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Rusty Lane
Lane in an episode of One Step Beyond (1959)
Born
James Russell Lane

(1899-05-31)May 31, 1899
Chicago, U.S.
DiedOctober 10, 1986(1986-10-10) (aged 87)
Los Angeles, U.S.
Other namesJ. Russell Lane, Russell Lane
EducationUniversity of Illinois
Occupation(s)Actor, college professor
Years active1927–1942 (professor)
1943–1973 (actor)
Spouses
  • Laura Koch
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    (m. 1928; div. 1946)​
  • Sara M. Anderson
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    (m. 1947)​
Children5, including Sara Lane

Rusty Lane (born James Russell Lane; May 31, 1899 – October 10, 1986),[1] was a college professor who in his forties left academia to become a professional actor. He appeared in several Broadway productions during the 1940s and 1950s, including three years as an original cast member for Mister Roberts.[2] He was in the original cast for another Tony award-winning play, The Desperate Hours.[3] Lane also took up screen acting, performing in 21 films and making hundreds of televisions appearances from 1950 up through 1973, including as the star of the TV series Crime with Father,[4] and as a regular cast member of the daytime serial The Clear Horizon.[5]

Early life

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James Russell Lane was born in Chicago, Illinois, the younger of two children for Mack M. Lane, a school teacher and principal, and Cora Barr Lane.[6][7] As a young man he used his middle name in preference to his first, but otherwise was known by his nickname "Rusty". Later, as a teacher and professor he used "J. Russell Lane" for formal situations.

By age 17, his family had moved to suburban Crete, Illinois, from where Lane enlisted in the U.S. Army on July 17, 1917.[8][9] Sent for training with the Illinois National Guard at Champaign, Illinois,[10] he was assigned to the US 124th Field Artillery Regiment.[11] By October, his regiment had moved to Camp Logan in Houston, Texas.[11] He received a medical discharge on December 24, 1917,[9] due to a foot injury.[12] He then worked as a teacher in Pisgah, Iowa.[13]

College

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Lane was a student at the University of Illinois from 1922[14] thru 1926 when he graduated.[15] He played football his first two years under coach Bob Zuppke, was a member of the 1923 championship team with Red Grange, but lost part of that season due to academic probation.[16] His later college years were focused on theater and public speaking under the mentorship of Professor W. C. Troutman. He was elected president of the college dramatic society,[17] took part in plays,[18] and in his senior year represented Illinois at an interstate public speaking competition held in Madison, Wisconsin.[19]

Academic career

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After graduation Lane took up a teaching position in Iowa City, Iowa.[20] Lane taught public speaking at Iowa City High School, served as its dramatics director, and also took part in theater productions at the University of Iowa.[21][22] After one year he left to take up a position at La Crosse State Teachers College (now the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse).[23] He spent two years there, teaching public speaking and staging college plays, then was selected by his former college mentor, W. C. Troutman, who was now at the University of Wisconsin, to be business manager for the university theater in Madison.[24]

Lane would spend nearly fourteen years at the University of Wisconsin, managing the university theater and teaching public speaking. During this time he brought many top stage stars to the university for performances, and helped develop some future stars (Don Ameche, Tom Ewell, Uta Hagen, Don Fellows, Cy Howard) as well.[25] He also oversaw the opening of the new Wisconsin Union Theater, at which in April 1942, Knickerbocker Holiday, the one hundredth production of his college directing career was staged.[26] Lane resigned his position the same month.[27] After several months doing radio and stage work in New York City, he took a position with the American Red Cross, producing entertainment for servicemen in England.[12]

East Coast career

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Stage work

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While in London, Lane persuaded playwright Maxwell Anderson to allow the US Army to stage his play The Eve of St. Mark as a non-profit production.[28] Lane supervised the production, which was mounted in the Scala Theatre and featured American soldiers and Red Cross workers in the cast.[29] Lane returned to New York to direct Anderson's new play Storm Operation.[30] Rehearsals began in November; by December 13, 1943, the play had its first tryout in Baltimore, followed by a week in Pittsburgh.[31] However, in between tryouts Lane was replaced as director.[31] Lane then went into the cast of Decision by Edward Chodorov, which had its first tryout on January 21, 1944, at the Wilmington, Delaware Playhouse.[32] It premiered at the Belasco Theatre on February 2, 1944, with Lane drawing mild praise for his supporting role from The New York Times.[33] John Chapman of the New York Daily News was more generous, writing: "Rusty Lane, a drama professor and director, makes his acting debut in the role of a lawyer, and proves that self-taught or not, he is well taught".[34]

Decision ran until June 17, 1944,[35] after which Lane went into the cast of Lower North by Martin Bidwell.[36] A weak war training comedy drama,[36] it closed after just nine days.[37] Lane was then cast in his first screen role, Now It Can Be Told, a movie being made in New York by Louis de Rochemont for 20th Century-Fox.[38] The film was released as The House on 92nd Street in late 1945 to generally good reviews.[39] In May 1945 Lane was hired by the USO to produce and direct stage plays that its various entertainment troupes could take to overseas bases.[40] During the next year he would craft five productions of popular plays for USO companies.[40]

