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Biography

Charles Lane, a prolific character actor, sold insurance for a living until his friend, actor Irving Pichel, urged him to try acting. The two…more

Born

1/26/1905, San Francisco, California, USA

Died

7/9/2007

Birth Name

Charles Gerstle Levison

Gender

Male

Credits

Star (3)

Role
- Karen (1975)
  Dale Busch
  - S 1: Ep 13 Dena Might
    5/8/75
  - S 1: Ep 12 The Karen Report
    5/1/75
  - S 1: Ep 11 A Day in the Life
    4/17/75
  - S 1: Ep 10 Capitol Capers
    4/10/75
  - S 1: Ep 9 What Are Friends For?
    4/3/75
  - + 6 More Credits
- The Pruitts of Southampton
  Maxwell
  - S 1: Ep 30 The House is Not a Zoo
    4/7/67
  - S 1: Ep 29 Phyllis the Beauty Queen
    3/31/67
  - S 1: Ep 28 Krump, the Playboy
    3/24/67
  - S 1: Ep 26 Goddess of Love
    3/10/67
  - S 1: Ep 25 Marry a Million
    3/3/67
  - + 24 More Credits
- Dear Phoebe
  Mr. Fosdick
  - S 1: Ep 31 How's Your Horoscope?
    4/8/55
  - S 1: Ep 30 Fire the Boss
    4/1/55
  - S 1: Ep 29 Legal and Tender
    3/25/55
  - S 1: Ep 28 A Face for Phoebe
    3/18/55
  - S 1: Ep 27 Mr. Fosdick Steps Out
    3/11/55
  - + 25 More Credits
Recurring Role (7)

Role
- Soap
  Judge Anthony Petrillo
  - S 2: Ep 1 Episode 26
    9/14/78
  - S 1: Ep 25 Episode 25
    3/28/78
  - S 1: Ep 24 Episode 24
    3/21/78
  - S 1: Ep 23 Episode 23
    3/14/78
  - S 1: Ep 22 Episode 22
    2/28/78
  - + 2 More Credits
- The Beverly Hillbillies
  Foster Phinney
  - S 9: Ep 23 The Clampetts Meet Robert Audubon Getty
    3/16/71
  - S 9: Ep 22 Love Finds Jane Hathaway
    3/9/71
  - S 9: Ep 20 Elly, the Working Girl
    2/23/71
  - S 9: Ep 18 The Palace of Clampett San
    2/9/71
  - S 9: Ep 17 The Teahouse of Jed Clampett
    2/2/71
- Petticoat Junction
  Homer Bedloe
  - S 6: Ep 12 A Cake from Granny
    12/21/68
  - S 5: Ep 27 Cannonball for Sale
    3/9/68
  - S 5: Ep 13 A Horse On You, Mr. Bedloe
    12/2/67
  - S 4: Ep 15 The Rise and Fall of a Tycoon
    1/3/67
  - S 4: Ep 13 The Santa Claus Special
    12/20/66
  - + 19 More Credits
- The Lucy Show
  Mr. Barnsdahl
  - S 1: Ep 10 Vivian Sues Lucy
    12/3/62
  - S 1: Ep 5 Lucy Buys a Sheep
    10/29/62
  - S 1: Ep 4 Lucy Misplaces $2,000
    10/22/62
- The Lucy Show
  Mr. Barnsdahl (1962-1963)
  - S 1: Ep 7 Lucy Is a Kangaroo for a Day
    11/12/62
- Dennis the Menace
  Mr. Finch
  - S 4: Ep 7 The New Principal
    11/11/62
  - S 3: Ep 37 Community Picnic
    6/24/62
  - S 3: Ep 7 The Fifty-Thousandth Customer
    11/12/61
  - S 2: Ep 24 Dennis and the Fishing Rod
    3/19/61
  - S 2: Ep 23 The Going Away Gift
    3/12/61
  - + 1 More Credits
- The Real McCoys
  Harry Poulson
  - S 1: Ep 25 Grampa's Birthday
    3/20/58
  - S 1: Ep 2 The Egg War
    10/10/57
Guest Star (104)

