Monte Rawlins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMonte Rawlins
American actor
Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1907
Place of Birth: Yakima, Washington, United States
Date of Death: 13-Jul-1988
Profession: actor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Monte Rawlins
- Monte Rawlins, born Dean Calvin Spencer (February 21, 1907 – July 13, 1988), also called Monte "Alamo" Rawlins, was a short-lived western film star of the late 1930s, often dubbed The Masked Phantom due to his better known role.
- The B-rated "Masked Phantom" role was his only starring role. In the late 1930s, Columbia Pictures had been searching for a new face to be a new cowboy western star.
- They were having success with several, including Ken Maynard and Bill Elliott.
- Originally from Yakima, Washington, Rawlins had made his way to Hollywood by way of him being a barnstormer pilot, starring in an air show.
- He first worked doing aerial stunt work for films, and played two small bit roles in films, and was noticed by Columbia and approached for his own series.
- The series, titled Adventures of the Masked Phantom, opened in 1939, with Rawlins in the lead role.The series was to have a trio that travels, rescuing people as they go, overcoming troubles and dangers that they encounter along the way.
- Reviews were not bad, but indicated that veteran actors George Douglas,and Curley Dresden had saved the series.
- Rawlins' reviews were horrible—it would be his last acting role. At the beginning of World War II, Rawlins joined the US Marine Corps, and served with distinction until the war's end.
- He remained in the US Marine Reserves, and was called up for active duty for the Korean War also.
- He remained in the Marine Reserves, and began working, upon his return from Korea, as a sound engineer for both Monogram Pictures and Disney.
- He retired from both Disney and the Marine Reserves, moving to Hawaii, where he later died of natural causes in 1988.
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