Charles Lane
Born: 1905-01-26 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 2007-07-09
Known For: Acting
Biography
Charles Lane (born Charles Gerstle Levison; January 26, 1905 – July 9, 2007) was an American character actor and centenarian whose career spanned 77 years. Lane gave his last performance at the age of 101 as a narrator in 2006. Lane appeared in many Frank Capra films, including You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Riding High (1950). He was a favored supporting actor of Lucille Ball, who often used him as a no-nonsense authority figure and comedic foe of her scatterbrained TV character on her TV series I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour and The Lucy Show. His first film of more than 250 was as a hotel clerk in Smart Money (1931) starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filmography
2006
- Legends as Roy (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005
- The History of Hooterville as Self
1995
- The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes as Regent Yarborough
1994
- A Bewitched Christmas as Jesse Mortimer
1993
- Acting on Impulse as Bellhop
1990
1986
- L.A. Law as Walter Graf
- When the Bough Breaks as Van der Graaf
1985
- The Comedy Factory as George McCloskey
- Murphy's Romance as Amos Abbott
- Otherworld as Velcrows Widley
1984
- Hunter as Motel Owner
1983
- The Winds of War as Adm. William Standley
- Strange Invaders as Prof. Hollister
- Sunset Limousine as Reinhammer
1982
- St. Elsewhere as Richard Welte
- The Devlin Connection
1981
- The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies as Chief
- Strange Behavior as Donovan
1980
- The Little Dragons as J.J.
1978
- Mork & Mindy
- Movie Movie as Judge / Mr. Pennington
1977
- Lou Grant
- Soap as Judge Petrillo
- Weekend Special
1976
- Sybil as Dr. Quinoness
1973
- Hitched as Round Tree
- Adam's Rib as Mayor
1972
- The Rookies
- Maude
- Temperatures Rising as Fulton Briggs
- The Sandy Duncan Show
- Get to Know Your Rabbit as Mr. Beeman
- The Great Man's Whiskers as Philbrick
1970
- The Odd Couple as Sid
- The Aristocats as Lawyer (voice)
- Nanny and the Professor
1969
- My Dog, the Thief as Mr. Pfeiffer
- The Debbie Reynolds Show
1968
- The Doris Day Show as Judge Carter
- What's So Bad About Feeling Good? as Dr. Shapiro
1967
- The Flying Nun
- Judd for the Defense
- He & She as Mr. Simpson
- The Gnome-Mobile as Dr. Scoggins
1966
- Love on a Rooftop
- The Ghost & Mr. Chicken as Whitlow
- The Ugly Dachshund as Judge
- The Pruitts of Southampton as Maxwell
1965
- Get Smart as Uncle Abner
- The Wild Wild West as Roger Creed
- Green Acres as Mr. Wilson
- F Troop
- Honey West as Ash
- Billie as Coach Jones
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies as Man
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! as Editor
1964
- Bewitched as Mr. Cushman
- The Munsters
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Ralph Harrison
- The Carpetbaggers as Eugene Denby
- Good Neighbor Sam as Jack Bailey
- Wendy and Me
- The New Interns as Connors
- Rendezvous in Space as Interviewee
- The Cara Williams Show
- The Bing Crosby Show
- Looking for Love as Director
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Homer Bedloe
- Burke's Law as Dr. Lusk
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Charles Eckhardt
- The Farmer's Daughter
- The Bill Dana Show
- The Wheeler Dealers as Judge (uncredited)
- Papa's Delicate Condition as Mr. Cosgrove
1962
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Foster Phinney
- The Lucy Show as Mr. Barnsdahl
- The Music Man as Constable
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1960
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Mr. Peckinpaugh
- The Untouchables as Alcatraz Official (uncredited)
- Dennis the Menace
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
- The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Dr. Shelley
- But Not for Me as Al Atwood
- The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock as Standard Bates
- The Mating Game as Inspector General Bigelow
- Fibber McGee & Molly as Salesman
1958
1957
