William Collier Jr.
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William Collier Jr. (born Charles F. Gall Jr., February 12, 1902 – February 5, 1987) was an American film and stage actor who appeared in 89 films.
William Collier (nicknamed "Buster") was born in New York City. When his parents divorced, his mother, the actress Paula Marr, remarried the actor William Collier Sr. who adopted Charles (the two did share a resemblance) and gave the boy the new name William Collier Jr. Collier's acting experience in childhood, having first appeared on stage at age seven, helped him to get his first movie role at the age of 14 in The Bugle Call (1916).
He went on to become a popular leading man in the 1920s and made the transition from silent into sound film, however he retired from acting in 1935, and in 1937 went to work as a movie producer in England. At the end of the 1940s he returned to America and went on to produce drama series for television. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Acting
Movie
Little Caesar
as Tony Passa
1931
Movie
Cimarron
as The Kid
1931
Movie
Back Stage
as Stagehand
1919
Movie
The Story of Temple Drake
as Toddy Gowan
1933
Movie
Street Scene
as Sam Kaplan
1931
Movie
The Sea Hawk
as Marsak
1924
Movie
So This Is Love
as Jerry McGuire
1928
Movie
Free and Easy
as Master of Ceremonies
1930
TV
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
1987
Movie
Rain or Shine
as Bud Conway
1930
Movie
Tide of Empire
as Romauldo Guerrero
1929
Movie
The Soul of Youth
as Dick Armstrong
1920
Movie
The Big Gamble
as Johnnie Ames
1931
Movie
The Phantom Express
as Bruce Harrington
1932
Movie
Broadminded
as Jack Hackett
1931
Movie
Reducing
as Johnnie Beasley
1931
Movie
Dancers in the Dark
as Floyd Stevens
1932
Movie
The Show of Shows
as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
1929
Movie
The Secret Witness
as Arthur Jones aka Casey
1931
Movie
Forgotten
as Joseph Meyers
1933
Movie
Public Stenographer
as James 'Jimmy' Martin Jr.
1934
Movie
Wine of Youth
as Max Cooper
1924
Movie
The Lucky Lady
as Clarke
1926
Movie
The Wanderer
as Jether
1925
