Lois Collier

Lois Collier

Born: March 21, 1919
Died: January 27, 1999
in 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.

Movies for Lois Collier...

Missile Monsters
Title: Missile Monsters
Character: Helen
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A warlord from Mars recruits an Earth industrialist with a Nazi past to manufacture weapons by means of which Mars can take over the Earth. Feature version of the 1951 movie serial "Flying Disc Man from Mars".
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Jungle Safari
Title: Jungle Safari
Character: Pamela Courtney
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Feature version of the 1945 Universal serial, JUNGLE QUEEN.
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Title: Screen Director's Playhouse
Character: Lady Elaine
Released: October 5, 1955
Type: TV
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
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Title: The Adventures of Boston Blackie
Released: September 8, 1951
Type: TV
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Rhythm Inn
Title: Rhythm Inn
Character: Betty Parker
Released: February 11, 1951
Type: Movie
A bandleader, desperate to get his band's instruments out of hock, promises the pawnshop clerk--an aspiring songwriter--that he'll let the band's female singer do the clerk's songs at a local club if he will let the band "borrow" their instruments at night. The clerk's girlfriend, however, thinks that the band singer is after more than her boyfriend's songs.
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Flying Disc Man from Mars
Title: Flying Disc Man from Mars
Character: Helen Hall
Released: October 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Mota is a Martian representative, who has come to impose interplanetary law on the Earth (which has become too dangerous); opposing his authority is Kent Fowler, who resists the alien plot, without understanding its details.
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Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Title: Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Character: Anne Howe Palooka
Released: June 4, 1950
Type: Movie
A crooked boxing promoter tries to shake down Joe's manager by setting up a rigged fight in Humphrey Pennyworth's hometown.
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Miss Mink of 1949
Title: Miss Mink of 1949
Character: Alice Forrester
Released: February 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
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Out of the Storm
Title: Out of the Storm
Character: Ginny Powell
Released: September 11, 1948
Type: Movie
Donald Lewis is a low-paid clerk in a high-profile shipbuilding firm. When the company is robbed in broad daylight, Lewis gathers up $100,000 on his own and skeedaddles, figuring that the lost funds will be attributed to the holdup. Before his girlfriend Ginny can persuade him to go straight, the hapless Lewis finds himself hotly pursued by cops and crooks alike.
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Arthur Takes Over
Title: Arthur Takes Over
Character: Margaret Bixby
Released: April 7, 1948
Type: Movie
A young woman must find a way to break the news to her parents and a stuffy suitor that she is now married to a sailor.
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Slave Girl
Title: Slave Girl
Character: Aleta
Released: July 17, 1947
Type: Movie
Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
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Wild Beauty
Title: Wild Beauty
Character: Linda Gibson
Released: August 8, 1946
Type: Movie
In this western, a Native American boy and his horse Wild Beauty make friends with a gentle doctor who helps the boy save his beloved steed from the cruel industrialist who has been slaughtering horses and using their hides for making shoes. Read more at http://www.allmovie.com/movie/wild-beauty-v117011#MPOP1dAiWrjP7tqA.99
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The Cat Creeps
Title: The Cat Creeps
Character: Gay Elliot
Released: May 17, 1946
Type: Movie
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
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A Night in Casablanca
Title: A Night in Casablanca
Character: Annette
Released: May 10, 1946
Type: Movie
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
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Girl on the Spot
Title: Girl on the Spot
Character: Kathy Lorenz
Released: January 11, 1946
Type: Movie
Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue. Lois Collier is the girl-on-the-spot of the title because she was on the scene of a murder. The police conclude she didn't do it and they use her to set a trap for the real killer, a G&S addict, by financing a Broadway production starring Collier.
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The Crimson Canary
Title: The Crimson Canary
Character: Jean Walker
Released: November 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.
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Penthouse Rhythm
Title: Penthouse Rhythm
Character: Linda Reynolds
Released: June 22, 1945
Type: Movie
Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
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The Naughty Nineties
Title: The Naughty Nineties
Character: Miss Caroline Jackson
Released: June 20, 1945
Type: Movie
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.
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Jungle Queen
Title: Jungle Queen
Character: Pamela Courtney
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
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Jungle Woman
Title: Jungle Woman
Character: Joan Fletcher
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher, reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.
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Cobra Woman
Title: Cobra Woman
Character: Veeda
Released: May 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A man (Jon Hall) tracks his kidnapped bride (Maria Montez) to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.
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Prices Unlimited
Title: Prices Unlimited
Released: March 16, 1944
Type: Movie
Two young women, frustrated by war rationing, have a dream illustrating the likely results on prices in America should the measure were prematurely lifted.
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Weird Woman
Title: Weird Woman
Character: Margaret Mercer
Released: March 1, 1944
Type: Movie
