The Music Man
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Charles Lane (born Charles Gerstle Levison; January 26, 1905 – July 9, 2007) [1] was an American character actor and centenarian whose career spanned 76 years. A prolific actor who played hundreds of roles in both film and TV, Lane often played sour, scowling and disagreeable clerks, doctors, judges, and middle-management authority figures.
He was born Charles Gerstle Levison on January 26, 1905 in San Francisco and was actually one of the last survivors of that city's famous 1906 earthquake. He started out his working-class existence selling insurance but that soon changed.
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- San Francisco, California, USA
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- Santa Monica, California, USA
He was born Charles Gerstle Levison on January 26, 1905 in San Francisco and was actually one of the last survivors of that city's famous 1906 earthquake. He started out his working-class existence selling insurance but that soon changed.
- Actor, Soundtrack
- July 9, 2007
- January 26, 1905
Jul 11, 2007 · Charles Lane, a veteran character actor whose lean frame and stern features were familiar to millions of movie and television fans, most of whom, it is safe to say, never knew his name, died on...
Jul 9, 2007 · Charles Lane (born Charles Gerstle Levison; January 26, 1905 – July 9, 2007) was an American character actor and centenarian whose career spanned 77 years. Lane gave his last performance at the age of 101 as a narrator in 2006.
Jul 11, 2007 · Lane was born Charles Levison on Jan. 26, 1905, in San Francisco and started his working life in the insurance business. In 1928, he joined the company at the Pasadena Playhouse -- which...
Jul 11, 2007 · Claudia Luther. LOS ANGELES — Charles Lane, a character actor who specialized in playing humorous cranks in hundreds of film and television roles stretching back to the early 1930s, has died....
