William Collier Jr.
ActingAlso Known As
Charles F. Gall Jr., Buster Collier, Buster Collier Jr., William 'Buster' Collier Jr., William 'Buster' Collier
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Movies
(78 total)
Little Caesar
as Tony Passa
Cimarron
as The Kid
Back Stage
as Stagehand
The Story of Temple Drake
as Toddy Gowan
Street Scene
as Sam Kaplan
The Sea Hawk
as Marsak
So This Is Love
as Jerry McGuire
Free and Easy
as Master of Ceremonies
Rain or Shine
as Bud Conway
Tide of Empire
as Romauldo Guerrero
The Soul of Youth
as Dick Armstrong
The Big Gamble
as Johnnie Ames
The Phantom Express
as Bruce Harrington
Broadminded
as Jack Hackett
Reducing
as Johnnie Beasley
Dancers in the Dark
as Floyd Stevens
The Secret Witness
as Arthur Jones aka Casey
Forgotten
as Joseph Meyers
Public Stenographer
as James 'Jimmy' Martin Jr.
The Show of Shows
as Performer in 'Bicycle Built for Two' Number (uncredited)
