Lois Collier

Acting Mar 21, 1919 Jan 27, 1999 (aged 80) Salley, South Carolina, USA

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.

43 Acting Credits

Lois Collier

Acting

A Night in Casablanca

Weird Woman

Cobra Woman

The Naughty Nineties

Jungle Woman

The Cat Creeps

Follow the Boys

Flying Disc Man from Mars

Blondie Goes to College

Ice-Capades

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

Young Ideas

Screen Director's Playhouse

Missile Monsters

Jungle Queen

Girls of the Road

Out of the Storm

Ladies Courageous

Westward Ho

Miss Mink of 1949

Arthur Takes Over

Rhythm Inn

The Crimson Canary

The Phantom Plainsmen