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2. 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.
Jul 11, 2007 · Mr. Lane’s wife, the former Ruth Covell, whom he married in 1932, died in 2002. ... Charles Gerstle Levison was born on Jan. 26, 1905, in San Francisco. ... An obituary on Wednesday about the ...
Cinematically speaking, perhaps the good ones do die young, for the irascible Lane lived to be 102 years old. He died peacefully at his Brentwood, California home, outliving his wife of 71 years, former actress Ruth Covell, who died in 2002. A daughter, a son and a granddaughter all survived him. BornJanuary 26, 1905.
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Charles Lane. Actor: You Can't Take It with You. Mean, miserly and miserable-looking, they didn't come packaged with a more annoying and irksome bow than Charles Lane. Glimpsing even a bent smile from this unending sourpuss was extremely rare, unless one perhaps caught him in a moment of insidious glee after carrying out one of his many nefarious schemes. Certainly not a man's man on film or ...
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- July 9, 2007
- January 26, 1905
Jun 15, 2012 · Born Charles Levison in San Francisco in January, 1905 (at the time of his death the actor was one of the last remaining survivors of the City by the Bay’s infamous 1906 earthquake), Lane worked briefly as an insurance salesman in the 1920s and took small stage roles before a colleague, future film director Irving Pichel, convinced him to ...
Jul 11, 2007 · Charles Lane, the anonymous yet highly familiar character actor who specialized in playing humorous cranks in hundreds of film and television ... Lane was born Charles Levison on Jan. 26, 1905, in ...
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Jul 11, 2007 · 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. He was 102. Mr ...
