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