Role
- The Today Show
  Himself
  - S 54: Ep 38 February 23, 2005
    2/23/05
- Shannon's Deal
  Guest Star
  - S 2: Ep 2 Greed
    4/9/91
- Dark Shadows
  Antiques Dealer
  - S 1: Ep 6 Episode Six
    2/1/91
- Dark Shadows
  Antique Dealer
  - S 1: Ep 3 Episode Three
    1/14/91
- L.A. Law
  Walter Graf
  - S 3: Ep 14 Leave It to Geezer
    3/30/89
- St. Elsewhere
  Richard Welty
  - S 6: Ep 9 Weigh In, Way Out
    12/2/87
- Hunter
  Motel Owner
  - S 3: Ep 16 The Girl Next Door
    2/21/87
- Otherworld
  Mr. Velcrows Widley
  - S 1: Ep 5 Village of the Motorpigs
    2/23/85
- The Winds of War
  Adm. William Standley
  - S 1: Ep 7 Into the Maelstrom - Part 7
    2/13/83
- Little House on the Prairie
  Jess Moffet
  - S 9: Ep 3 Welcome To Olesonville
    10/11/82
- Lou Grant
  Rupert Hume
  - S 4: Ep 11 Generations
    1/26/81
- Phyl & Mikhy
  Guest Star
- Mork & Mindy
  Judge Baker
  - S 2: Ep 22 Little Orphan Morkie
    2/7/80
- Lou Grant
  Mort Farber
  - S 3: Ep 7 Gambling
    11/5/79
- Maude
  Doc Prichard
  - S 5: Ep 16 Arthur's Crisis
    2/7/77
- Chico And The Man
  Cripps
  - S 3: Ep 10 Old is Gold
    12/17/76
- Family
  James Lawrence
  - S 1: Ep 5 Thursday's Child
    4/6/76
- Rhoda
  Mr. Fosner
  - S 1: Ep 10 The Honeymoon
    11/4/74
- Adam's Rib
  Commissioner
  - S 1: Ep 7 Katey at the Bat
    10/26/73
- The Girl with Something Extra
  Segram
  - S 1: Ep 1 Sally on My Mind
    9/14/73
- The Odd Couple
  Sid
  - S 3: Ep 22 Take My Furniture, Please
    3/9/73
- The Sandy Duncan Show
  Judge
  - S 1: Ep 5 Play It Again, Samuelson
    10/22/72
- Temperatures Rising
  Briggs
  - S 1: Ep 4 Ellen's Flip Side
    10/3/72
- Bewitched
  Mr. Roland
  - S 8: Ep 23 School Days, School Daze
    3/4/72
- Nanny and the Professor
  Ticket Seller
  - S 3: Ep 13 One For the Road
    12/6/71
- Bewitched
  Cushman
  - S 8: Ep 11 The Warlock in the Gray Flannel Suit
    12/1/71
- Bewitched
  Mr. Jameson
  - S 7: Ep 27 Laugh, Clown, Laugh
    4/15/71
- Bewitched
  Harmon
  - S 7: Ep 12 Samantha's Magic Potion
    12/17/70
- Bewitched
  Mr. Meiklejohn
  - S 6: Ep 30 Make Love, Not Hate
    4/16/70
- Nanny and the Professor
  Driving Inspector
  - S 1: Ep 7 Nanny on Wheels
    3/4/70
- The Doris Day Show
  Guest Star
  - S 2: Ep 15 Hot Dogs
    1/19/70
- The Debbie Reynolds Show
  Samson
  - S 1: Ep 17 Hurry For Our Side
    1/13/70
- The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
  Prof. Obispo
  - S 1: Ep 0 The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
- Bewitched
  Shotwell
  - S 6: Ep 13 You're So Agreeable
    12/11/69
- Disneyland
  Mr. Pfeiffer
  - S 16: Ep 2 My Dog, the Thief (1)
    9/21/69
- The Flying Nun
  Mr. O' Reilly
  - S 2: Ep 21 The Breakaway Monk
    3/6/69
- The Beverly Hillbillies
  Homer Bedloe
  - S 7: Ep 21 The Hired Gun
    2/19/69
- Green Acres
  Mr. Wilson
  - S 4: Ep 2 The Rummage Sale
    10/2/68
- Judd for the Defense
  Baliff
  - S 1: Ep 20 The Grand Old Man
    2/2/68
- Bewitched
  Mr. Mortimer
  - S 4: Ep 16 Humbug Not to Be Spoken Here
