Charles Lane

Charles Lane

Born: January 25, 1869
Died: October 17, 1945
in Madison, Illinois, USA
Charles Willis Lane (January 25, 1869–October 17, 1945) was an American stage and film actor, active in movies from 1914 to 1929. Like many film performers born before 1900, Lane had extensive prior Broadway stage or regional theatrical experience.

Lane can be seen in silent films usually as a silver-haired other man or confidant. Two of his best-known roles are Dr. Lanyon in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) and Dr. Angus McPhail in Sadie Thompson (1928).

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Broadway Scandals
Title: Broadway Scandals
Character: Manager
Released: November 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new life together as man and wife.
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Saturday's Children
Title: Saturday's Children
Character: Mr. Henry Halevy
Released: March 10, 1929
Type: Movie
Youthful sweethearts, Bobbi and Jim, plan to get married but Bobbi wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobbie who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.
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The Canary Murder Case
Title: The Canary Murder Case
Character: Charles Spottswoode
Released: February 16, 1929
Type: Movie
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer. Written by Tony Fontana
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Sadie Thompson
Title: Sadie Thompson
Character: Dr. Angus McPhail
Released: January 7, 1928
Type: Movie
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.
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Barbed Wire
Title: Barbed Wire
Character: Colonel Duval
Released: September 9, 1927
Type: Movie
During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
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Service for Ladies
Title: Service for Ladies
Character: Robert Foster, Elizabeth's father
Released: August 6, 1927
Type: Movie
Albert Leroux, headwaiter at an exclusive Paris hotel, falls hopelessly in love with Elizabeth Foster, an American heiress, though he is convinced that she will never admire a waiter.
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Married Alive
Title: Married Alive
Character: Mr. Fountain
Released: July 17, 1927
Type: Movie
James Duxbury (Lou Tellegen) is an exponent of polygamy, which may not be legal but certainly provides him with several evenings of entertainment. Professor Charles Orme (Matt Moore) falls in love with Duxbury's fourth wife Amy (Margaret Livingston). Things get dicey indeed as Orme tries to figure out whether Amy is still married to Duxbury or not -- in fact, Duxbury isn't sure either.
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The Whirlwind of Youth
Title: The Whirlwind of Youth
Character: Jim Hawthorne
Released: April 30, 1927
Type: Movie
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The Winning of Barbara Worth
Title: The Winning of Barbara Worth
Character: Jefferson Worth
Released: October 14, 1926
Type: Movie
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
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Marriage License?
Title: Marriage License?
Character: Sir John
Released: September 5, 1926
Type: Movie
1926 picture starring Alma Rubens and Walter McGrail.
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Padlocked
Title: Padlocked
Character: Monte Hermann
Released: August 2, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Blind Goddess
Title: The Blind Goddess
Character: Judge
Released: April 4, 1926
Type: Movie
Even though Big Bill Devens is a powerful politician, he still sticks to his working man's roots. His wife walked out on him 20 years before and his daughter, Moira, believes she is dead. Moira falls in love with Hugh Dillon, a handsome young attorney, and Devens gets him a job in the district attorney's office. One night, Devens' wife, now an old, decrepit woman known as Aileen Clayton, returns to ask forgiveness.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Sir Jasper Sturdee
Released: January 17, 1926
Type: Movie
1926 film starring Jacqueline Logan, Lou Tellegen, and Walter Pidgeon.
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Stella Dallas
Title: Stella Dallas
Character: Stephen Dallas, Sr.
Released: November 16, 1925
Type: Movie
An eccentric lower class woman struggles to gain respect in high society after marrying a wealthy man, and the problem gets worse when their daughter starts growing up.
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The Dark Angel
Title: The Dark Angel
Character: Sir Hubert Vane
Released: September 27, 1925
Type: Movie
