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Charles Lane

Mean, miserly and miserable-looking, Charles Lane (born Charles Gerstle Levison) was a character actor whose career spanned 72 years, with roles in such film classics as It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Twentieth Century. He also had a recurring role as the scheming railroad man, Homer Bedloe, on the 1960s sitcom Petticoat Junction and appeared often on I Love Lucy. Lane continued to act into his 90s. One of the first to join the Screen Actors Guild, he was paid $35 a day, sometimes working in three or four pictures a day!


Aliases
  • Charlie Lane
  • Charles L. Lane
  • Charles Levinson
  • Charles Levison
English

The Aristocats

1970
as Georges Hautecour (voice)

It's a Wonderful Life

1946
as Real Estate Salesman

5th Ave Girl

1939
as Union Representative

Blondie Plays Cupid

1940
as Train Conductor

Buck Benny Rides Again

1940
as Charlie Graham

Cocoanut Grove

1938
as Weaver

The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926
as Jefferson Worth

The Mad Martindales

1942
as Virgil Hickling

Here Comes the Groom

1951
as Ralph Burchard

Edison, the Man

1940
as Second Lecturer

Movie Movie

1978
as Judge

The Crime of Dr. Forbes

1936
as Defense Attorney

News Is Made at Night

1939
as District Attorney Rufe Reynolds

Danger - Love at Work

1937
as Gilroy, an attorney

Easy to Take

1936
as Skip - Reporter

Without Limit

1921
as Clement Palter

On Their Own

1940
as Johnson

Beware Spooks!

1939
as Moore

Kentucky

1938
as Auctioneer

Stella Dallas

1925
as Stephen Dallas, Sr.

Back Street

1941
as Reporter for Associated News

I'll Fix It

1934
as Al Nathan (as Charles Levinson)

About Face

1942
as Rental Car Manager

Born to Sing

1942
as Johnny

The Great Profile

1940
as Director

Dancing on a Dime

1940
as Freeman Taylor

Posse

1993
as Weezie

Blondie

1938
as Furniture Salesman

The Restless Sex

1920
as John Cleland

Rendezvous in Space

1964
as Man-in-street interview

The Invisible Informer

1946
as Nick Steele

Marriage License?

1926
as Sir John

Strange Invaders

1983
as Prof. Hollister

Charlie McCarthy, Detective

1939
as Charlie's Doctor

Looking For Love

1964
as Screen test director

Two for Tonight

1935
as Writer

The Canary Murder Case

1929
as Charles Spottswoode

Sealed Lips

1942
as Attorney Emanuel 'Manny' T. Dixon

Miracles For Sale

1939
as Fleetwood Apartments Desk Clerk

Golden Boy

1939
as Reporter Drake

If Women Only Knew

1921
as Dr. John Strong

Repent at Leisure

1941
as Clarence Morgan

The House Across the Street

1949
as Apartment Manager

Broadway Rose

1922
as Peter Thompson

Broadway Scandals

1929
as Manager

Smoked Hams

1934
as Man in audience

Barbed Wire

1927
as Colonel Duval

Woman Wanted

1935
as Defense Attorney Herman

Married Alive

1927
as Mr. Fountain

Acting on Impulse

1993
as Bellhop

Strange Behavior

1981
as Donovan

Born Reckless

1937
as Barnes's lawyer

The Road to Singapore

1931
as Desk Clerk at Club

We Who Are Young

1940
as Perkins

Intrigue

1947
as Hotel Desk Clerk

But Not for Me

1959
as Al Atwood

Ball of Fire

1941
as Larsen

My Woman

1933
as Conn

Obliging Young Lady

1942
as Private Detective Smith

How Women Love

1922
as Ogden Ward

Rhythm on the River

1940
as Bernard Schwartz

The Second Face

1950
as Mr. Westcott

Manhattan Parade

1931
as Desk clerk

They All Come Out

1939
as Psychiatrist

Mission to Moscow

1943
as Man in Kitchenin Montage

God Is My Partner

1957
as Judge Warner

36 Hours to Kill

1936
as Lawyer Rickert

Home in Wyomin'

1942
as Newspaper Editor

The Mouthpiece

1932
as Hotel Desk Clerk

Broadway Thru a Keyhole

1933
as Columnist #2

Rookie Fireman

1950
as Loan Officer

Johnny Apollo

1940
as Assistant D.A.

Lucky Night

1939
as Carpenter

Professor Beware

1938
as Joe - Photographer

Arsenic and Old Lace

1944
as Reporter at Marriage License Office

Second Fiddle

1939
as Studio Chief

Looking for Trouble

1934
as Switchboard Operator

Sadie Thompson

1928
as Dr. Angus McPhail

Smart Money

1931
as Hotel Desk Clerk

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime

1941
as Dr. Prouty (coroner)

Bury Me Dead

1947
as Brighton

Boy Slaves

1939
as Albee

Murphy's Romance

1985
as Amos Abbott

Remains to Be Seen

1953
as Delapp (examiner)

The White Sister

1923
as Prince Chiaromonte

Smart Woman

1948
as Reporter

Good Neighbor Sam

1964
as Jack Bailey

The Juggler

1953
as Rosenberg

Venus Makes Trouble

1937
as District Attorney

42nd Street

1933
as Playwright of 'Pretty Lady'