Lane next performed in Bathsheba by Jacques Deval, which opened March 26, 1947 and starred James Mason in his Broadway debut.[41] Lane portrayed Joab, for which he received mild commendation from the Daily News critic, who was a bit hard on the two leads, James Mason and Pamela Kellino.[41] The Brooklyn Daily Eagle said Deval's characters "seem to have gotten into his play simply because some clothes had come from a costumer's and needed men and women to fill them".[42] The play closed on April 19, 1947.[43] Two years later Lane told Earl Wilson "Oooh, what a stinker that one was!"[25]

The Experimental Theatre presented Bertolt Brecht's Galileo in a limited engagement of six performances from December 7 through December 14, 1947.[44] The play was translated by Charles Laughton, who would also star as the Italian astronomer.[44] Lane was part of a supporting cast that included Joan McCracken, Wesley Addy, and John Carradine, under the direction of Joseph Losey.[44]

Mister Roberts

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Main article: Mister Roberts (play)

After doing a trio of unsuccessful plays, Lane was cast in a critical and popular hit, the 1948 Tony Award winner Mister Roberts. This had an opening tryout at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut on January 23, 1948, where the reviewer predicted immediate success on Broadway and mentioned Lane favorably.[45] Another tryout was mounted at Philadelphia's Walnut Theatre,[46] before the play premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on February 18, 1948.[47]

Lane's character, Chief Johnson, was a supporting role, the first on stage each night.[48] However, he also understudied the lead role of "Doc", played by Robert Keith.[49] When Keith was in an auto accident during May 1948, Lane took over as Doc until Keith was able to return, while his own part was played by ensemble cast member Robert Keith Jr.[50] Besides Doc, Lane was also understudy for the role of the Captain.[51]

Though his evenings were committed to Mister Roberts, Lane was able to utilize his days to do a number of radio broadcasts for the anthology series Grand Central Station.[52][53] He also had time to perform in his second movie, Johnny One-Eye, for a segment filmed near Washington Square Park during late July 1949.[54] And he also moonlighted during June 1950 for his first known television performance on Hands of Destiny.[55]

After almost three years of playing Chief Johnson, Lane was promoted to the lead role of the Captain, taking over from William Harrigan, who left in November 1950 for an RKO movie contract.[56] Lane's name now appeared in the newspaper ads for the play along with the other three principals. He would play that part on tour even after the original Broadway production closed at the Alvin Theatre during January 1951 and formed a second road company.[fn 1][57] Lane's involvement with Mister Rogers finally came to end when the road company closed during May 1951. According to columnist Irvin Farman, Lane had played in "1,382 performances... He was the only member of the cast who played every Broadway and road tour performance, playing the chief 1,063 times, Doc 56 times, and the captain 263 times".[2]

Crime with Father

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Main article: Crime with Father

With no stage commitments at hand, Lane moved into television acting during 1951. Besides doing anthology shows, he also starred in his own mystery series, Crime with Father. This program, debuting on ABC television on August 31, 1951, had him as police homicide detective Jim Riland, a widower whose daughter Chris Riland (Peggy Lobin) often aided and complicated his investigations. According to columnist Terry Vernon, the show was filmed on actual streets without using stock clips or background projections, and showed the home life of the Rilands.[58] The New York Times review of the first episode said it was "...an obviously low-budgeted series, has a far better than average quality of production, even if the pistol shots still sound like cap pistols".[59]

The series lasted for 21 episodes, its final original broadcast coming on January 18, 1952. Because it was a filmed series, it played longer in some markets. After it ended, Lane went right back to doing anthology series.[60] He also did a recurring character called Porphory Pete on the family-orientated Captain Video and His Video Rangers. This was a live daily science-fiction program on the DuMont Television Network. Porphory Pete was a "raffish, interplanetary prospector" who was friends with Captain Video.[61] A newspaper article by Robert Downing, who played a villain, establishes that Lane's participation in the daily show may have lasted for weeks, however, very few actual episodes can be identified today.[61] Another television program for which Lane had at least a recurring, if not a regular role, was a short-lived NBC fantasy-adventure series, Operation Neptune.[62][63]

Return to stage

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Stockade was a grim play, "a sobering drama" according to Brooks Atkinson, taken from chapters of From Here to Eternity that were left out of the film version.[64] Atkinson praised the "vivid characterizations" of Lane and other actors, but Louis Sheaffer felt the play was "drab" and "uninspired",[65] while John Chapman called it "cheerless, sadistic and pointless".[66] The play flopped quickly at the Off Broadway President Theatre during early 1954, and Lane went on with doing anthology series on television.