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was raised, Professor Norman Reed begins to feel the clash between his world of rational science and hers of bizarre dancing and freaky voodoo rituals. Norman's stuck-up friends also sense Paula's strangeness, and soon their meddling gossip and suspicious scheming push the poor woman to use her magic to defend herself and her husband – and maybe even to kill! Or is it just the power of suggestion...?
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Ladies Courageous
Title: Ladies Courageous
Character: Jill Romilly
Released: February 2, 1944
Type: Movie
Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.
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She's for Me
Title: She's for Me
Character: Eileen Crane
Released: December 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Two lawyers fall for their beautiful client.
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Young Ideas
Title: Young Ideas
Character: Co-ed (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1943
Type: Movie
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
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Get Going
Title: Get Going
Character: Doris
Released: June 21, 1943
Type: Movie
Judy King, newly arrived in Washington, applies for a secretary job with a government agency and while being interviewed by Bob Carlton, an agent with the bureau, jokingly hints she may be a spy. While investigating her, he clears Judy and falls in love with her... and then uncovers a real Nazi spy ring.
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Santa Fe Scouts
Title: Santa Fe Scouts
Character: Claire Robbins
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
This late entry in Republic's long-running "Three Mesquiteers" series stars Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Jimmy Dodd as, respectively, Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Johnson. This time out, the Mesquiteers try to help young Tim Clay (John James), who's been framed for murder by villains who want to gain possession of Clay's ranch property.
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My Son, The Hero
Title: My Son, The Hero
Character: Nancy Cavanaugh
Released: April 5, 1943
Type: Movie
Learning that his long-unseen son is soon to arrive for a visit, a small-time con-man enlists the help of his cronies to help him pretend to be a wealthy and important businessman. Comedy.
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The Phantom Plainsmen
Title: The Phantom Plainsmen
Character: Judy Barrett
Released: June 16, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1937 the life in out West has not changed much. The boys are working at the Wyoming ranch of Captain Marvin herding horses which he sells to Kurt Redman. Marvin will not sell any horses to any army, but the boys find out that Redman is a German agent shipping the horses directly to the Third Reich. When Marvin tries to stop Redman, his son Tad, who is studying medicine in Germany, is arrested and held hostage. Marvin must fire the boys as the sneaky German agents take over the ranch, but the boys will not give up their attempt to stop them.
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Westward Ho
Title: Westward Ho
Character: Anne Henderson
Released: April 24, 1942
Type: Movie
The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke and Lullaby Joslin, here played respectively by Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Rufe Davis. Our heroes converge on a small town to solve a series of mysterious bank robberies.
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Title: The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Character: Receptionist
Released: March 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
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Raiders of the Range
Title: Raiders of the Range
Character: Jean Travers
Released: March 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Daggett is out to stop the completion of an oil well. He cheats Foster at poker and then forces him to delay the drilling. But the Mesquiteers are on the job with Lulaby posing as a cleaning lady to get evidence.
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The Man Who Returned to Life
Title: The Man Who Returned to Life
Released: February 5, 1942
Type: Movie
An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.
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Blondie Goes to College
Title: Blondie Goes to College
Character: Coed
Released: January 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant does the same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too.
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West of Cimarron
Title: West of Cimarron
Character: Doris Conway
Released: December 15, 1941
Type: Movie
The Mesquiteers return to Texas after the Civil War to find Army carpetbaggers fighting the local bushwackers. They quickly learn that Capt. Hawks and his men are the culprits and join up with Morgan and his men.
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Gauchos of El Dorado
Title: Gauchos of El Dorado
Character: Ellen
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
It's "The Three Mesquiteers" again. Gaucho escapes from Braden's gang only to be shot by them. The Mesquiteers drive away the outlaws and take his money on to his mother. But Isabella thinks Tucson is her long lost son and they don't have the heart to tell her he is dead.
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Sailors on Leave
Title: Sailors on Leave
Character: Pretty Brunette (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1941
Type: Movie
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
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Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Title: Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Character: Doris Sheldon
Released: September 10, 1941
Type: Movie
The Cherokee Strip is off limits to the Rangers, so that is where badman Lemar operates from. When the Rangers capture his brother and the jury sentences him to hang, Lemar starts killing the jurists. Then the scoundrels kidnap the Captain's daughter Doris... Written by Tony Fontana
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Ice-Capades
Title: Ice-Capades
Character: Audition Girl
Released: August 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.
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Girls of the Road
Title: Girls of the Road
Character: Road Girl (Uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.