Remembering Charles Lane and His 7 Decades of Obscurity
Mean, miserly, and miserable-looking, Charles Lane made a career playing memorable characters. Many times, those characters had no names. He was just Clerk, or Passerby. From this list of TV shows, movies and the associated role profession, which do you think he is best remembered for?
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- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsBarbara StanwyckGene RaymondRobert YoungThe ups and downs of newlyweds on a tight budget.
(CPR) Charles' Profession Role: Judge - DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsFrank McHughJoan BlondellGuy KibbeeA meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
(CPR) Cleaner - DirectorDavid ButlerStarsEddie CantorTony MartinRoland YoungA movie company is filming the "Arabian Nights" when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the rich and abolishes the army.
(CPR) Doctor - DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsPenny SingletonArthur LakeLarry SimmsDagwood loses his job on the eve of his and Blondie's fifth wedding anniversary.(CPR) Furniture Salesman
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsLoretta YoungRichard GreeneWalter BrennanRomeo and Juliet story set amidst horse racing in Kentucky. The family feud of lovers Jack and Sally goes back to the Civil War and is kept alive by her Uncle Peter.
(CPR) Auctioneer - DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsSonja HenieTyrone PowerRudy ValleeA studio publicist discovers a Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.
(CPR) Studio Chief - DirectorGregory La CavaStarsGinger RogersWalter ConnollyVerree TeasdaleFeeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress.
(CPR) Union Representative - DirectorFrank CapraStarsJames StewartJean ArthurClaude RainsA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.(CPR) Nosey
- DirectorElliott NugentStarsBob HopePaulette GoddardJohn BealWhen an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
(CPR) Reporter - DirectorHenry HathawayStarsTyrone PowerDorothy LamourEdward ArnoldThe son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.
(CPR) Assistant District Attorney - DirectorAlexander HallStarsLoretta YoungRay MillandReginald GardinerA best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.
(CPR) Reporter - DirectorRay McCareyStarsLucille BallJames EllisonRobert CooteThe marriage of college sweethearts Andrew and Clara is going stale after 5 years. Andrew is a hard worker at the firm, but it seems that all he does is work. When Mr. Battincourt from London must be entertained, Andrew gets stuck entertaining him--and Battincourt likes to party. Andrew is only doing his job, but Clara thinks differently and tosses him out. Andrew tries to reason with Clara, but Mother is against him. So Battincourt tries to get them back together by giving Clara the beauty treatment and having a costume party. But Mercedes Vasquez is an identical twin at the same party.
Lucy would later have Charles guest star on every TV program that she was involved in.
(CPR) Salesman - DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsBing CrosbyMary MartinBasil RathbonePopular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.This one is listed not because of the character profession. Characters name was,
Bernard Schwartz.
9 Years later in (1949) Bernard Schwartz, AKA Tony Curtis, would make his first movie! - DirectorFrank R. StrayerStarsPenny SingletonArthur LakeLarry SimmsThe Bumstead family is off to see relatives in the country when Blondie runs into Charlie and Millie, an eloping couple needing her help.(CPR) Train Conductor
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsEllen DrewJohn HowardAkim TamiroffWith thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.(CPR) Train Passenger
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsWallace BeeryMarjorie MainLeo CarrilloA grumpy old fisherman tries to avoid marriage, contend with a daughter he never knew he had and scuttle the attempts of landlubbers who want to rob him of his seagoing livelihood, while the locals try to reform him.Wallace Beery
(CPR) Auctioneer - DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsGroucho MarxChico MarxHarpo MarxA detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
(CPR) Finance Company Man - DirectorLeigh JasonStarsJoan BlondellJohn HowardBinnie BarnesTo save the reputation of the hotel where they are employed, sisters try to cover up a murder.
(CPR) Mortician - DirectorJames P. HoganStarsWilliam GarganMargaret LindsayCharley GrapewinTwo mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to the estate and finds one daughter already there and the second one expected. When she arrives, it is Ellery's secretary Nikki Porter posing as the daughter as Ellery had her intercept the real heiress after learning of a plot to swindle Rogers. The blackmailing seamen are killed at a waterfront café after getting the blackmail money, Rogers is suspected and Inspector Queen arrives to arrest him, but he is also found dead.(CPR) Coroner
- DirectorWilliam MorganStarsGene AutrySmiley BurnetteFay McKenzieSinging radio cowboy Gene helps out a former employer now in trouble with his failing rodeo.
(CPR) Newspaper Editor - DirectorRobert AldrichStarsRalph MeekerAlbert DekkerPaul StewartA doomed female hitchhiker pulls Mike Hammer into a deadly whirlpool of intrigue, revolving around a mysterious "great whatsit".(CPR) Doctor
- DirectorWilliam AsherStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceWhen Ricky and the Mertzes wager that Lucy can't go a full day without telling a lie, her husband and friends feel more than a bit stung by her unabashed honesty.(CPR) Casting Director
- DirectorJames V. KernStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazVivian VanceThe girls seek a cure for Fred's seasickness.(CPR) Passport Office Clerk
- DirectorJerry ThorpeStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazMaurice ChevalierAt San Diego, California, doing a USO show, Lucy and Mertz duo go to Mexico to shop. But return with an unexpected and surprise stowaway in the trunk which causes problems at the border. Celebrity, Maurice Chevalier.(CPR) Customs Officer
- DirectorJerry ThorpeStarsLucille BallDesi ArnazFred MacMurrayLucy, Ricky, Fred, Ethel and Fred MacMurray, are in a one-on-one race in a Las Vegas desert to go uranium hunting, but when they make a find all bets are off and it's a race to get back to the claims office, first.(CPR) Claims Clerk
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsShirley MacLainePeter UstinovRichard CrennaA former Notre Dame football star crash lands over a mythical Arabian country while on spy mission to the USSR. He is then forced by the football-obsessed king of that country to coach their football team .
(CPR) 'Strife' Magazine Editor - DirectorNorman TokarStarsDean JonesSuzanne PleshetteCharles RugglesThe Garrisons live with a Great Dane who thinks he's a dainty dachshund. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles.
(CPR) Judge - DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsBob HopePhyllis DillerJonathan WintersA bank teller is suspected of embezzlement and goes on the run with his seven children.
(CPR) Bank Examiner - CreatorPaul HenningStarsEdgar BuchananLinda HenningBea BenaderetThe misadventures of the family staff of The Shady Rest Hotel and their neighbors of Hooterville.I'd have some "Splainin to do Lucy"! if I did not put this in
Role: Homer Bedloe - CreatorPaul HenningStarsBuddy EbsenDonna DouglasIrene RyanA nouveau-riche hillbilly family moves to Beverly Hills and shakes up the privileged society with their hayseed ways.Ditto this too!!
Role: Foster Phinney - CreatorSusan HarrisStarsKatherine HelmondRod RoddyRichard MulliganThe soap-operish antics of two families: the Campbells and the Tates.Double Ditto!!
Role: Judge Petrillo - CreatorDan CurtisStarsBen CrossBarbara BlackburnJim FyfeVictoria Winters comes to Collinwood, an isolated mansion in Maine, to work as a governess, but soon finds herself drawn into a strange world of vampires, ghosts and curses.(CPR) Episode #1.6 (1991) ... Antique Dealer