Lois Collier

Acting

Born: 1919-03-21 in Salley, South Carolina, USA

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.

Lois Collier

Biography

Known For

Boston Blackie

Screen Director's Playhouse

Dick Tracy

The Naughty Nineties

A Night in Casablanca

Slave Girl

Girl on the Spot

Cobra Woman

Ladies Courageous

Jungle Woman

Blondie Goes to College

Follow the Boys

The Crimson Canary

Out of the Storm

The Cat Creeps

Weird Woman

Prices Unlimited

Santa Fe Scouts

Girls of the Road

The Man Who Returned to Life

Jungle Safari

Missile Monsters

Miss Mink of 1949

She's for Me

My Son, The Hero

Westward Ho

Ice-Capades

The Phantom Plainsmen

Young Ideas

Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance

Flying Disc Man from Mars

Outlaws of Cherokee Trail

Arthur Takes Over

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

West of Cimarron

Jungle Queen

Gauchos of El Dorado

Get Going

Raiders of the Range

Wild Beauty