However, the number of television episodes he did declined during the second half of 1954. The New York-based DuMont Television Network was failing, and the bulk of new production work was moving towards Hollywood. Lane, still resident in New York City, now filled the gaps between TV spots with lower-paying regional theater work.[67][68][69] Towards the end of December 1954 he was cast in what would be his final Broadway performance.[70]

The Desperate Hours

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The Desperate Hours was adapted by Joseph Hayes from his novel. The story concerns a suburban family of four whose quiet home is invaded by three escaped convicts. Staged by Robert Montgomery, it starred Karl Malden and Nancy Coleman as the parents, with Paul Newman as the convict leader.[71] The play had its first tryout at the Shubert Theater in New Haven, Connecticut on January 6, 1955.[72]

It then went to Locust Street Theatre in Philadelphia, on January 12, 1955,[73] for a highly praised three-week run.[74]

The play opened on February 10, 1955, at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway.[3] Lane's role in this play as a police lieutenant was smaller than his parts in Mister Roberts and Stockade, and reviewers mention him only in passing.[75] Besides an excellent cast, taut writing and staging, the production had an extraordinary set design by Howard Bay.[75]

After 212 performances, The Desperate Hours closed on Broadway on August 13, 1955, and a road company was sent out to the West Coast that included Lane and his wife Sara Anderson.[76] By late October 1955, Lane was back in New York for filming of The Harder They Fall,[77] but he returned to Los Angeles for Beyond a Reasonable Doubt in March 1956.[78]

West Coast career

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Films and television

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James Mason cast Lane for Bigger Than Life, which was filmed during May 1956 under the working title of One in a Million.[79] Going forward, all of Lane's screen work would be produced in Los Angeles.[fn 2] Lane made ten films during 1957–1958, but the quality of the pictures trailed off considerably in the latter year, and it would be 1963 before he made another. His television work expanded during that same period, with some guest star parts in narrative series. However, a great many of his small screen roles were character bits, often as a sheriff or judge or police detective.

The Clear Horizon

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Main article: The Clear Horizon

Lane was cast in a major role for the CBS daily daytime drama, The Clear Horizon, starting in July 1960.[80] This show followed an Army officer, Roy Selby (Ed Kemmer) and his wife Anne (Phyllis Avery) after his transfer to an Army space program test site near Cape Canaveral, Florida.[5] Third-billed Lane played Harry Moseby, a sergeant formerly under Selby's command and godfather to his young son. Moseby was on his second marriage, and his wife Frances (Eve McVeagh) was discovering she didn't care for Army life.[5] The show's creator and head writer, Manya Star, a former WAVES officer, was adamant the program was not a soap opera: "The emphasis is on the men, and the women know how to cope with things, instead of wringing their hands".[81] Among the show's secondary storylines was that of Corporal Davis (James Edwards), a Negro soldier who fights to get into Officer Candidate School, and the difficulty in finding housing for his wife after he does.[81] Another storyline concerned a Jewish army officer (Michael Fox) who was married to a French Catholic woman (Gerry Gaylor).[81]

The show was filmed, not broadcast live.[82] Six episodes were made each week, to build up a reserve for vacations.[82] During March 1961 CBS stopped broadcasting original episodes; however, stations behind the network feed used filmed copies to keep showing it into April. Columnist Allen Rich queried CBS VP for Daytime Programs Bruce Lansbury about the switch from soap operas like Clear Horizon and Full Circle to game shows.[83] Lansbury claimed the network was trying to provide entertainment instead of displaying other people's problems, and that reader mail favored the changes.[83] Less than a year later, a new CBS VP for Daytime Programs, Lawrence White, announced that The Clear Horizon would resume new episodes on February 26, 1962,[fn 3] citing popular demand for its return.[84][85]

The second life of The Clear Horizon lasted only until June 15, 1962, when it was dropped from the CBS daytime schedule in favor of a traditional soap opera, The Brighter Day, which was expanded from 15 minutes to a half-hour.[86] This was in spite of a letter-writing campaign to CBS by fans of The Clear Horizon.[86]

Later life

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Television continued to be Lane's main source of acting work during the 1960s. He made only five films during that decade, but performed in 64 television episodes, not even counting The Clear Horizon. He had a small recurring role as a court clerk on the legal drama Sam Benedict, and another as police Sgt. Murchison on 87th Precinct. Lane's performing work wound down to just five television episodes during the early 1970s. His last known acting job was for an episode of Gunsmoke in 1973.

