Monte Landis
Biography
Monte Landis was a Scottish-American actor who appeared in films and on television on both sides of the Atlantic. He was born in Glasgow and launched his career in Britain, then settled in the United States in 1963. In the mid-1950s he worked in Paris as an emcee in cabarets and jazz clubs, among them the Crazy Horse and Club Saint-Germain, and he did choreography for The Blue Stars of France, a French vocal group. Television viewers knew him for comic foil parts in several episodes of The Monkees, notably Mr. Zero in The Devil and Peter Tork. His films include The Mouse That Roared (1959), School for Scoundrels (1960), Charade (1963), in which he played his own role, Double Trouble (1967), Targets (1968), Young Frankenstein (1974), Body Double (1984) and Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), along with Myra Breckinridge, Yellowbeard and Real Genius. He died in 2024.
91years old at death
- Born Glasgow
- Died
- Star sign: TaurusFirst day of the sign, on the Aries cusp
- Max Landstein (birth name)Also credited as Monty Landis
Movie Career
- Films
- 8
- Career span
- 26 years1959 to 1985
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A change of course
Before moving to the United States in 1963, Landis spent the mid-1950s in Paris as an emcee in cabarets and jazz clubs such as the Crazy Horse and Club Saint-Germain, and he later played his own role in Charade.
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