
Lois Collier
Acting
1919-03-21 - Present
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.
Credits

A Night in CasablancaasAnnette

Cobra WomanasVeeda

Blondie Goes to CollegeasCoed

The Naughty NinetiesasMiss Caroline Jackson

The Affairs of Jimmy ValentineasReceptionist

Young IdeasasCo-ed (uncredited)

West of CimarronasDoris Conway

Slave GirlasAleta

Jungle WomanasJoan Fletcher

Weird WomanasMargaret Mercer

Miss Mink of 1949asAlice Forrester

Ice-CapadesasAudition Girl

Jungle QueenasPamela Courtney

Sailors on LeaveasPretty Brunette (uncredited)

The Cat CreepsasGay Elliot

Missile MonstersasHelen

The Crimson CanaryasJean Walker

Girls of the RoadasRoad Girl (Uncredited)

Santa Fe ScoutsasClaire Robbins

Flying Disc Man from MarsasHelen Hall

The Phantom PlainsmenasJudy Barrett

Arthur Takes OverasMargaret Bixby

Girl on the SpotasKathy Lorenz

Westward HoasAnne Henderson

Get GoingasDoris

The Man Who Returned to LifeasMary Tuller

Jungle SafariasPamela Courtney
Prices Unlimitedas

Penthouse RhythmasLinda Reynolds

Rhythm InnasBetty Parker

Ladies CourageousasJill Romilly

Out of the StormasGinny Powell

Wild BeautyasLinda Gibson

Gauchos of El DoradoasEllen

My Son, The HeroasNancy Cavanaugh

Outlaws of Cherokee TrailasDoris Sheldon

Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a ChanceasAnne Howe Palooka

Raiders of the RangeasJean Travers

She's for MeasEileen Crane