Lane lived for another thirteen years after retiring.[1]

Personal life

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At age 43, Lane stood 5'8 1/2" (174 cm) tall, weighed 160 pounds (72.5 kg), and had gray eyes and brown hair.[87]

While teaching at Iowa City High School in 1926, Lane met Laura Koch, who was also a teacher there.[88] They were married on August 1, 1928, at her parents' home in St. Ansgar, Iowa.[89] During their fifteen years of marriage they had two daughters, Laura Lee Lane and Carol Anne Lane,[25] who were occasionally cast in University of Wisconsin stage productions.[90][91] They were divorced in May 1946.[92]

Columnist Whitney Bolton reported that whenever Lane found himself in a long-running stage production, he'd populate his theatre dressing room with wildlife.[93] During Mister Roberts it was cages of hamsters, while for The Desperate Hours he had a large aquarium stocked with Apistogramma from Venezuela.[93]

Lane had often cast two sisters from Madison named Gloria and Sara Anderson while staging plays at the university during 1940–1941.[94][91] Gloria stayed with the university, but Sara went on to New York where she found stage work on Broadway.[95] Several years later Lane also went to New York, and eventually met up with Sara Anderson again when both were in Storm Operation. Despite a twenty-year age difference, they married on May 21, 1947.[92] Their first child, Susan Russell Lane,[96] later became an actress under the stage name Sara Lane, though she was called "Russell" by her family.[97] They also had two other children together, Walter and Margarethe.[97] After their move to California, they lived at a cabin in Topanga Canyon, near the south entrance close to the ocean.[97]

Stage performances

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Listed by year of first performance, excluding student productions

Year Play Role Venue Notes/source
1943 The Eve of St. Mark (Producer) Scala Theatre Though Lane's role was producer, he is often credited with directing this production.[29]
1944 Decision Bennett Belasco Theatre
Ambassador Theatre 		Lane was an honest lawyer for a group battling racism in war factory work.[34]
Lower North Pratzell Belasco Theatre Lane played the CPO of a US Navy training unit in this flop.[36]
1947 Bathsheba Joab Ethel Barrymore Theatre [41]
Galileo Barbarini Maxine Elliott's Theatre This was a limited engagement of six performances with the actors working at scale.[44]
1948 Mister Roberts Chief Johnson Alvin Theatre Tony award winner for Best Play of 1948. Lane also played Doc and the Captain during the original run.[2]
1951 Mister Roberts The Captain Touring Company [2]
1953 Mister Roberts Doc Berkshire Playhouse One week run for the end of the Berkshire Theatre Festival.[98]
1954 Stockade Jack Molloy President Theatre Lane was an incarcerated soldier in this grim short-lived Off Broadway production.[64]
My Aunt Daisy Westport Country Playhouse Original play by Albert Halper and Joseph Schrank, starred Jo Van Fleet.[67]
Mister Roberts The Captain Paper Mill Playhouse Three week run; with Jeffrey Lynn, Daniel Keyes, Casey Walters, Sara Anderson.[68]
Sabrina Fair Paper Mill Playhouse Lane's wife Sara Anderson starred in this two-week run.[69]
1955 The Desperate Hours Lieutenant Carl Fredericks Ethel Barrymore Theatre Tony award winner for Best Play of 1955.[3]
The Desperate Hours Lieutenant Carl Fredericks Touring Company [76]

Radio performances

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Year Program Episode Notes/source
1948 Grand Central Station Deaf But Not Dumb Mystery set in Adirondacks lodge; with Cathleen Cordell, Donald Buka, Gregory Morton, and Will Geer[52]
Late Growth 10th Anniversary show; Sarah Fussell, E. G. Marshall, Joe Sweeney, and Will Geer.[53]
Identical Leon Janney and Lane are twin brothers, with Cathleen Cordell.[99]
1949 Grand Central Station No Time for Poetry [100]
Go by Rail, Stay Out of Jail With Staats Cotsworth, Doro Merande, Cathleen Cordell, Vaughn Taylor.[101]
1950 Grand Central Station A Promise to Cathy Foreign correspondent is tempted to crime. With John Beal, Howard Smith, Polly Rowles.[102]
The Heel With Staats Cotsworth, James Lanphier, Olga Fabien, Kathleen Comegys.[103]
Human Nature Story of summer romance stars Judy Parrish and Les Tremayne, with Helen Claire, Gavin Gordon, Joseph Boland.[104]
Solitaire With Don Hanmer, Mimi Strongin.[105]
1951 Grand Central Station Eyewitness With Dean Harens and Patricia Wheel.[106]
1953 Best Plays Mister Roberts NBC hour-long adaption starred Arthur Kennedy, Wendell Holmes, Leon Janney, with Lane reprising Chief Johnson.[107]
Grand Central Station The Search With Darren McGavin, Janet Ward, Ann Shoemaker.[108]
Grand Central Station Strange Legacy With Scott Forbes, Jean Gillespie.[109]

Filmography

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Film (by year of first release)

