Charles Lane

Charles Lane Biography

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. Lane appeared in many Frank Capra films, including You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Riding High (1950).

He was a favored supporting actor of Lucille Ball, who often used him as a no-nonsense authority figure and comedic foe of her scatterbrained TV character on her TV series I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour and The Lucy Show. His first film of more than 250 was as a hotel clerk in Smart Money (1931) starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney.

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Charles Lane Movies

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

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Charles Lane TV Shows

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Charles Lane Quotes

Concerns About Temporary Happiness and Health

Liz: You're worried.

Pete: [[dream; [forever] It's a wonderful ]. Can't last ].

Dr. Shapiro: It's too early for the chemotherapy to take affect.

Pete: The virus is bound to wear off sometime.

Liz: [[life] Of course it will, darling. But it's been more than a dream. It's been a new ] for us. And no matter what happens we've got to remember that and cling to it.

J. Gardner Monroe: [sarcastically] What did you put in that spray? Saccharine?

Liz: [[Ralph Waldo Emerson#Nature .281836.29|Someone once said; [stars] ] that if the ] came out only once in a thousand years men would look at them differently.

J. Gardner Monroe: Are you sure this the right channel? It sounds like a soap opera to me.

Liz: [[kindness; [laughter; [goodness; [humanity; [compassion; [love; [glory] We've been warmed by the glow of ] and ], touched by ] and ]. We've felt ] and ]. We've finally seen the ] of the stars.

J. Gardner Monroe: [derisively] And love is what makes the world go round. Roses are red, violets are blue. If my wife talked to me like that, I'd smack her in the mouth.

Dr. Witter: [[healthy; [cynicism] It's sentimental, yes, but that's ]. Unfortunately most people repress tenderness, suffocate it with ] and …

J. Gardner Monroe: [[laughter; [competition; [survival; [brains; [California; notices Murgatroyd] Let me tell you something. Our glorious and dynamic country did not get that way by the glow of kindness and ], no sir, it was built by ], the ] of the fittest. During the gold rush men beat each others ] out with pickaxes, and because of that, the great state of ] was born. What is wrong with you?

Murgatroyd: [the rest of the room watches the monitor] Oh, oh. I was just trying to see, It's getting interesting. If they had a series like this on TV, wow.

J. Gardner Monroe: Shapiro, I thought you said that stuff was going to make him mean and irritable.

Dr. Shapiro: Well, a situation such as this, spray or no spray, you can hardly expect him to kick her out of bed.