Louise Collins obit

Louise Collins, Remembered

 

She was not on the list.

Louise Collins was born on November 16, 1932 in Wabash, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for The Third Man (1959), Danger Man (1960) and The Saint (1962). She died on August 19, 2021.

I was truly saddened to hear of the death of Louise Collins, age 87, on August 18. She was a true character that greatly impressed this 22-year-old when I first met her with her new husband, racing driver Peter Collins, in September 1957.

 

By a strange coincidence I had actually seen a photograph of “ …actress Louise King” that had been published in Sports Illustrated magazine earlier that year where, in their report of the Sebring race, they had snapped a photo of this fair-haired actress sitting beside one of the cars. I was impressed!

This American actress enjoyed a brief period of popularity on British television in the late 1950s and early 1960s, appearing regularly as a panelist on "What's My Line?" and acting in several series. She married the British racing driver Peter Collins, who was killed on the track in 1958, only one year after their wedding.

In due course, Louis Collins married Gordon Burwash, a Canadian film producer and screenwriter with whom she lived in Sarasota, Florida. He died in 1980.

Birth name

Louise Lauette Cordier

 

Actress

Moment of Truth

7.0

TV Series

Nancy Wallace (as Louise King)

1964–1965

 

The Sentimental Agent (1963)

The Sentimental Agent

7.0

TV Series

Miss Ryman (as Louise King)

1963

1 episode

 

Roger Moore in The Saint (1962)

The Saint

7.5

TV Series

Joyce Eade (as Louise King)

1963

1 episode

 

Emergency-Ward 10 (1957)

Emergency-Ward 10

6.2

TV Series

Sheree Bretson (as Louise King)

1963

1 episode

 

William Frawley, Don Grady, Stanley Livingston, and Fred MacMurray in My Three Sons (1960)

My Three Sons

7.1

TV Series

Mrs. Whiteman

Mrs. Duffield (as Louise King)

1962–1963

2 episodes

 

Nick Adams in Saints and Sinners (1962)

Saints and Sinners

5.6

TV Series

Lady Iris Tudor (as Louise King)

1962

1 episode

 

International Detective (1959)

International Detective

6.8

TV Series

Liz

Dale Prescott

1960–1961

2 episodes

 

Patrick McGoohan in Danger Man (1960)

Danger Man

7.9

TV Series

Liz

Sally Raymond

1960–1961

2 episodes

 

The Four Just Men (1959)

The Four Just Men

7.1

TV Series

Inga

1960

1 episode

 

Rendezvous (1957)

Rendezvous

7.4

TV Series

Mary Johns

1960

1 episode

 

ITV Play of the Week (1955)

ITV Play of the Week

6.7

TV Series

Nancy Lee Faulkner

1960

1 episode

 

Michael Rennie in The Third Man (1959)

The Third Man

7.7

TV Series

Mary Halliday

1959

1 episode

 

BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950)

BBC Sunday-Night Theatre

7.0

TV Series

Jennie

1959

1 episode

 

Lux Video Theatre (1950)

Lux Video Theatre

7.3

TV Series

Julia (as Louise King)

1953

1 episode