Alan Trent (Ronald Colman), his cousin Gerald Shannon (Wyndham Standing) and neighbor Kitty Vane (Vilma Bánky) have grown up together, as close playmates When World War I starts, both Alan and Gerald enlist in the British Army as officiers, and Kitty sees them off to war. Many months later, Alan and Gerald come back to Kitty, on a short furlow. Alan and Kitty reveal their love for each other. Gerald (who's in love with Kitty, too) congratulates his friends. But before Kitty and Alan can arrange to be married the next day, the furlow is cut short and both men head back to the front lines. Weeks later, Gerald will not give Alan leave to marry Kitty. Still arguing, both men volunteer for a reconiscience raid into enemy lines, where a grenade goes off near Alan and appears to kill him. Gerald and Kitty mourn Alan's death. After the war ends, Gerald and Kitty become engaged to be married.
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The Marriage Whirl
Title: The Marriage Whirl
Released: July 19, 1925
Type: Movie
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Romola
Title: Romola
Character: Baldassar Calvo
Released: December 6, 1924
Type: Movie
In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
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The White Sister
Title: The White Sister
Character: Prince Chiaromonte
Released: September 5, 1923
Type: Movie
Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits everything herself, throwing Angela into poverty. Fortunately, Angela is engaged to marry dashing Captain Giovanni Severi - but he soon is captured by Arabs while on an expedition to Africa. Believing him dead, Angela, dedicating her life to his memory, becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and is returning to Italy. The dramatic climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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How Women Love
Title: How Women Love
Character: Ogden Ward
Released: October 15, 1922
Type: Movie
silent drama featuring Betty Blythe, Robert Frazer, and Gladys Hulette
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Broadway Rose
Title: Broadway Rose
Character: Peter Thompson
Released: September 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Rosalie Lawrence, a dancing star on Broadway, falls for rich Hugh Thompson. His parents disapprove and want him to marry Barbara Royce, so he and Rosalie marry secretly. However, Hugh isn't quite the man he seems, as Rosalie is soon to find out.
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Without Limit
Title: Without Limit
Character: Clement Palter
Released: March 20, 1921
Type: Movie
Robert Frazer and Anna Q. Nilsson star in this drama, based on Temple Dusk by Calvin Johnson. David Marlowe (Frazer), the son of a clergyman (Frank Currier), is seduced by the earthly delights of drinking and gambling. While intoxicated he proposes to Ember Edwards (Nilsson), and she accepts because he has told her he is rich and she is sick of her poverty-stricken life. At a gambling house run by Clement Palter (Charles Lane), David takes a 25 dollar check from Bunny Fish (Robert Schable), changes the amount to 2,500 dollars, and proceeds to lose the whole sum at faro.
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The Great Adventure
Title: The Great Adventure
Character: Charles Oxford
Released: January 6, 1921
Type: Movie
An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.
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The Restless Sex
Title: The Restless Sex
Character: John Cleland
Released: November 12, 1920
Type: Movie
A love triangle drama, based on a novel by Robert W. Chambers, who is better-known for weird fiction (which is not noticeable in this story.)
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The Branded Woman
Title: The Branded Woman
Character: Herbert Averill
Released: September 5, 1920
Type: Movie
A 1920 film directed by Albert Parker.
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Away Goes Prudence
Title: Away Goes Prudence
Character: Mr. Thorne
Released: July 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Prudence, a young society woman and aviatrix, is forbidden to continue flying by her fiancé Hewitt and her father. In defiance, she stages her own kidnapping, but Hewitt discovers the ruse and arranges a real abduction to teach her a lesson. His plan backfires, and the kidnappers rob him and capture Prudence. In order to save herself, Prudence pretends to join the gang.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Character: Dr. Richard Lanyon
Released: March 18, 1920
Type: Movie
A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
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Ruggles of Red Gap
Title: Ruggles of Red Gap
Character: Earl of Brinstead
Released: February 25, 1918
Type: Movie
Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a rough-and-ready westerner and taken to Red Gap ultimately to become its social mentor and chief caterer, and there is sheer delight in the story of how the Earl, brought over to save his younger brother from the vampirish clutches of Klondike Kate, makes the lady his Countess and once more stands Red Gap upon its somewhat dizzy head.