William Collier Jr.
Actor
Biography
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William Collier Jr. (born Charles F. Gall Jr., February 12, 1902 – February 5, 1987) was an American film and stage actor who appeared in 89 films.
William Collier (nicknamed "Buster") was born in New York City. When his parents divorced, his mother, the actress Paula Marr, remarried the actor William Collier Sr. who adopted Charles (the two did share a resemblance) and gave the boy the new name William Collier Jr. Collier's acting experience in childhood, having first appeared on stage at age seven, helped him to get his first movie role at the age of 14 in The Bugle Call (1916).
He went on to become a popular leading man in the 1920s and made the transition from silent into sound film, however he retired from acting in 1935, and in 1937 went to work as a movie producer in England. At the end of the 1940s he returned to America and went on to produce drama series for television. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Filmography
Cimarron
as The Kid 1931
Back Stage
as Stagehand 1919
The Story of Temple Drake
as Toddy Gowan 1933
Street Scene
as Sam Kaplan 1931
The Sea Hawk
as Marsak 1924
Free and Easy
as Master of Ceremonies 1930
So This Is Love
as Jerry McGuire 1928
Rain or Shine
as Bud Conway 1930
Tide of Empire
as Romauldo Guerrero 1929
The Soul of Youth
as Dick Armstrong 1920
The Big Gamble
as Johnnie Ames 1931
The Phantom Express
as Bruce Harrington 1932
Broadminded
as Jack Hackett 1931
Reducing
as Johnnie Beasley 1931
Dancers in the Dark
as Floyd Stevens 1932
The Secret Witness
as Arthur Jones aka Casey 1931