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Dick Lane

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American actor and television announcer (1899-1982)

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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.

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Filmography 40

Hellzapoppin'1941 · ★ 7.2
Union Pacific1939 · ★ 6.7
The Shaggy D.A.1976 · ★ 5.8
Air Force1943 · ★ 6.5
Boom Town1940 · ★ 6.9
Arabian Nights1942 · ★ 6.0
Take Me Out to the Ball Game1949 · ★ 6.7
Wonder Man1945
Brother Orchid1940
Quicksand1950
Thank Your Lucky Stars1943
A-Haunting We Will Go1942
Gung Ho!1943
The Bullfighters1945
Ride 'Em Cowboy1941
Two O'Clock Courage1945
Here Come the Co-Eds1945
The Jackie Robinson Story1950
Mr. Moto in Danger Island1939
Kansas City Bomber1972
Charlie Chan in Honolulu1938
To the Shores of Tripoli1942
The Saint in New York1938
It Ain't Hay1943
The Return of the Whistler1948
Don't Be a Sucker!1943
Out of the Blue1947
Corvette K-2251943
Tenth Avenue Angel1948
The Big Wheel1949
I Wanted Wings1941
Nick Carter, Master Detective1939
Meet Boston Blackie1941
Brazil1944
One Mysterious Night1944
Alias Boston Blackie1942
The Amazing Mr. Williams1939
Mr. Winkle Goes to War1944
The Creeper1948
Wise Girl1937

150 credits on file

Awards 2

Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame
star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Connected to Dick 6

About this person

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.

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Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1899 to 1982 · aged 83
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