- Perry Mason as Dr. Williams
- Maverick as Proprietor
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective as Lt. Kevin Anders (uncredited)
- The Real McCoys
- Bachelor Father
- The Restless Gun as Mayor Peter Mercer
- The Thin Man
- Whirlybirds
- The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour as Claims Clerk (uncredited)
- God Is My Partner as Judge Warner
1956
- The Gale Storm Show as Pierce
- The Birds and the Bees as Charlie Jenkins
- On Trial
1955
- The Millionaire as Simon Whipple
- Screen Director's Playhouse
- The People's Choice
- Star Stage
1954
- Studio 57 as Henry
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Mr. Pfeiffer
- Willy
- Dear Phoebe as Mr. Fosdick
1953
- Topper as Mr. Kittler
- Remains to Be Seen as Delapp
- The Affairs of Dobie Gillis as Prof. Obispo
- The Juggler as Rosenberg
1952
- The Sniper as Loud Drunk at Club
- Today as Self
1951
- I Love Lucy as Mr. Stanley
- Here Comes the Groom as FBI Agent Ralph Burchard (uncredited)
- I Can Get It for You Wholesale as Herman Pulvermacher (uncredited)
- Criminal Lawyer as Frederick Waterman
1950
- Riding High as Erickson
- Lux Video Theatre as Walter Medford
- Backfire as Dr. Nolan (uncredited)
- The Second Face as Mr. Westcott
- The Yellow Cab Man as L.A. Casualty Co. Executive (uncredited)
1949
- Mighty Joe Young as Producer (uncredited)
- Miss Grant Takes Richmond as Mr. Woodruff (uncredited)
- The House Across the Street as Apartment Manager (uncredited)
- You're My Everything as Mr. Eddie Pflum
1948
- Race Street as Switchboard Operator Clerk (uncredited)
- Smart Woman as Reporter
- State of the Union as Blink Moran
- Call Northside 777 as Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
- The Gentleman from Nowhere as Fenmore
- Moonrise as Mr. Chandler
- Apartment for Peggy as Prof. Collins (uncredited)
- Out of the Storm as Mr. Evans
1947
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue as Landlord (uncredited)
- Louisiana as McCormack
- Living in a Big Way as Hawkins (uncredited)
- Roses Are Red as Lipton
- Intrigue as Hotel Desk Clerk
- Bury Me Dead as Brighton
1946
- It's a Wonderful Life as Real Estate Salesman
- Mysterious Intruder as Detective Burns
- Just Before Dawn as Dr. Steiner (uncredited)
- The Invisible Informer as Nick Steele
- A Close Call for Boston Blackie as Hack Hagen (uncredited)
1944
- Arsenic and Old Lace as Reporter at Marriage License Office
1943
- Mission to Moscow as Man in Kitchenin Montage (uncredited)
1942
- Flying Tigers as Repkin (uncredited)
- Broadway as Hungry Harry
- About Face as Rental Car Manager
- Tarzan's New York Adventure as Sargent's Lawyer Gould Beaton
- The Lady Is Willing as K.K. Miller
- Lady in a Jam as Government Man (uncredited)
- Pardon My Sarong as Bus Company Superintendent (uncredited)
- Thru Different Eyes as Mott
- The Mad Martindales as Virgil Hickling
- A Gentleman at Heart as Holloway
- A Close Call for Ellery Queen as Coroner
- Sealed Lips as Attorney Emanuel 'Manny' T. Dixon
- The Adventures of Martin Eden as Mr. White
- Born to Sing as Johnny
- They All Kissed the Bride as Spotter
- Obliging Young Lady as Private Detective Smith
- What's Cookin'? as K.D. Reynolds
- Home in Wyomin' as Newspaper Editor
- Friendly Enemies as Braun
- Sunday Punch as Ringside spectator at Ole's first fight (uncredited)
1941
- Back Street as Reporter for Associated News
- Barnacle Bill as Auctioneer
- The Big Store as Finance Company Man (uncredited)
- Ball of Fire as Larsen
- I Wake Up Screaming as Keating- Florist
- The Great Man's Lady as Pierce (uncredited)
- Birth of the Blues as Wilbur - Bijou Theater Manager (uncredited)
- Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime as Dr. Prouty (coroner)
- Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery as Doc Prouty
- New York Town as Census Taker (uncredited)
- Ride 'Em Cowboy as Martin Manning (uncredited)
- Appointment for Love as Smith (uncredited)
- Three Girls About Town as Mortician
- Sis Hopkins as Mayor's aide
- You're the One as Announcer
- Buy Me That Town as J. Montague Gainsborough
- Repent at Leisure as Clarence Morgan
1940
- Johnny Apollo as Assistant D.A.
