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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.
Jul 11, 2007 · Charles Gerstle Levison was born on Jan. 26, 1905, in San Francisco. He was working as an insurance salesman when a friend persuaded him to try his hand at acting.
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.
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.
Jul 9, 2007 · From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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...
Actor. 26 January 1905 to 8 July 2007. A prolific character actor who appeared in an estimated 250 movies, Lane's career spanned eight decades. From Blondie Johnson (1933) to the narration for The Night Before Christmas (2006), his credits include many classics, Capra's You Can't Take It With You (1938) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946) among them.
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 76 years.
Sep 27, 2007 · Obituary. Charles Lane. Ronald Bergan. Wed 26 Sep 2007 20.43 EDT. Charles Lane, who has died aged 102, was probably the most celebrated of "I-know-the-face-but-not-the-name" actors. Most...
