Monte Landis
Known for: Acting
Born: April 20, 1933
Died: December 14, 2024
Place of birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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.
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Filmography
21 movies · 23 TV shows, newest first
8.0
High Society
1995
6.8
Burke's Law
1994
6.4
The Golden Palace
1992
5.7
Heart Condition
1990
4.8
The Underachievers
1988
8.0
Sledge Hammer!
1986
7.6
The Golden Girls
1985
6.7
Real Genius
1985
6.5
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
1985
6.7
Body Double
1984
5.6
Yellowbeard
1983
7.0
The Bastard
1978
NR
The Feather And Father Gang
1977
4.1
Linda Lovelace for President
1975
7.9
Young Frankenstein
1974
6.4
Police Woman
1974
4.5
Candy Stripe Nurses
1974
6.5
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
8.1
Columbo
1971
4.6
Myra Breckinridge
1970
7.2
Hawaii Five-O
1968
7.1
Targets
1968
6.8
The High Chaparral
1967
6.5
The Second Hundred Years
1967
5.0
Double Trouble
1967
6.9
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
1966
8.0
Occasional Wife
1966
6.5
The Monkees
1966
7.3
Batman
1966
8.0
Get Smart
1965
NR
Kiss Me, Kate
1964
7.7
Charade
1963
10.0
Espionage
1963
6.4
What a Crazy World
1963
8.2
The Human Jungle
1963
7.7
On the Beat
1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
6.1
Play It Cool
1962
5.8
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
5.7
On the Fiddle
1961
6.5
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
1960
6.9
School for Scoundrels
19607.5
International Detective
1959
6.4
The Mouse That Roared
1959