Monte Landis
Born: 1933-04-20 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Known For: Acting
Biography
Max Landstein (born 20 April 1933) is 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 Nadje
- 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
- Double Trouble as Georgie
- The Second Hundred Years as Charlie
1966
- Batman as Basil
- The Monkees
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. as Genghis Gomez VIII
- Occasional Wife
1964
1963
- Charade as Master of Ceremonies at Club (uncredited)
- The Human Jungle as Sid Fiscal
- What a Crazy World as Solly Gold
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- On the Beat as Mr. Bassett
- Play It Cool as Horace - Beatnik Man
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- On the Fiddle as Conductor
1960
- School for Scoundrels as Fleetsnod
- The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's as Octavius
1959
- The Mouse That Roared as Cobbley
- International Detective as Sami Kharan