Charles Lane

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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The Aristocats

7.3

It's a Wonderful Life

8.3

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

7.9

Arsenic and Old Lace

7.6

The Twilight Zone

8.4

Little House on the Prairie

7.9

Bewitched

7.9

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

7.0

The Munsters

7.9

You Can't Take It with You

7.5

Get Smart

7.9

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

7.5

I Love Lucy

7.9

Ball of Fire

7.4

42nd Street

6.9

The Music Man

7.1

The Ugly Dachshund

6.6

Call Northside 777

6.6

Gold Diggers of 1933

7.2

The Andy Griffith Show

7.6

Mork & Mindy

7.1

Perry Mason

7.7

The Beverly Hillbillies

6.8

The Untouchables

7.9

Mighty Joe Young

6.3

Twentieth Century

6.8

Nothing Sacred

6.2

City Girl

7.4

The Ghost & Mr. Chicken

6.7

Tarzan's New York Adventure

6.3

Teacher's Pet

6.8

Hunter

7.2

St. Elsewhere

5.5

Strange Invaders

4.8

The Cat and the Canary

7.0

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

7.1

The Invisible Woman

5.7

The Wild Wild West

7.6

The Sniper

6.6

L.A. Law

7.1

I Wake Up Screaming

6.8

Moonrise

6.2

The Big Store

6.2

Murphy's Romance

6.1

State of the Union

6.7

Green Acres

7.3

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

7.2

Sybil

7.4

The Gnome-Mobile

6.1

Strange Behavior

5.4

Soap

7.3

The Odd Couple

7.8

One Day at a Time

6.7

Flying Tigers

6.2

Mister Ed

6.7

Good Neighbor Sam

6.3

The Lucy Show

7.0

Blonde Crazy

7.0

The Winds of War

7.3

Petticoat Junction

5.8

Maverick

6.8

The Carpetbaggers

5.8

The Flying Nun

6.4

City for Conquest

6.8

Maude

6.8

Dennis the Menace

6.5

Backfire

5.8

Golden Boy

6.4

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

7.1

F Troop

6.1

Smart Money

6.9

Lou Grant

7.3

Today

5.5

Rhoda

6.2

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

4.5

Ride 'Em Cowboy

5.8

Pardon My Sarong

6.5

Employees' Entrance

6.3

Fifth Avenue Girl

7.0

Primrose Path

6.5

77 Sunset Strip

6.7

Edison, the Man

6.6

Broadway Bill

6.0

The Wheeler Dealers

6.2

Movie Movie

5.8

Private Detective 62

6.0

The Rookies

6.8

Get to Know Your Rabbit

5.1

Race Street

5.8

Johnny Apollo

6.8

The Milky Way

6.3

Bury Me Dead

4.8

The Rage of Paris

6.1

Here Comes the Groom

5.2

Mission to Moscow

5.2

Mysterious Intruder

5.8

Ali Baba Goes to Town

6.1

Miracles for Sale

6.4

Internes Can't Take Money

6.4

The Donna Reed Show

6.1

Blondie Johnson

6.1

Honey West

7.0

Union Depot

6.1

Papa's Delicate Condition

5.4

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

5.8

My Dog, the Thief

6.8

The Mating Game

5.9

Let Us Live

6.8

The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour

8.6

Chico and the Man

5.8

The Real McCoys

5.6

The Great Man's Lady

6.3

The Juggler

6.5

Kentucky

5.7

Central Airport

6.1

Burke's Law

6.0

Otherworld

5.0

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

5.9

Billie

5.0

Lady in a Jam

5.5

I Can Get It for You Wholesale

5.8

The Mouthpiece

5.9

The Road to Singapore

5.4

Nanny and the Professor

6.0

Lawman

5.4

Blessed Event

6.5

But Not for Me

6.0

Back Street

7.2

Roses Are Red

5.5

Blondie

7.1

The Doctor Takes a Wife

6.5

The Bowery

5.1

She Had to Say Yes

5.8

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

3.4

They All Kissed the Bride

5.8

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

6.6

The Doris Day Show

5.0

A Close Call for Boston Blackie

4.9

Birth of the Blues

5.3

Riding High

5.8

They All Come Out

5.6

It's a Date

6.4

Woman Wanted

6.3

Sunset Limousine

4.0

Joy of Living

5.7

The Lady Is Willing

6.5

Weekend Special

7.6

Topper

6.0

Three Loves Has Nancy

4.2

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

6.7

Lucky Night

6.6

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis

5.5

The Little Dragons

4.7

Miss Grant Takes Richmond

