# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lane-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:48:09.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lane-smith"
name: "Lane Smith"
slug: "lane-smith"
description: "Walter Lane Smith III was an American actor. His well-known roles included newspaper editor Perry White in the ABC series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, collaborator entrepreneur Nathan Bates in the 1984 NBC television series V, Mayor Bates in the film Red Dawn, Coach Jack Reilly in The Mighty Ducks, district attorney Jim Trotter in My Cousin Vinny, U.S. Congressman Dick Dodge in The Distinguished Gentleman, Grantland Rice in The Legend of Bagger Vance, and U.S. President Richard Nixon in The Final Days, for which he received a Golden Globe award nomination."
tagline: "American actor (1936-2005)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Lane_Smith%2C_actor.webp"
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: "1936-04-29"
deathDate: "2005-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.74
  momentum:             0.4111258865248227
  historical:           19.27644
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809031/"
    handle:    "nm0809031"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump