Cast & creator
Monte Landis
Best known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Mike Douglas Show, Columbo
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.
Also known as: Monty Landis, Max Landstein
21
film credits
32
television credits
53
1959–1995 · acting roles
6.7
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (53)
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
Columbo
Steward
1971
Hawaii Five-O
Tony Madrid
1969
Get Smart
General Pajarito
1965
Batman
Basil
1966
The Golden Girls
Victor
1985
Police Woman
The Snitch
1974Police Woman
Nadje
1974
The High Chaparral
Tailor
1967
The Monkees
King
1966The Monkees
Oraculo
1966The Monkees
Zeckenbush
1966The Monkees
Duce
1966The Monkees
Shah-Ku
1966The Monkees
Pshaw
1966The Monkees
Zero
1966
Sledge Hammer!
Hotel Manager
1986Sledge Hammer!
Scotland Yard Inspector McCall
1986
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Promoter
1971
Burke's Law
Henderson
1994
Espionage
Inspector
1963
The Golden Palace
Mr. Ricchutti
1992
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Genghis Gomez VIII
1966
The Second Hundred Years
Charlie
1967International Detective
Sami Kharan
1959
Young Frankenstein
Gravedigger
1974
The Human Jungle
Sid Fiscal
1963
Occasional Wife
1966
Charade
Master of Ceremonies at Club (uncredited)
1963
Body Double
Sid Goldberg
1984
High Society
Waiter
1995
Real Genius
Dr. Dodd
1985
The Bastard
Turly
1978
The Feather And Father Gang
1977The Feather And Father Gang
Michael
1977
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Mario
1985
Heart Condition
Beverly Palm Hotel Waiter
1990
The Mouse That Roared
Cobbley
1959
Yellowbeard
Prison Guard
1983
Targets
Marshall Smith
1968
Double Trouble
Georgie
1967
Myra Breckinridge
Vince
1970
On the Fiddle
Conductor
1961
Linda Lovelace for President
B.S.
1975
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
Octavius
1960
On the Beat
Mr. Bassett
1962
The Underachievers
Carruthers
1988
Candy Stripe Nurses
Husband in Clinic
1974
School for Scoundrels
Fleetsnod
1960
What a Crazy World
Solly Gold
1963
Play It Cool
Horace - Beatnik Man
1962