Lois Collier
Acting • Born 1919-03-21 – Died 1999-01-27
Biography
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.
Filmography
43 credits
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Movie • 1942
Receptionist
The Naughty Nineties
Movie • 1945
Miss Caroline Jackson
A Night in Casablanca
Movie • 1946
Annette
Out of the Storm
Movie • 1948
Ginny Powell
Weird Woman
Movie • 1944
Margaret Mercer
Young Ideas
Movie • 1943
Co-ed (uncredited)
The Crimson Canary
Movie • 1945
Jean Walker
Missile Monsters
Movie • 1958
Helen
Girl on the Spot
Movie • 1946
Kathy Lorenz
Raiders of the Range
Movie • 1942
Jean Travers
The Phantom Plainsmen
Movie • 1942
Judy Barrett
Slave Girl
Movie • 1947
Aleta
Flying Disc Man from Mars
Movie • 1950
Helen Hall
The Cat Creeps
Movie • 1946
Gay Elliot
Jungle Queen
Movie • 1945
Pamela Courtney
Gauchos of El Dorado
Movie • 1941
Ellen
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
Movie • 1941
Doris Sheldon
Jungle Woman
Movie • 1944
Joan Fletcher
Girls of the Road
Movie • 1940
Road Girl (Uncredited)
The Man Who Returned to Life
Movie • 1942
Mary Tuller
West of Cimarron
Movie • 1941
Doris Conway
Sailors on Leave
Movie • 1941
Pretty Brunette (uncredited)
Santa Fe Scouts
Movie • 1943
Claire Robbins
Wild Beauty
Movie • 1946
Linda Gibson
Ladies Courageous
Movie • 1944
Jill Romilly
Westward Ho
Movie • 1942
Anne Henderson
She's for Me
Movie • 1943
Eileen Crane
Get Going
Movie • 1943
Doris
My Son, The Hero
Movie • 1943
Nancy Cavanaugh
Blondie Goes to College
Movie • 1942
Coed
Jungle Safari
Movie • 1956
Pamela Courtney
Miss Mink of 1949
Movie • 1949
Alice Forrester
Arthur Takes Over
Movie • 1948
Margaret Bixby
Ice-Capades
Movie • 1941
Audition Girl
Prices Unlimited
Movie • 1944
Penthouse Rhythm
Movie • 1945
Linda Reynolds
Rhythm Inn
Movie • 1951
Betty Parker
Cobra Woman
Movie • 1944
Veeda
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
Movie • 1950
Anne Howe Palooka
Follow the Boys
Movie • 1944
Lois Collier (uncredited)
Boston Blackie
TV • 1951
Mary Wesley
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Lady Elaine
Dick Tracy
TV • 1950
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