Monte Landis

Personal Info

Birthday

April 20, 1933

(92 years old)

Place of Birth

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Also Known As

Monty Landis

Max Landstein

Monte Landis

Biography

Max Landstein (born 20 April 1933) is 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.

Known For

Columbo

Batman

Hawaii Five-O

The Golden Girls

Police Woman

The Monkees

The High Chaparral

Burke's Law

Filmography

1990
Heart Condition
as Beverly Palm Hotel Waiter
1988
The Underachievers
as Carruthers
1985
Real Genius
as Dr. Dodd
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
as Mario
1984
Body Double
as Sid Goldberg
1983
Yellowbeard
as Prison Guard
1978
The Bastard
as Turly
1975
Linda Lovelace for President
as B.S.
1974
Young Frankenstein
as Gravedigger
Candy Stripe Nurses
as Husband in Clinic
1970
Myra Breckinridge
as Vince
1968
Targets
as Marshall Smith
1967
Double Trouble
as Georgie
1963
Charade
as Master of Ceremonies at Club (uncredited)
What a Crazy World
as Solly Gold
1962
Play It Cool
as Horace - Beatnik Man
1961
On the Fiddle
as Conductor
1960
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
as Octavius
School for Scoundrels
as Fleetsnod
1959
The Mouse That Roared
as Cobbley