Monte Landis
Born: 1933-04-20 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Died: 2024-12-14
Known For: Acting
Biography
Max Landstein (born 20 April 1933) was a Scottish-American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the comic foil in multiple episodes of The Monkees, most notably as "Mr. Zero" in "The Devil and Peter Tork". He began his career in Britain before moving to the United States in 1963. He also had a career in Paris in the mid-50s as emcee in cabarets and jazz clubs (Crazy Horse, Club Saint-Germain, etc.) -he played his own role later in Charade (1963)- and choreographer for the French vocal group The Blue Stars of France.
Filmography
1995
- High Society as Waiter
1994
- Burke's Law as Henderson
1992
- The Golden Palace as Mr. Ricchutti
1990
- Heart Condition as Beverly Palm Hotel Waiter
1988
- The Underachievers as Carruthers
1986
1985
- The Golden Girls as Victor
- Real Genius as Dr. Dodd
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure as Mario
1984
- Body Double as Sid Goldberg
1983
- Yellowbeard as Prison Guard
1978
- The Bastard as Turly
1975
- Linda Lovelace for President as B.S.
1974
- Police Woman as The Snitch
- Young Frankenstein as Gravedigger
- Candy Stripe Nurses as Husband in Clinic
1971
- Columbo as Steward
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law as Promoter
1970
- Myra Breckinridge as Vince
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Tony Madrid
- Targets as Marshall Smith
1967
- The High Chaparral as Tailor
- The Second Hundred Years as Charlie
- Double Trouble as Georgie
1966
- Batman as Basil
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Genghis Gomez VIII
- The Monkees as King
- Occasional Wife
1965
- Get Smart as General Pajarito
1964
1963
- The Human Jungle as Sid Fiscal
- Espionage as Inspector
- Charade as Master of Ceremonies at Club (uncredited)
- What a Crazy World as Solly Gold
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- Play It Cool as Horace - Beatnik Man
- On the Beat as Mr. Bassett
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- On the Fiddle as Conductor
1960
- The Pure Hell of St Trinian's as Octavius
- School for Scoundrels as Fleetsnod
1959
- International Detective as Sami Kharan
- The Mouse That Roared as Cobbley