William Collier Jr.

William Collier Jr. was an American stage performer, film actor, and producer who worked in both silent and sound pictures and appeared in at least 89 movies. He was born in New York City and started acting on stage when he was seven. That early experience led to his first screen role at fourteen in The Bugle Call (1916). During the 1920s he became a popular leading man, and he later moved successfully from silent films into sound. He stopped acting in 1935. In 1937 he went to England to produce movies, and after his late 1940s return to the United States, he made television dramas. In February 1960 he received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star. He died in 1987.