Monte Collins

Actor · 1898 – 1951 · New York City, New York, USA

From Wikipedia Monte Collins (also credited as Monty Collins; December 3, 1898 – June 1, 1951) was an American film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 167 films between 1920 and 1948. He also wrote for 32 films between 1930 and 1951. Dapper, pencil-mustached Collins starred in silent short comedies in the late 1920s. These were produced by Educational Pictures and often directed by Jules White. The coming of sound in movies had no ill effect on Collins's career; he was not as big a name as Buster Keaton or Laurel and Hardy, so Collins had no preconceived screen image that could be shattered by talkies. Although Collins took to talkies easily (he and Vernon Dent sing together in the early sound short Ticklish Business), he never established himself as a major comedy star. Throughout the 1930s he appeared in secondary roles (businessmen, butlers, soldiers, salesmen, etc.) in both feature films and short subjects. One of his last credits was supplying material for Laurel and Hardy's final film, Atoll K (1951). Filmed in France by French and Italian cast and crew members, the production was hectic and chaotic for the English-speaking stars. The finished film carries the unique credit, "Gags by Monty Collins." Collins was about to launch a career in television when he died of a heart attack in 1951, at age 52.

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Movie6.1
ComedyDrama
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
Made for Each Other
1939 · 57 votes
Movie6.3
ComedyRomance
Bold performer Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent financial need, she agrees to a risky new number: she'll put her head into the lion's mouth! With this attraction, the circus makes it to New York and Tira can pursue her dearest occupation — flirting with rich men and accepting expensive presents.
I'm No Angel
1933 · 66 votes
Movie5.9
ComedyRomance
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.
A Lady Takes a Chance
1943 · 23 votes
Movie6.3
ComedyMystery
Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she attempts to clear the name of a friend accused of the killing, her wacky, scatterbrained ways constantly impede the investigation.
The Gracie Allen Murder Case
1939 · 7 votes
Movie6.5
AdventureComedy
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.
Three Girls About Town
1941 · 4 votes
Movie3.9
CrimeDrama
An idealistic young newspaper reporter crusades against organized crime.
Star Reporter
1939 · 7 votes
Movie7.3
ComedyRomance
Ballet star Petrov arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer and musical star he's fallen for but barely knows. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumour mill and turned into a hot gossip item—that the two celebrities are secretly married.
Shall We Dance
1937 · 124 votes
Movie8.0
Comedy
Monte tries to make a turkey dinner.
Troubles Galore
1928
Movie7.0
Comedy
Harry wins a turkey at a raffle.
Cold Turkey
1940 · 1 votes
Movie5.0
ComedyWestern
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940 · 2 votes
Movie10.0
A newlyweds' honeymoon trip is detoured by a run-in with a troupe of gypsies, who kidnap the bride while the groom must tangle with the gypsy queen and a gorilla before resuming the honeymoon.
Wedding Slips
1928 · 1 votes
Movie7.0
Comedy
Monte is running for mayor of Hollywood against a crooked gang member. When the mob kidnaps Monte, it's up to the Hollywood Actors Club to save him.
Hollywood Runaround
1932 · 1 votes
Movie7.0
Comedy
Three klutzy moving men end up in a museum that may or may not be haunted - slapstick hijinks ensue.
Phoney Cronies
1942 · 1 votes
Movie8.0
Comedy
Quick Service
1926 · 1 votes
Movie8.0
Comedy
Two bumbling, would-be private detectives, Tom Kennedy and Monte Collins, are hired to protect a maestro's valuable Stradvarius. But there is a girl named Rosina and a pool hall involved and that means trouble ahead for the pair.
Fiddling Around
1938 · 1 votes
Movie10.0
DramaCrime
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.
Scandal Sheet
1931 · 1 votes
Movie8.0
Comedy
To avoid getting a speeding ticket from a motorcycle cop, Tom pretends to be a surgeon rushing Monty to the hospital for an emergency operation.
Just Speeding
1936 · 1 votes
Movie6.7
RomanceDrama
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
Maisie Gets Her Man
1942 · 3 votes
Movie7.0
Comedy
An examination of the problem of the house guest who has overstayed is welcome, and how to get rid of him.
Guest Pests
1945 · 2 votes
Movie
Comedy
Monte Collins in trouble out west with the animals and castor oil.
Fall In
1928
Movie10.0
Comedy
Former silent screen comic Harry Langdon earned above-title billing for the final time in his long career in this roughhewn but amusing World War II farce released by Poverty Row company PRC. Langdon and Charles "Buddy" Rogers are newspaper messengers helping reporter Ray Walker obtain an interview with journalist-hating inventor Richard Kipling. But before they know it, Harry and Buddy become unwittingly involved in plans to steal the professor's newest invention: a machine gun.
House of Errors
1942 · 1 votes
Movie5.9
DramaRomance
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
The Miracle Man
1932 · 7 votes
Movie9.0
Comedy
Monte and his new wife are moving into their new home. All is going well until her family decides to drop in for a visit.
Unrelated Relations
1936 · 1 votes
Movie7.0
ComedyRomance
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
The Town Went Wild
1944 · 3 votes