Charles Lane

Gender: Male
Born: 26th January 1905
Died: 9th July 2007
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Karen, Dear Phoebe, The Winds of War, The Real McCoys, Dear Phoebe, The Lucy Show, The Pruitts of Southampton
Movies: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Sadie Thompson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Smart Money, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Good Neighbor Sam, Barnacle Bill, The Music Man, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, Date with an Angel, Strange Invaders, It's a Wonderful Life, The Gnome-Mobile, One More Spring, Ticket to Paradise, The Aristocats, Strange Behavior, Three for Bedroom "C", Arsenic and Old Lace, Broadway Scandals, Twentieth Century, Friendly Enemies, Sybil, The Winning of Barbara Worth, Golden Boy, State of the Union, The Ugly Dachshund, My Dog, The Thief, Papa's Delicate Condition, Borderline, Billie, But Not for Me, Teacher's Pet, Home in Wyomin', The Outsider, The Little Dragons, Born to Sing, We Who Are Young, Remains to Be Seen, Lucky Night, We're on the Jury, Obliging Young Lady, Rendezvous in Space, About Face

Charles Lane, (born Charles Gerstle Levison January 26, 1905 – July 9, 2007), was an American character actor seen in many movies and TV shows, and at the time of his death may have been the oldest living professional American actor. 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) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). 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.

Lane spent a short time as an insurance salesman before taking to the stage at the Pasadena Playhouse. Actor/director Irving Pichel first suggested that Lane go into acting in 1929, and four years later Lane was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild. He became a favorite of director Frank Capra, who used him in several films; in It's a Wonderful Life, Lane played a seemingly hard-nosed rent collector for the miserly Henry Potter (Lionel Barrymore), who tried to explain to his employer that many of his tenants were moving out, taking

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