Monte Collins was an actor and screenwriter. He starred in silent short comedies in the late 1920s, but never attained top billing in the talkies. He co-starred in 1932 short Show Business starring ZaSu Pitts and Thelma Todd, teamed with comic Tom Kennedy. He co-starred in three Buster Keaton comedies, and appeared in comedies with Harry Langdon, Charley Chase, El Brendel, Andy Clyde, Vera Vague, and as the mother of The Three Stooges in their 1942 comedy Cactus Makes Perfect.