    12/21/67
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
  Charlie
  - S 4: Ep 12 The Prize Boat
    11/24/67
- The Wild Wild West (1969)
  Roger Creed
  - S 3: Ep 7 The Night of the Hangman
    10/20/67
- He & She
  Simpson
  - S 1: Ep 1 The Old Man and the She
    9/6/67
- Love On A Rooftop
  Bert Bennington
  - S 1: Ep 24 Low Calorie Love
    2/23/67
  - S 1: Ep 3 My Husband, the Knight
    9/20/66
- Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre
  Charles Eckhardt
  - S 4: Ep 7 Dear Deductible
    11/9/66
- F Troop
  Mr. McGuire
  - S 2: Ep 4 Reach for the Sky, Pardner
    9/29/66
- The Munsters
  Holmes
  - S 2: Ep 19 The Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World
    1/27/66
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies
  Dynamite Man
  - S 1: Ep 18 Say Uncle
    1/11/66
- Bewitched
  Ed Hotchkiss
  - S 2: Ep 14 Speak the Truth
    12/16/65
- Get Smart
  Uncle Abner
  - S 1: Ep 12 My Nephew the Spy
    12/4/65
- The Donna Reed Show
  Mr. Samson
  - S 8: Ep 10 The Big League Shock
    11/18/65
- The Farmer's Daughter
  Guest Star
  - S 3: Ep 8 Crisis at Crystal Springs
    11/12/65
- The Smothers Brothers Show
  Wiggins
  - S 1: Ep 3 A Boarding House is Not a Home
    10/1/65
- The Cara Williams Show
  McAvie
  - S 1: Ep 24 Variety is the Spice of Wife
    3/10/65
- Kentucky Jones
  Dr. Axby
  - S 1: Ep 19 The Big Speech
    2/20/65
- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
  Gen. Richards
  - S 1: Ep 6 Pay Day
    10/30/64
- The Bill Dana Show
  Doctor
  - S 2: Ep 1 Blood From Two Turnips (aka Blood For Two Turnips )
    9/20/64
- Temple Houston
  Amos Riggs
  - S 1: Ep 22 Last Full Moon
    2/27/64
  - S 1: Ep 16 Thy Name Is Woman
    1/9/64
- The Andy Griffith Show
  Mr. Frisby
  - S 4: Ep 15 Aunt Bee the Crusader
    1/20/64
- The Bill Dana Show
  Mr. Hanley
  - S 1: Ep 7 Honeymoon Suite
    11/10/63
- Burke's Law
  Dr. Lusk
  - S 1: Ep 4 Who Killed Harris Crown?
    10/11/63
- The Beverly Hillbillies
  Billy Hacker
  - S 1: Ep 24 Jed Becomes a Banker
    3/6/63
- The Real McCoys
  Man
  - S 6: Ep 19 Sir Fergus McCoy
    1/27/63
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  Caleb
  - S 1: Ep 17 The Resurrection of Winesap Corners
    1/26/63
- 77 Sunset Strip
  Henry Distal
  - S 5: Ep 14 The Tarnished Idol
    1/11/63
- McKeever and the Colonel
  Mayor
  - S 1: Ep 9 Blackwell's Stand
    11/25/62
- Mister Ed
  Charley Foster
  - S 3: Ep 7 Wilbur in the Lion's Den
    11/8/62
- The Lucy Show
  Mr. Barnsdahl
- The Bob Newhart Show (1961)
  Guest
  - S 1: Ep 33 Show No. 33
    6/13/62
- Lawman (1958)
  Morris Weeks
  - S 4: Ep 34 The Doctor
    5/6/62
- SurfSide 6
  Cyrus Radford
  - S 2: Ep 29 The Money Game
    4/9/62
- Maverick
  Proprietor
  - S 5: Ep 7 Mr. Muldoon's Partner
    2/11/62
- Pete and Gladys
  Mr. Slater
  - S 2: Ep 18 Garden Wedding
    1/22/62
- This Is The Life
  Guest Star
  - S 10: Ep 4 Unknown title
    9/24/61
- Guestward Ho!
  Mr. Langdon
