Lois Collier
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.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.739 |
Birthday | 1919-03-21 |
Place of Birth | Salley, South Carolina, USA |
Also Known As | Lois Collyer, Madelyn Earle Jones, |
1942
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
6/5
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to...
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1945
The Naughty Nineties
6.7/23
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 gamblin...
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The Naughty Nineties
1946
A Night in Casablanca
6.8/130
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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A Night in Casablanca
1948
Out of the Storm
6.5/2
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 o...
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Out of the Storm
1944
Weird Woman
6.1/32
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 cla...
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Weird Woman
1943
Young Ideas
4.6/4
A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.
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Young Ideas
1945
The Crimson Canary
6/1
Members of a Jazz Band come under suspicion when a beautiful nightclub singer is murdered.
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The Crimson Canary
1958
Missile Monsters
3/2
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 v...
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Missile Monsters
1946
Girl on the Spot
0/0
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 pl...
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Girl on the Spot
1942
Raiders of the Range
0/0
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...
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Raiders of the Range
1942
The Phantom Plainsmen
6/1
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 R...
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The Phantom Plainsmen
1947
Slave Girl
5/1
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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Slave Girl
1950
Flying Disc Man from Mars
4.8/4
Mota is a Martian representative, who has come to impose interplanetary law on the Earth (which has become too dangerous); opposing his authority is K...
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Flying Disc Man from Mars
1946
The Cat Creeps
4.818/11
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
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The Cat Creeps
1945
Jungle Queen
5/3
A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
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Jungle Queen
1941
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
0/0
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 senten...
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Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
1941
Gauchos of El Dorado
0/0
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 mon...
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Gauchos of El Dorado
1944
Jungle Woman
4.853/17
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, reve...
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Jungle Woman
1940
Girls of the Road
5/3
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hike...
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Girls of the Road
1942
The Man Who Returned to Life
6/1
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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The Man Who Returned to Life
1941
West of Cimarron
4/1
The Mesquiteers return to Texas after the Civil War to find Army carpetbaggers fighting the local bushwackers. They quickly learn that Capt. Hawks and...
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West of Cimarron
1941
Sailors on Leave
0/0
If a shy sailor marries before his next birthday, he will inherit a fortune.
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Sailors on Leave
1943
Santa Fe Scouts
0/0
This late entry in Republic's long-running "Three Mesquiteers" series stars Bob Steele, Tom Tyler and Jimmy Dodd as, respectively, Tucson Smith, Stony...
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Santa Fe Scouts
1946
Wild Beauty
0/0
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 c...
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Wild Beauty
1944
Ladies Courageous
3.5/2
Loretta Young stars in this drama about female pilots during WWII.
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Ladies Courageous
1942
Westward Ho
3/1
The all-purpose title Westward Ho was applied in 1942 to this "Three Mesquiteers" western. This time, the Mesquiteers are Tucson Smith, Stony Brooke a...
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Westward Ho
1943
She's for Me
0/0
Two lawyers fall for their beautiful client.
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She's for Me
1943
Get Going
0/0
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...
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Get Going
1943
My Son, The Hero
0/0
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 weal...
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My Son, The Hero
1942
Blondie Goes to College
6.4/6
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, B...
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Blondie Goes to College
1956
Jungle Safari
4/1
Feature version of the 1945 Universal serial, JUNGLE QUEEN.
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Jungle Safari
1949
Miss Mink of 1949
0/0
Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
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Miss Mink of 1949
1948
Arthur Takes Over
2/1
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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Arthur Takes Over
1941
Ice-Capades
5/4
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...
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Ice-Capades
1944
Prices Unlimited
0/0
Two young women, frustrated by war rationing, have a dream illustrating the likely results on prices in America should the measure were prematurely li...
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Prices Unlimited
1945
Penthouse Rhythm
0/0
Musical comedy directed by Edward F. Cline
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Penthouse Rhythm
1951
Rhythm Inn
2/1
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 fema...
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Rhythm Inn
1944
Cobra Woman
5.217/23
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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Cobra Woman
1950
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
0/0
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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