The Branded Woman

1920
as Herbert Averill

Romola

1924
as Baldassar Calvo

The Sniper

1952
as Loud Drunk at Paper Doll Club

Let Us Live

1939
as Auto Salesman

The Gnome-Mobile

1967
as Dr. Scoggins

Roses Are Red

1947
as Lipton

Barnacle Bill

1941
as Auctioneer

I Wake Up Screaming

1941
as Keating- Florist

Inside Story

1939
as District Attorney

The Mating Game

1959
as Inspector general Bigelow

State of the Union

1948
as Blink Moran

Trapped by G-Men

1937
as Fingers

The Florentine Dagger

1935
as Man in Front Row (archive footage)

Broadway

1942
as Hungry Harry

Riding High

1950
as Erickson

The Music Man

1962
as Constable

The Leather Pushers

1940
as Henry 'Mitch' Mitchell

We're on the Jury

1937
as Horace Smith

True Identity

1991
as Duane

The Milky Way

1936
as Willard

Mr. Skitch

1933
as Hotel Clerk

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1920
as Dr. Richard Lanyon

Sunset Limousine

1983
as Reinhammer

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

1940
as Train Passenger

Lady Luck

1936
as Feinberg

Two-Fisted Gentleman

1936
as Joe Gordon

Tarzan's New York Adventure

1942
as Gould Beaton, Sargent's Lawyer

Out of the Storm

1948
as Mr. Evans

Mysterious Intruder

1946
as Detective Burns

Always in Trouble

1938
as Donald Gower

One More Spring

1935
as Representative

Buy Me That Town

1941
as J. Montague Gainsborough

Twentieth Century

1934
as Max Jacobs

Honeymoon in Bali

1939
as Photographer

In Old Chicago

1938
as Booking Agent (scenes deleted)

Billie

1965
as Coach Jones

Director

Movie Sidewalk Stories 1989
Movie True Identity 1991

Writer

Movie Sidewalk Stories 1989

Producer

Movie Sidewalk Stories 1989
Movie Alma's Rainbow 1994

Guest Star

Episode The Real McCoys
Sir Fergus McCoy
1963
Episode Burke's Law
Who Killed Harris Crown?
1963
Episode Get Smart
My Nephew the Spy
1965
Episode The Andy Griffith Show
Aunt Bee, the Crusader
1964
Episode Rhoda
The Honeymoon
1974
Episode Lawman
The Doctor
1962
Episode Little House on the Prairie
Welcome To Olesonville
1982
Episode Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
The Prize Boat
1967
Episode Bewitched
Samantha's Magic Potion
1970
Episode Richard Diamond, Private Detective
One Foot in the Grave
1958
Episode Nanny and the Professor
One For the Road
1971
Episode Dennis the Menace
The Going Away Gift
1961
Episode He & She
The Old Man and the She
1967
Episode Nanny and the Professor
Nanny on Wheels
1970
Episode The Wild Wild West
The Night of the Hangman
1967
Episode Bewitched
You're So Agreeable
1969
Episode Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Pay Day
1964
Episode The Real McCoys
The Egg War
1957
Episode Dennis the Menace
Dennis and the Fishing Rod
1961
Episode Mister Ed
Wilbur in the Lion's Den
1962
Episode Bewitched
Make Love, Not Hate
1970
Episode The Restless Gun
The Suffragette
1958
Episode Lou Grant
Gambling
1979
Episode SurfSide 6
The Money Game
1962
Episode Otherworld
Village of the Motorpigs
1985
Episode Bewitched
School Days, School Daze
1972
Episode Dennis the Menace
The Fifty-Thousandth Customer
1961
Episode Phyl & Mikhy
Episode Four
1980
Episode Hunter
The Girl Next Door
1987
Episode I Love Lucy
The Business Manager
1954
Episode Maude
Arthur's Crisis
1977
Episode The Munsters
The Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World
1966
Episode Bewitched
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1971
Episode I Love Lucy
Staten Island Ferry
1956
Episode Dennis the Menace
Alice's Birthday
1960
Episode Perry Mason
The Case of the Fiery Fingers
1958
Episode Bewitched
The Warlock in the Gray Flannel Suit
1971
Episode 77 Sunset Strip
The Tarnished Idol
1963
Episode Lou Grant
Generations
1981
Episode Maverick
Mr. Muldoon's Partner
1962
Episode St. Elsewhere
Weigh In, Way Out
1987
Episode The Smothers Brothers Show
A Boarding House is Not a Home
1965
Episode Bewitched
Speak the Truth
1965
Episode The Twilight Zone
Mr. Bevis
1960
Episode The Odd Couple
Take My Furniture, Please
1973
Episode The Lucy Show
Lucy Misplaces $2,000
1962
Episode Living Biblically
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness
2018
Episode Green Acres
The Rummage Sale
1968
Episode Dennis the Menace
The New Principal
1962
Episode F Troop
Reach for the Sky, Pardner
1966
Episode The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Pop Art Affair
1966
Episode The Lucy Show
Lucy Buys a Sheep
1962
Episode Bewitched
Humbug Not to Be Spoken Here
1967
Episode Saints and Sinners
A Taste of Evil
1962
Episode Mork & Mindy
Little Orphan Morkie
1980
Episode One Day at a Time
Julie's Job
1976
Episode L.A. Law
Leave It to Geezer
1989
Episode Dennis the Menace
Community Picnic
1962
Episode The Real McCoys
Once There was a Traveling Saleswoman
1958
Episode I Love Lucy
Lucy Goes to the Hospital
1953
Episode One Day at a Time
Honeymoon II
1983
Episode The Untouchables
The Big Train (2)
1961
Episode I Love Lucy
Lucy Tells the Truth
1953
Episode Pete and Gladys
The House Next Door
1961