Year Title Role Notes/source
1945 The House on 92nd Street Admiral Filmed in New York under the working title Now It Can Be Told.[38][39]
1950 Johnny One-Eye Filmed in New York, Lane had a small uncredited bit in this while still playing in Mister Roberts.[54]
1951 Fourteen Hours Henry Hathaway hired over 300 actors to do small bits in this film.
1956 The Harder They Fall Danny McKeogh [77]
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt Judge [78]
Bigger Than Life[fn 4] Bob LaPorte [79]
1957 The Shadow on the Window Captain McQuade Filmed in July 1956, with a working title of The Missing Witness.[110]
Fury at Showdown Riley
Johnny Tremain Samuel Adams
Portland Exposé Tom Carmody
Appointment with a Shadow Pat O'Connell
1958 The Rawhide Trail Captain Filmed during October 1957, under the working title The Rawhide Breed.[111]
Damn Citizen Police Inspector Sweeney At least one newspaper account had the working title as Damned Citizen.[112]
High School Confidential Desk Sergeant
Party Girl Judge Davis
I Want to Live! Judge
1963 Spencer's Mountain Dean Buck
1964 The New Interns Dr. Morton Gardner
Fate Is the Hunter Supervisor
Youngblood Hawke Gus Adam
1967 Banning Guard

Television performances 1950–1959

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Listed in original broadcast order

