Lane to Rest
Or
Date with an Angel
Charles Lane, who appeared in nearly every film since Georges Melies’ A Trip to the Moon, has died at the age of 102. One of the last survivors of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Lane took up acting at the age of 24, was a founding member of the Screen Actor’s Guild and his performance as narrator of The Night Before Christmas last year gave him at least 338 screen roles. His anonymous ubiquity will be featured in the upcoming documentary You Know the Face. Lane lent his bespectacled hatchet face and distinctive booming nasal voice to innumerable cranky bureaucrats, judges and other short-tempered officials. Among his more notable roles was as the rent collector who pointed out to Lionel Barrymore that this Bailey kid might be on to something in It’s a Wonderful Life, a constable in pursuit of Harold Hill in The Music Man, and the man at the desk of the marriage license office before Elaine learns that insanity doesn’t just run in the family of Mortimer Brewster, it practically gallops, in Arsenic and Old Lace. Most will remember him from his plethora of TV roles, such as Lucille Ball’s frequent foil on I Love Lucy and her boss on the first season of The Lucy Show, scheming railroad agent Homer Bedloe on Petticoat Junction, Foster Phinney on The Beverly Hillbillies and irritated shopkeep Mr. Finch on Dennis the Menace. He seemed ancient in these roles from sitcom reruns of my youth, so it was a surprise to find out that Lane was still alive to receive birthday honors at the TVLand Awards two years ago, where he announced that he was still available for work.
One for my master. One for my dame. And 2.2222222 points for each Pooligan who’s been waiting on Lane. Greg’s Team Quincy moves into 7th, James takes 8th, Shawn’s Team Old assumes 9th, Mike’s Math Squad climbs into 11th, Kirsti’s You’ve Got a Date with an Angel (of Death) slides into 13th, Michelle’s Quick and the Dead leaps into 23rd with Mark’s Angels With Wrinkled Faces III: You'll Never Draw Breath in This Town Again! close behind in 24th and Monty’s Comedy of Terrors and my They Are Become Death lag behind at 37th.
Date with an Angel
Charles Lane, who appeared in nearly every film since Georges Melies’ A Trip to the Moon, has died at the age of 102. One of the last survivors of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Lane took up acting at the age of 24, was a founding member of the Screen Actor’s Guild and his performance as narrator of The Night Before Christmas last year gave him at least 338 screen roles. His anonymous ubiquity will be featured in the upcoming documentary You Know the Face. Lane lent his bespectacled hatchet face and distinctive booming nasal voice to innumerable cranky bureaucrats, judges and other short-tempered officials. Among his more notable roles was as the rent collector who pointed out to Lionel Barrymore that this Bailey kid might be on to something in It’s a Wonderful Life, a constable in pursuit of Harold Hill in The Music Man, and the man at the desk of the marriage license office before Elaine learns that insanity doesn’t just run in the family of Mortimer Brewster, it practically gallops, in Arsenic and Old Lace. Most will remember him from his plethora of TV roles, such as Lucille Ball’s frequent foil on I Love Lucy and her boss on the first season of The Lucy Show, scheming railroad agent Homer Bedloe on Petticoat Junction, Foster Phinney on The Beverly Hillbillies and irritated shopkeep Mr. Finch on Dennis the Menace. He seemed ancient in these roles from sitcom reruns of my youth, so it was a surprise to find out that Lane was still alive to receive birthday honors at the TVLand Awards two years ago, where he announced that he was still available for work.
One for my master. One for my dame. And 2.2222222 points for each Pooligan who’s been waiting on Lane. Greg’s Team Quincy moves into 7th, James takes 8th, Shawn’s Team Old assumes 9th, Mike’s Math Squad climbs into 11th, Kirsti’s You’ve Got a Date with an Angel (of Death) slides into 13th, Michelle’s Quick and the Dead leaps into 23rd with Mark’s Angels With Wrinkled Faces III: You'll Never Draw Breath in This Town Again! close behind in 24th and Monty’s Comedy of Terrors and my They Are Become Death lag behind at 37th.
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