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Charles Lane

1905 - 2007

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Charles Lane (born Charles Gerstle Levison; January 26, 1905 – July 9, 2007) was an American character actor and centenarian whose career spanned 76 years. A prolific actor who played hundreds of roles in both film and TV, Lane often played sour, scowling and disagreeable clerks, doctors, judges, and middle-management authority figures. Recalling in 1981 his many roles, he said "They were all good parts, but they were jerks. If you have a type established, though, and you're any good, it can mean considerable work for you." The New York Times reported that Lane's persona was so familiar to the public, "that people would come up to him in the street and greet him, because they thought they knew him from their hometowns." Lane's first film role, of more than 250, was as a hotel clerk in Smart Money (1931) starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Lane is the 1,957th most popular actor (up from 7,801st in 2019), the 3,515th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,554th in 2019) and the 958th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Charles Lane ranks 1,957 out of 13,578. Before him are Michael Ansara, Anna Sten, Billie Burke, Cheech Marin, Michel Constantin, and Dragan Nikolić. After him are Steve Blum, Dolores Costello, Elisabeth Bergner, Estelle Getty, Götz George, and Lisa Edelstein.

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Among people born in 1905, Charles Lane ranks 122. Before him are Wanda Wasilewska, Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, The Boswell Sisters, Edgar Snow, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, and Paul Ariste. After him are Gaston Eyskens, Maximilian Grabner, Martin Gottfried Weiss, George Kelly, Ángel Bossio, and Dmitri Shepilov. Among people deceased in 2007, Charles Lane ranks 136. Before him are Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, Dashrath Manjhi, Sa'dun Hammadi, Delbert Mann, José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, and Andrej Kvašňák. After him are June Almeida, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Barbara West, Bo Yibo, Malietoa Tanumafili II, and Mikhail Ulyanov.

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Among people born in United States, Charles Lane ranks 3,515 out of 20,380. Before him are Douglas Hofstadter (1945), Johnny Carson (1925), Cy Young (1928), Billie Burke (1884), Frank Oppenheimer (1912), and Cheech Marin (1946). After him are Tom McCarthy (1966), Fanny Bullock Workman (1859), Richard Armitage (1945), Steve Blum (1960), Ethel Kennedy (1928), and Ace Frehley (1951).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Charles Lane ranks 958. Before him are Paul Michael Glaser (1943), Barry Sullivan (1912), Robert Conrad (1935), David Doyle (1929), Billie Burke (1884), and Cheech Marin (1946). After him are Steve Blum (1960), Dolores Costello (1903), Estelle Getty (1923), Lisa Edelstein (1966), Kelly Bishop (1944), and Cynthia Nixon (1966).

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