Year Series Episode Role Notes/source
1950 Hands of Destiny "Hold Hands with the Devil" Lane's first known television appearance was with this anthology series.[55]
The Big Story Season 1 Episode 24: "Roy J, Battersby, New York Reporter"
1951 Shadow of the Cloak Season 1 Episode 2: "Mightier Than the Sword" Both Lane and his second wife Sara Anderson were in this episode.
Cameo Theatre Season 2 Episode 1: "Special Delivery"
Hands of Destiny Season 2 Episode 45: "The Squealer" With Charles Lewis, Joe Silver,[fn 5] and Sydma Scott.[113]
Big Town Season 1 Episode 42: "Neighborhood Story"
Suspense Season 3 Episode 48: "The Incident at Stony Point"[fn 6] With Donald Buka and Russell Hardie.[114]
Crime Photographer Season 1 Episode 14: "Sudden Death"
Somerset Maugham Theatre "The Great Man" Murray Matheson tangles with a jealous husband (Lane) while traveling in Peru.[115]
Crime with Father (All 21 episodes) Captain Jim Riland The only TV series in which Lane starred; with Peggy Lobbin as his daughter.
The Web Season 1 Episode 57: "According to Regulations" With Edward Binns and Harry Landers, the story of a policeman protecting an outlaw's innocent wife and son by violating departmental rules.
1952 The Web Season 2 Episode 19: "Honeymoon at the Grand" Stolen diamonds bring Lane, Billy Redfield, and Haila Stoddard together.[116]
Season 2 Episode 25: "The Phantom of the Bridge" With Bobby Santon and Paul Langton.[117]
Captain Video and His Video Rangers Season 3 Episode 4: "Birth of the Galaxy" Porphory Pete Lane had a recurring role on this family-orientated science fiction series.
(Episode dated 1952-03-31) Porphory Pete This was a live daily show whose episode names, if any, were seldom published.
(Episode dated 1952-06-23) Porphory Pete
The Big Story Season 3 Episode 34: "The Case of the Weeping Crocodile" Frank Winge Lane starred as a reporter who solves a murder mystery.[118]
Suspense Season 4 Episode 36: "The Debt" Jesse
Season 4 Episode 41: "Fifty Beautiful Girls" With Grace Kelly, Robert Keith Jr, Rod Steiger, and Joseph Anthony.[119]
Treasury Men in Action "The Case of the Sparkling Alibi" With Edward Binns and Joe Mantell.[120]
Police Story Season 1 Episode 18: "The Newark, New Jersey Case" Detective Sergeant Kinney Lane stars in this true crime dramatisation.[121][122]
Dark of Night Season 1 Episode 7: "Brewery"
The Adventures of Ellery Queen Season 3 Episode 5: "Death in the Sorority House" Sheriff
Television Playhouse "The Darkness Below" Drama of a coal mine cave-in starred Ralph Meeker, Mike Kellin, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, and Kim Stanley.[123]
1953 The Web Season 3 Episode 19: "Long Shot"
Season 4 Episode 6: "Strange Sanctuary" With E. G. Marshall, Jack Warden, and Marion Nobel.[124]
Season 4 Episode 15: "The Blue Glass Bottle" With Virginia Gilmore and Bill Sharon.[125]
The Big Story Joseph O. Haff New York Times reporter (Lane) clears man of forgery charge.[126]
You Are There Season 1 Episode 10: "The Conquest of Mexico (1519)" Captain de Olid
Season 1 Episode 13: "The Signing of the Declaration of Independence (1776)" Samuel Adams
Eye Witness Season 1 Episode 6: "The Righteous" Story of a lynch mob, with Henry Jones and Barbara Joyce.[127]
Jimmy Hughes, Rookie Cop Premiere Inspector Ferguson With Wendy Drew.[128]
Operation Neptune (Unknown episodes) Admiral Bigelow NBC short-lived fantasy series, with Ted Griffin, Richard Holland, Harold Conklin, and Jim Boles.[62][63]
Danger "Windy" Youth lives in his own dream world; with Rod Steiger and Georgianna Johnson.[129]
The Revlon Mirror Theater Season 1 Episode 10: "One Summer's Rain" Franchot Tone is a playwright with only one long-ago success; with Joseph Anthony and Barbara Baxley.[130]
Circle Theatre Season 4 Episode 3: "A Story to Whisper" Cartoonist draws comic strip from the lives of real people; with Hildy Parks and Leslie Nielsen.[131]
Kraft Theatre Season 7 Episode 7: "Keep Our Honor Bright" Harvey Wilson Live NBC play, with Michael Higgins, James Dean, Addison Richards, and Joan Potter.[132]
The Man Behind the Badge Season 1 Episode 8: "The Nebraska Story" [133]
Danger Season 4 Episode 11: "The Man with the Gun" With William Prince and Norma Crane.[134]
Span of Time (TV Movie)
1954 Medallion Theatre Season 2 Episode 18: "The Magic Touch"
Inner Sanctum Season 1 Episode 1: "The Stranger" Innkeeper
Season 1 Episode 11: "The Sound of Birds" Brule
Season 1 Episode 22: "The Silent Bride" Frisby
Season 1 Episode 39: "Blind Luck" Brenner
The Man Behind the Badge Season 1 Episode 16: "The Ohio State Prison Story" With Leslie Nielsen and Dick Moore.[135]
