forrester
1948
- Arthur Takes Over as Margaret Bixby
- Out of the Storm as Ginny Powell
1947
- Slave Girl as Aleta
1946
- A Night in Casablanca as Annette
- The Cat Creeps as Gay Elliot
- Girl on the Spot as Kathy Lorenz
- Wild Beauty as Linda Gibson
1945
- The Naughty Nineties as Miss Caroline Jackson
- The Crimson Canary as Jean Walker
- Penthouse Rhythm as Linda Reynolds
- Jungle Queen as Pamela Courtney
1944
- Cobra Woman as Veeda
- Jungle Woman as Joan Fletcher
- Follow the Boys as Lois Collier (uncredited)
- Weird Woman as Margaret Mercer
- Ladies Courageous as Jill Romilly
- Prices Unlimited
1943
- Santa Fe Scouts as Claire Robbins
- Young Ideas as Co-ed (uncredited)
- My Son, The Hero as Nancy Cavanaugh
- Get Going as Doris
- She's for Me as Eileen Crane
1942
- Blondie Goes to College as Coed
- The Phantom Plainsmen as Judy Barrett
- The Man Who Returned to Life as Mary Tuller
- Raiders of the Range as Jean Travers
- Westward Ho as Anne Henderson
- The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Receptionist
1941
- Ice-Capades as Audition Girl
- Outlaws of Cherokee Trail as Doris Sheldon
- West of Cimarron as Doris Conway
- Sailors on Leave as Pretty Brunette (uncredited)
- Gauchos of El Dorado as Ellen
1940
- Girls of the Road as Road Girl (Uncredited)