5.4

The Yellow Cab Man

6.3

Apartment for Peggy

7.8

Second Fiddle

4.5

Blondie Plays Cupid

6.7

Twenty Million Sweethearts

6.0

The Thin Man

7.6

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

5.5

Sealed Lips

5.8

36 Hours to Kill

5.3

We're on the Jury

5.8

My Woman

3.4

Just Before Dawn

6.2

We Who Are Young

5.8

Born Reckless

5.5

Friendly Enemies

5.8

Lux Video Theatre

6.0

Criminal Lawyer

5.9

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

5.8

Boy Slaves

6.8

The Second Face

6.8

The Birds and the Bees

6.8

When the Bough Breaks

5.5

Professor Beware

6.1

One Mile from Heaven

6.7

Acting on Impulse

3.5

You Can't Fool Your Wife

4.5

Smart Woman

5.5

Born to Sing

5.0

The House Across the Street

4.5

Appointment for Love

5.2

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

5.3

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

6.2

Whirlybirds

5.5

Intrigue

5.0

A Close Call for Ellery Queen

5.2

Ellery Queen, Master Detective

5.7

Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

5.3

Broadway

5.5

Sea Devils

5.7

Danger – Love at Work

7.3

Barnacle Bill

7.7

Manhattan Parade

2.0

Looking for Love

5.0

Remains to Be Seen

5.7

Dancing on a Dime

5.0

Three Girls About Town

5.3

Looking for Trouble

7.0

Rose of Washington Square

5.7

The Great Profile

6.3

The Show-Off

5.7

One More Spring

5.7

Living in a Big Way

5.0

Repent at Leisure

5.7

Broadway Thru a Keyhole

5.7

Sunday Punch

5.0

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

5.5

The Florentine Dagger

5.7

You're My Everything

3.3

Ginger

4.7

Sybil

7.5

A Wicked Woman

5.0

Grand Slam

3.7

The New Interns

5.0

Bachelor Father

6.0

The Millionaire

5.0

The DuPont Show with June Allyson

6.3

Screen Director's Playhouse

6.5

The Restless Gun

3.7

He & She

4.7

The Pruitts of Southampton

5.3

Out of the Storm

6.5

Honeymoon in Bali

6.2

Rhythm on the River

7.0

Obliging Young Lady

5.0

Two for Tonight

6.5

Always in Trouble

6.0

The Bands Plays On

8.5

News Is Made at Night

4.5

The Crooked Road

5.5

The Adventures of Frank Merriwell

4.0

What's Cookin'?

5.5

Buy Me That Town

6.0

About Face

5.5

Venus Makes Trouble

3.5

Queen of the Mob

4.5

Hitched

6.0

Surfside 6

5.0

The Debbie Reynolds Show

7.0

Pete and Gladys

6.5

Shannon's Deal

8.0

Judd for the Defense

7.5

The Bill Dana Show

6.0

The Wonderful World of Disney

8.0

The Gale Storm Show

5.5

The Gentleman from Nowhere

6.0

Sis Hopkins

6.0

Lady Luck

5.0

Beware Spooks!

7.0

Mr. Skitch

6.0

Television Spy

5.0

The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies

4.0

God Is My Partner

5.0

Here Comes the Band

5.0

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

6.0

A Gentleman at Heart

6.0

Big Business

5.0

The Invisible Informer

6.0

Home in Wyomin'

8.0

New York Town

10.0

The Mad Martindales

5.0

Hot Water

5.0

Bad Guy

6.0

The Adventures of Martin Eden

6.0

Love on a Rooftop

5.0

The Tab Hunter Show

5.0

Temperatures Rising

5.0

The Farmer's Daughter

5.0

Adam's Rib

5.0

Karen

5.0

Guestward, Ho!

4.0

The Ann Sothern Show

6.5

The People's Choice

4.0

The Cara Williams Show

5.0

The Bing Crosby Show

5.0

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

9.0

On Trial

5.0

Fibber McGee & Molly

5.0

Legends

5.0

Trapped by G-Men

0.0

Two-Fisted Gentleman

0.0

Louisiana

0.0

Cocoanut Grove

0.0

Inside Story

0.0

The Great Man's Whiskers

0.0

On Their Own

0.0

The Leather Pushers

0.0

Thru Different Eyes

0.0

Buck Benny Rides Again

0.0

Long Way Home

0.0

Let's Talk It Over

0.0

Easy to Take

0.0

I'll Fix It

0.0

The History of Hooterville

0.0

Rendezvous in Space

0.0

The Sandy Duncan Show

0.0

The New Bob Cummings Show

0.0

Wendy and Me

0.0

Willy

0.0

Star Stage

0.0

The Comedy Spot

0.0

The Family Holvak

0.0

Dear Phoebe

0.0

The Comedy Factory

0.0

TV Land Awards: A Celebration of Classic TV

0.0

Studio 57

0.0