  - S 1: Ep 27 The Hootens Build a Barbecue
    4/6/61
- The June Allyson Show
  Dr. Shelley
  - S 2: Ep 21 The Old Fashioned Way
    2/20/61
- Pete and Gladys
  Mr. Vincent
  - S 1: Ep 18 The House Next Door
    1/23/61
- The Untouchables
  Clerk at Alcatraz-uncredited
  - S 2: Ep 13 The Big Train (pt 2)
    1/12/61
- The Twilight Zone
  Mr. Peckinpaugh
  - S 1: Ep 33 Mr. Bevis
    6/3/60
- Alcoa Theatre
  Adam
  - S 3: Ep 15 Lady Bug
    12/21/59
- Make Room for Daddy
  Oliver Watkins
  - S 7: Ep 2 Rusty's Day in Court
    10/12/59
- Whirlybirds
  Lt. Fred Hughes
  - S 3: Ep 18 Bankrupt Alibi
    8/3/59
- How To Marry A Millionaire
  Mr Parkhurst (Wealthy Millionaire At The Stockholders Meeting)
  - S 2: Ep 5 The Three Stacked Stockholders
    6/25/59
- The Ann Sothern Show
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 14 Johnny Moves Up
    1/5/59
- The Millionaire
  Whipple
  - S 5: Ep 9 The Cat Story
    10/29/58
- The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
  Border Policeman
  - S 2: Ep 1 Lucy Goes to Mexico
    10/6/58
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
  US Customs Officer
  - S 1: Ep 1 Lucy Goes to Mexico
    10/6/58
- How To Marry A Millionaire
  Emil Quincy
  - S 1: Ep 35 The Truthivac
    7/3/58
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective
  Kevin Anders
  - S 2: Ep 20 One Foot in the Grave
    6/12/58
- Perry Mason
  Dr. Williams
  - S 1: Ep 31 The Case of the Fiery Fingers
    5/3/58
- The Lineup (1954)
  Gallagher
  - S 4: Ep 28 The Slowboat Murphy Case
    4/11/58
- The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
  Claims Clerk
  - S 1: Ep 3 Lucy Hunts Uranium
    1/3/58
- The Thin Man
  Harry
  - S 1: Ep 7 Acrostic Murder
    11/1/57
- On Trial
  Grayson
  - S 1: Ep 24 Alibi for Murder
    4/26/57
- The People's Choice
  Manager
  - S 2: Ep 27 Sock and Mandy, Paperhangers
    4/18/57
- Studio 57
  Henry
  - S 3: Ep 23 Stephen and Publius Syrus
    3/18/57
- Star Stage
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 21 Screen Credit
    1/27/56
- I Love Lucy
  Passport Officer
  - S 5: Ep 12 Staten Island Ferry
    1/2/56
- Screen Director's Playhouse
  Joseph P. Garrity
  - S 1: Ep 9 Tom and Jerry
    11/30/55
- The Jane Wyman Show
  Henry
  - S 1: Ep 7 Stephen and Publius Cyrus
    10/11/55
- The Millionaire
  George Probst
  - S 1: Ep 18 Millionaire Merle Roberts
    5/18/55
- I Love Lucy
  Andy Hickox
  - S 4: Ep 3 The Business Manager
    10/4/54
- I Love Lucy
  Casting Director
  - S 3: Ep 5 Lucy Tells the Truth
    11/9/53
- I Love Lucy
  Mr. Stanley
  - S 2: Ep 21 Lucy Goes to the Hospital
    1/19/53

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- Lane was one of last survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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- Lane was the father of actor Tom Lane.
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- Before becoming a actor, Lane was a insurance salesman.
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