Season 1 Episode 35: "The Case of the Mutinous Crew" With Mario Gallo, James Bender, and Ernest Parmentier.[136]
The Web Season 4 Episode 19: "The Barrier"
Love Story Season 1 Episode 1: "Norma Loves Mike" Premiere episode for this anthology series; with Betty Lou Holland and Perry Fiske.[137]
The Steel Hour "The End of Paul Dane" Lane played a "broad-minded cop"; with Robert Preston, Theresa Wright, and Warren Stevens.[138]
The Adventures of Ellery Queen Season 4 Episode 5: "Buck Fever" Sheriff
The Marriage Season 1 Episode 1 (Premiere) Dr. Carnahan
Circle Theatre Season 5 Episode 4: "Explosion" Two brothers trapped in coal mine; with Joe Maross, Frank Overton, and Alfreda Wallace.[139]
1955 You Are There Season 3 Episode 20: "The Death of Stonewall Jackson (May 10, 1863)"
Season 3 Episode 21: "The First Flight of the Wright Brothers (December 17, 1903)" Samuel P. Langley Wilbur (James Gregory) and Orville Wright (William Prince) fly at Kitty Hawk.[140]
Appointment with Adventure Season 1 Episode 13: "The Bridge of the Devil" Wallace With Paul Newman, Nehemiah Persoff, and Monica Lewis. Aired June 26, 1955.
1956 Crusader Season 1 Episode 36: "The Secret" Captain Jethro
Season 2 Episode 12: "The Cop Killer" Commander Alfred Ryan
Soldiers of Fortune Season 2 Episode 2: "The Greater Magic" Professor Winsby Lowe
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 2 Episode 5: "None Are So Blind" Police Detective aired October 28, 1956
Zane Grey Theater Season 1 Episode 7: "Stage for Tucson" Marshal Tharpe
Studio 57 Season 3 Episode 11: "The Blue Wall" McCloud
1957 The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 2 Episode 8: "End of a Gun" Telegrapher
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 2 Episode 18: "The Manacled" Train Conductor aired January 27, 1957
Season 2 Episode 34: "Martha Mason, Movie Star" Police Detective aired May 19, 1957
Season 3 Episode 9: "The Young One" Sheriff Matt aired December 1, 1957
General Electric Theater Season 5 Episode 20: "No Skin Off Me" Jasper Jones
Tales of Wells Fargo Season 1 Episode 2: "The Hasty Gun" Marshal Tom Ogborn
State Trooper Season 1 Episode 23: "Death on the Rock" Walter Johnson
Whirlybirds Season 1 Episode 30: "Fury Canyon" Sheriff Bates
Climax! Season 3 Episode 45: "Necessary Evil"
Perry Mason Season 1 Episode 4: "The Case of the Drowning Duck" Chief Glass
1958 Sugarfoot Season 1 Episode 11: "Deadlock" Jed Botts
Climax! Season 4 Episode 17: "Four Hours in White" Luther Reeves Lane played father to Steve McQueen in this hospital drama.
Maverick Season 1 Episode 20: "The Savage Hills" Marshal
Whirlybirds Season 2 Episode 6: "Search for an Unknown Man" Sheriff
Mike Hammer Season 1 Episode 13: "Stay Out of Town" Sheriff Al Miller
M Squad Season 1 Episode 30: "The Fight" Mel Harmon
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 3 Episode 32: "Listen, Listen...!" Father Rafferty aired May 11, 1958
Suspicion Season 1 Episode 34: "Death Watch" Glen Squires
Have Gun – Will Travel Season 2 Episode 1: "The Manhunter" Judge
Lassie Season 5 Episode 6: "The Rocking Chair" Joe Bascom
The Restless Gun Season 2 Episode 5: "The Nowhere Kid" Josiah Stevens
Wanted Dead or Alive Season 1 Episode 9: "The Fourth Headstone" Sheriff Sam Gladstone
Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 7: "Heart of Darkness" Griggs
Man with a Camera Season 1 Episode 10: "Six Faces of Satan" Storekeeper
Tales of Wells Fargo Season 3 Episode 15: "The Happy Tree" Hank Benson
Lawman Season 1 Episode 13: "The Master" Cattleman Brady
The Veil Season 1 Episode 2: "Girl on the Road" Sheriff
1959 Perry Mason Season 2 Episode 14: "The Case of the Glittering Goldfish" Harry Tiller
Union Pacific Season 1 Episode 18: "Iron West" Borden
Buckskin Season 1 Episode 28: "Cousin Casey" Moose
Wagon Train Season 2 Episode 29: "The Clara Duncan Story" Ron Waldron [141]
The Real McCoys Season 2 Episode 33: "Insurance Policy" Mr. Simmons [142]
The Texan Season 1 Episode 34: "The Smiling Loser" W. J. Morgan
M Squad Season 2 Episode 35: "High School Bride" Jay McCandless
One Step Beyond Season 1 Episode 20: "Echo" Joe the Bartender
Schlitz Playhouse Season 8 Episode 16: "Hostage"
Tales of Wells Fargo Season 4 Episode 1: "Young Jim Hardie" Herman Jackson
Rescue 8 Season 2 Episode 5: "Dangerous Salvage" Jake Randall
Man with a Camera Season 2 Episode 3: "The Man Below" Chief of Police
Bourbon Street Beat Season 1 Episode 7: "Secret of Hyacinth Bayou" Pops Polybe [143]
Tightrope Season 1 Episode 10: "The Money Fight" Captain Ragland
Sugarfoot Season 3 Episode 8: "The Gaucho" Mike Travers
Special Agent 7 Season 1 Episode 16: "Bogus Bonds of Balaam"

