# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-lane
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:05:46.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-lane"
name: "Dick Lane"
slug: "dick-lane"
description: "Richard Lane, sometimes known as Dick Lane, was an American actor and television announcer/presenter. In movies, he played assured, fast-talking slickers: usually press agents, policemen and detectives, sometimes swindlers and frauds. He is perhaps best known to movie fans as \"Inspector Farraday\" in the Boston Blackie mystery-comedies. Lane also played Faraday in the first radio version of Boston Blackie, which ran on NBC from June 23, 1944 to September 15, 1944. Lane was an early arrival on television, first as a news reporter and then as a sports announcer, broadcasting wrestling and roller derby shows on KTLA-TV, mainly from the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles."
tagline: "American actor and television announcer (1899-1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Lane_in_The_Admiral_Was_a_Lady_(1950).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1899-05-28"
deathDate: "1982-09-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.63
  momentum:             0.7473309608540926
  historical:           13.55507733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0485518/"
    handle:    "nm0485518"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DA%86%D8%B1%DA%88_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86_(%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%86%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%81)"
    title: "رچرڈ لین (اعلان کنندہ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Lane_(omroeper)"
    title: "Dick Lane (omroeper)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ديك لين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "ديك لين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "دیک لین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lane_(Schauspieler)"
    title: "Richard Lane (Schauspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lane_(announcer)"
    title: "Richard Lane (announcer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "دیک لین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lane"
    title: "Richard Lane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Lane_(pemandu_acara)"
    title: "Dick Lane (pemandu acara)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3_(%E4%BF%B3%E5%84%AA)"
    title: "リチャード・レイン (俳優)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EC%B2%98%EB%93%9C_%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B8"
    title: "리처드 레인"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Lane_(aktor)"
    title: "Dick Lane (aktor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lane"
    title: "Richard Lane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Лейн, Ричард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3430954"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/111464"
    title: "Richard Lane"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump