Dick Lane
American actor and television announcer (1899-1982) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 83
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.
Dick Lane is read about 20 times a day, in 15 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 23 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
The Shaggy D.A.Film, Roller Rink Announcer1972
Kansas City BomberFilm, Len1951
I Can Get It for You WholesaleFilm, Kelley1950
QuicksandFilm, Lt. Nelson1948
Tenth Avenue AngelFilm, Street Vendor1947
Out of the BlueFilm, Detective Noonan1945
Here Come the Co-EdsFilm, Near-Sighted Man at Ballroom1944
BrazilFilm, Edward Graham1943
Air ForceFilm, Maj. W.G. Roberts1942
A-Haunting We Will GoFilm, Phillips1940
Boom TownFilm, Assistant D.A.1939
Mr. Moto in Danger IslandFilm, Police Commissioner Gordon1938
Charlie Chan in HonoluluFilm, Joe Arnold1937
Wise GirlFilm, Detective1899Born28 May 1899People around Dick
Close ties
Christy Cabanne Directed Everybody's Doing It (1938)
H. Bruce Humberstone Directed Wonder Man and To the Shores of Tripoli
Walter Sande Also in Air Force and A-Haunting We Will Go
Edward Gargan Also in A-Haunting We Will Go and Carefree
Charles Pearce Coleman Also in Carefree and Radio City Revels
Sol M. Wurtzel Produced A-Haunting We Will Go and Time to Kill
Howard Hawks Directed Air Force and Corvette K-225
Anthony Mann Directed Dr. Broadway and Two O'Clock Courage
Chester Morris Also in Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941)
Alfred Edward Green Directed The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Lloyd Corrigan Also in Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
Walter Wanger Produced Arabian Nights and Gung Ho!
Emory Parnell Also in Union Pacific and Arabian Nights
Sol C. Siegel Produced Dr. Broadway (1942)
Benjamin Stoloff Produced Two O'Clock Courage (1945)
Herbert I. Leeds Directed Mr. Moto in Danger Island (1939)
Willie Best Also in Everybody's Doing It (1938)
Stan Laurel Directed The Bullfighters (1945)
Cecil Kellaway Also in It Ain't Hay and Everybody's Doing It
Franklin Pangborn Also in Carefree and Joy of Living
Fuzzy Knight Also in Joy of Living and Everybody's Doing It
Harry Woods Also in Union Pacific and Joy of Living
Andrew Tombes Also in Hellzapoppin' (1941)- Allan Scott Wrote Carefree, Joy of Living and Wise Girl
Known for
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Hellzapoppin' 1941
Boom Town 1940
Union Pacific 1939
Take Me Out to the Ball Game 1949
Air Force 1943
Filmography 40
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About this person
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.
