Monte Landis
Acting

Monte Landis

Born 20 April 1933 · Glasgow, Scotland, UK · Died 14 December 2024

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.

Known for

Young Frankenstein
Body Double
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Columbo
Batman
Real Genius
Get Smart
The Golden Girls
Targets
Hawaii Five-O
Yellowbeard
The Mouse That Roared
Heart Condition
The Underachievers
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Real Genius
Body Double
Yellowbeard
Linda Lovelace for President
Young Frankenstein
Candy Stripe Nurses
Myra Breckinridge
Targets
Double Trouble
Kiss Me, Kate
What a Crazy World
Play It Cool
On the Beat
On the Fiddle
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
School for Scoundrels
The Mouse That Roared
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