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Lois Collier
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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 …
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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.
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Lois Collier's Filmography
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Missile Monsters
as Helen
Jungle Safari
as Pamela Courtney
Rhythm Inn
as Betty Parker
Flying Disc Man from Mars
as Helen Hall
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance
as Anne Howe Palooka
Miss Mink of 1949
as Alice Forrester
Out of the Storm
as Ginny Powell
Arthur Takes Over
as Margaret Bixby
Slave Girl
as Aleta
Wild Beauty
as Linda Gibson
The Cat Creeps
as Gay Elliot
A Night in Casablanca
as Annette
Girl on the Spot
as Kathy Lorenz
The Crimson Canary
as Jean Walker
Penthouse Rhythm
as Linda Reynolds
The Naughty Nineties
as Miss Caroline Jackson
Jungle Queen
as Pamela Courtney
Jungle Woman
as Joan Fletcher
Cobra Woman
as Veeda
Follow the Boys
as Lois Collier (uncredited)
No Poster
Prices Unlimited
Weird Woman
as Margaret Mercer
Ladies Courageous
as Jill Romilly
She's for Me
as Eileen Crane
Young Ideas
as Co-ed (uncredited)
Get Going
as Doris
Santa Fe Scouts
as Claire Robbins
My Son, The Hero
as Nancy Cavanaugh
The Phantom Plainsmen
as Judy Barrett
Westward Ho
as Anne Henderson
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as Receptionist
Raiders of the Range
as Jean Travers
The Man Who Returned to Life
as Mary Tuller
Blondie Goes to College
as Coed
West of Cimarron
as Doris Conway
Gauchos of El Dorado
as Ellen
Sailors on Leave
as Pretty Brunette (uncredited)
Outlaws of Cherokee Trail
as Doris Sheldon
Ice-Capades
as Audition Girl
Girls of the Road
as Road Girl (Uncredited)