- It's a Date as Mr. Horner (uncredited)
- Primrose Path as Mr. Smith (uncredited)
- The Invisible Woman as Growley
- Edison, the Man as Second Lecturer
- The Texas Rangers Ride Again as Train Passenger (uncredited)
- Rhythm on the River as Bernard Schwartz
- We Who Are Young as Perkins
- The Leather Pushers as Henry 'Mitch' Mitchell
- On Their Own as Johnson
- The Great Profile as Director
- The Crooked Road as Phil Wesner, Defense Attorney
- Queen of the Mob as Horace Grimley
- You Can't Fool Your Wife as Salesman
- City for Conquest as Al - Dance Team Manager (uncredited)
- The Doctor Takes a Wife as Reporter (uncredited)
- Blondie Plays Cupid as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- Buck Benny Rides Again as Charlie Graham
- Ellery Queen, Master Detective as Dr. Prouty
- Dancing on a Dime as Freeman Taylor
1939
- Golden Boy as Reporter Drake
- Inside Story as District Attorney
- Lucky Night as Carpenter
- Boy Slaves as Albee
- The Cat and the Canary as Reporter
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Nosey
- Television Spy as Mr. Adler
- Beware Spooks! as Moore (uncredited)
- Honeymoon in Bali as Photographer (uncredited)
- Rose of Washington Square as Sam Kress
- Second Fiddle as Studio Chief
- They All Come Out as Psychiatrist
- News Is Made at Night as District Attorney Rufe Reynolds
- Fifth Avenue Girl as Union Representative (uncredited)
- Charlie McCarthy, Detective as Charlie's Doctor
- Let Us Live as Auto Show Salesman (uncredited)
- Miracles for Sale as Fleetwood Apartments Desk Clerk
1938
- Kentucky as Auctioneer
- Professor Beware as Joe - Photographer
- You Can't Take It with You as Henderson
- Joy of Living as Fan in Margaret's Dressing Room (Uncredited)
- The Rage of Paris as Department Head (uncredited)
- Three Loves Has Nancy as Cleaning Store Manager (uncredited)
- Blondie as Furniture Salesman (uncredited)
- Always in Trouble as Donald Gower
- Cocoanut Grove as Weaver
1937
- Born Reckless as Barnes's lawyer
- Nothing Sacred as Rubenstein (uncredited)
- Criminal Lawyer as Attorney (uncredited)
- Sea Devils as Judge (uncredited)
- Big Business as Webster - Bank Representative
- Hot Water as Grayson (uncredited)
- Bad Guy as Attorney
- Danger – Love at Work as Gilroy, an attorney
- Ali Baba Goes to Town as Doctor
- One Mile from Heaven as Webb
- Internes Can't Take Money as Grote
- Venus Makes Trouble as District Attorney
- We're on the Jury as Horace Smith
- Trapped by G-Men as Fingers
1936
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as Hallor (uncredited)
- The Milky Way as Willard
- 36 Hours to Kill as Lawyer Rickert
- Easy to Take as Skip
- Two-Fisted Gentleman as Joe Gordon
- The Adventures of Frank Merriwell as Man in Front Row (archive footage)
- Lady Luck as Feinberg
1935
- Ginger as Judge (uncredited)
- Woman Wanted as Defense Attorney Herman (uncredited)
- The Florentine Dagger as Man in Front Row (archive footage)
- One More Spring as Representative
- Two for Tonight as Writer
- Here Comes the Band as Mr. Scurry
1934
- The Show-Off as Mr. Weitzenkorn
- Broadway Bill as Morgan's Henchman (uncredited)
- Let's Talk It Over as Reporter
- Twenty Million Sweethearts as Reporter (uncredited)
- The Band Plays On as Shyster Lawyer
- A Wicked Woman as Defense Attorney Beardsley (uncredited)
- Looking for Trouble as Switchboard Operator
- I'll Fix It as Al Nathan
- Twentieth Century as Max Jacobs
1933
- 42nd Street as Playwright (uncredited)
- The Bowery as Doctor (uncredited)
- My Woman as Conn
- Mr. Skitch as Hotel Clerk
- Central Airport as Amarillo Radio Operator (uncredited)
- Blondie Johnson as Cashier (uncredited)
- Private Detective 62 as Process Server (Uncredited)
- Broadway Thru a Keyhole as Columnist #2
- Gold Diggers of 1933 as Society Reporter (uncredited)
- Employees' Entrance as Shoe Salesman (uncredited)
- Advice to the Lovelorn
- She Had to Say Yes as Mr. Bernstein (uncredited)
- Grand Slam as Waiter at Nicolai Restaurant
1932
- Union Depot as Luggage Checkroom Clerk (uncredited)
- Blessed Event as Kane
- The Mouthpiece as Hotel Desk Clerk (Uncredited)
1931
- Smart Money as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- Blonde Crazy as Hotel Desk Clerk (uncredited)
- The Road to Singapore as Desk Clerk at Club (uncredited)
- Manhattan Parade as Desk clerk
1930
- City Girl as Man at Train Station (uncredited)