Monte Landis
Born: 1933-04-20, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Died: 2024-12-14
Biography
Max Landstein (born 20 April 1933) was a Scottish-American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the comic foil in multiple episodes of The Monkees, most notably as "Mr. Zero" in "The Devil and Peter Tork". He began his career in Britain before moving to the United States in 1963. He also had a career in Paris in the mid-50s as emcee in cabarets and jazz clubs (Crazy Horse, Club Saint-Germain, etc.) -he played his own role later in Charade (1963)- and choreographer for the French vocal group The Blue Stars of France.
Filmography
- Hawaii Five-O (1969)
- Police Woman (1974)
- Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (1971)
- Sledge Hammer! (1986)
- The Monkees (1966)
- The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966)
- The Human Jungle (1963)
- Espionage (1963)
- Young Frankenstein (1974)
- Body Double (1984)
- Real Genius (1985)
- Charade (1963)
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
- Heart Condition (1990)
- Yellowbeard (1983)
- Targets (1968)
- The Mouse That Roared (1959)
- Myra Breckinridge (1970)
- On the Fiddle (1961)
- The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960)
- On the Beat (1962)
- Play It Cool (1962)
- Candy Stripe Nurses (1974)
- Kiss Me, Kate (1964)
- The Underachievers (1988)
- What a Crazy World (1963)