Lois Collier

Known for ActingBorn 1919-03-21Died 1999-01-27Salley, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Girl on the Spot

Prices Unlimited

Santa Fe Scouts

Raiders of the Range

Outlaws of Cherokee Trail

Dick Tracy

Wild Beauty

Penthouse Rhythm

She's for Me

The Phantom Plainsmen

The Man Who Returned to Life

Sailors on Leave

Slave Girl

The Crimson Canary

Out of the Storm

Screen Director's Playhouse

Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance

Get Going

My Son, The Hero

Gauchos of El Dorado

A Night in Casablanca

The Naughty Nineties

Blondie Goes to College

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

West of Cimarron

Jungle Safari

Weird Woman

Ice-Capades

Follow the Boys

Miss Mink of 1949

Jungle Queen

Girls of the Road

Cobra Woman

Ladies Courageous

Young Ideas

Jungle Woman

The Cat Creeps

Flying Disc Man from Mars

Westward Ho

Missile Monsters

Rhythm Inn

Boston Blackie

Arthur Takes Over