Television performances 1960–1973

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Listed in original broadcast order

Year Series Episode Role Notes/source
1960 Bronco Season 2 Episode 10: "Masquerade" Luke Davis
The Alaskans Season 1 Episode 17: "The Long Pursuit" Doc Williams
The Deputy Season 1 Episode 23: "The Two Faces of Bob Claxton" Judge Jones
Overland Trail Season 1 Episode 6: "All the O'Mara's Horses" Rusty Ransom
The Detectives Season 1 Episode 24: "Little Girl Lost" Johnson
Peter Gunn Season 2 Episode 28: "Slight Touch of Homicide" Arthur Wilkie
The Twilight Zone Season 1 Episode 35: "The Mighty Casey" Commissioner
Bat Masterson Season 2 Episode 37: "Barbary Castle" Marshal
The Clear Horizon (See Notes) Sergeant Harry Moseby Daily weekday episodes from July 11, 1960, to March 10, 1961, likely with occasional breaks.[5]
Tate Season 1 Episode 12: "Quiet After the Storm" Jesse [144]
Harrigan and Son "Junior Joins the Law Firm" The Judge Premiere episode for this series.[145]
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 6 Episode 3: "Very Moral Theft" Mr. Ivers aired October 11, 1960
The Roaring 20's Season 1 Episode 1: "Burnett's Woman" Commissioner
One Step Beyond Season 3 Episode 5: "If You See Sally" Mr. Casey
The Real McCoys Season 4 Episode 9: "The Hermit" Sheriff
Shotgun Slade Season 1 Episode 18: "The Lady and the Piano" Doctor
1961 The Bob Cummings Show Season 1 Episode 1: "Executive Sweet"
87th Precinct Season 1 Episode 2: "Lady in Waiting" Sergeant Murchison
The Roaring 20's Season 2 Episode 5: "Another Time, Another War" Commissioner
Bonanza Season 3 Episode 8: "The Friendship" Warden
1962 87th Precinct Season 1 Episode 18: "Out of Order" The Desk Sergeant
Season 1 Episode 20: "A Bullet for Katie" Sergeant Murchison
Outlaws Season 2 Episode 16: "A Bit of Glory" Joe
Lassie Season 8 Episode 23: "The Odyssey Part 1" Mike Finch
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 7 Episode 20: "The Test" The Judge aired February 20, 1962
The Clear Horizon (See Notes) Sergeant Harry Moseby Daily weekday episodes from February 27, 1962, to June 15, 1962, likely with occasional breaks.[84]
Adventures in Paradise Season 3 Episode 25: "The Baby Sitters" Brady
The Tall Man Season 2 Episode 38: "Phoebe" Trager [146]
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Season 1 Episode 4: "I Saw the Whole Thing" Judge B. Martin aired October 11, 1962
Sam Benedict Season 1 Episode 8: "Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells" Court Clerk Kelly
Season 1 Episode 9: "Life Is a Lie, Love Is a Cheat" Court Clerk Kelly
Season 1 Episode 10: "The Bird of Warning" Court Clerk Kelly
Season 1 Episode 13: "Too Many Strangers" Court Clerk Kelly
77 Sunset Strip Season 5 Episode 12: "The Snow Job Caper" Police Chief Austin
1963 Sam Benedict Season 1 Episode 20: "Run Softly, Oh Softly" Court Clerk Kelly
The Virginian Season 1 Episode 23: "The Money Cage" Ezra Griswold
Wagon Train Season 6 Episode 24: "The Emmett Lawton Story" Del Masters
Death Valley Days Season 11 Episode 24: "Coffin for a Coward" Billy Johnson
Season 12 Episode 5: "Deadly Decision" Judge
My Three Sons Season 3 Episode 33: "Total Recall" Skipper Thompson
Arrest and Trial Season 1 Episode 4: "A Shield Is for Hiding Behind" Wright
Temple Houston Season 1 Episode 4: "Toll the Bell Slowly" Poag
Lassie Season 10 Episode 9: "Lassie and the Winged Enemy" Freight Train Conductor
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Season 2 Episode 9: "The Dividing Wall" Otto Brandt aired December 6, 1963
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre Season 1 Episode 11: "The Deep End" Doc Stacey
Hazel Season 3 Episode 18: "Scheherazade and Her Frying Pan: Part 1" Fisherman #1
Season 3 Episode 19: "Scheherazade and Her Frying Pan: Part 2" Fisherman #1
Mr. Novak Season 1 Episode 21: "I'm on the Outside" Lieutenant Comerford
Kraft Suspense Theatre Season 1 Episode 28: "A Cruel and Unusual Night" Warden
McHale's Navy Season 3 Episode 15: "Fuji's Big Romance" Chief Wabango
1965 Dr. Kildare Season 4 Episode 24: "All Brides Should Be Beautiful" Gus Markham
Gunsmoke Season 11 Episode 1: "Seven Hours to Dawn" Johnson
Peyton Place Season 2 Episode 22 (1965-11-01) Jim Fogerty Few actors in Hollywood escaped doing a bit part in this series.
Season 2 Episode 27 (1965-11-11) Jim Fogerty
The F.B.I. Season 1 Episode 14: "Pound of Flesh" Mayor Russell
1966 Branded Season 2 Episode 21: "Nice Day for a Hanging" Sheriff
The Fugitive Season 3 Episode 30: "Coralee" Frank Reynolds
Bonanza Season 8 Episode 11: "The Oath" Fielding
1967 Death Valley Days Season 15 Episode 18: "A Wrangler's Last Ride" Pa Roberts
The Big Valley Season 3 Episode 4: "Time After Midnight" Chairman Gaines
Bonanza Season 9 Episode 4: "Judgment at Olympus" Judge
Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 13: "To Love and Stand Mute" Dr. Davis
1968 Batman Season 3 Episode 17: "The Joke's on Catwoman" Judge
Death Valley Days Season 16 Episode 16: "Britta Goes Home" Preacher
The Virginian Season 6 Episode 26: "Seth" Sheriff Calder Lane's daughter Sara Lane was a regular cast member when he did this episode.[147]
Judd, for the Defense Season 2 Episode 1: "In a Puff of Smoke" Magistrate Edgar Brown
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color Season 15 Episode 2: "Boomerang, Dog of Many Talents: Part 1" F. M. Higbee
Season 15 Episode 3: "Boomerang, Dog of Many Talents: Part 2" F. M. Higbee
This Is the Life Old Smiley
1970 Gunsmoke Season 16 Episode 3: "Stark" Bo
1971 Dan August Season 1 Episode 25: "Prognosis: Homicide" Bearded Janitor
1972 Gunsmoke Season 17 Episode 23: "Alias Festus Haggen" Sheriff Buckley
The Mod Squad Season 5 Episode 3: "Yesterday's Ashes" The Seadog
1973 Gunsmoke Season 19 Episode 11: "The Hanging of Newly O'Brien" Grandpa

Notes

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  1. ^ There had been a road company of Mister Roberts for the previous eighteen months.
  2. ^ His last New York originated TV programs were broadcast in January 1955; his next television work, appearing during summer 1956, would be Hollywood produced.
  3. ^ The actual second debut was the following day, February 27, as it was pre-empted by a CBS news special on an event with John Glenn, who had returned from his orbital flight the week before.
  4. ^ Its working title was One in a Million
  5. ^ Silver had been another of Lane's students at Wisconsin.
  6. ^ IMDb has this as "The Incident at Story Point", while some contemporary newspaper listings had it as "The Incident at Stony Light".

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