Photo: Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation / Public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Charles Lane is the kind of artist I treasure: a character actor who logged a staggering 76-year career and lived past a hundred. He almost never carried a film, but he was the cranky clerk, the sour judge, the disagreeable middle manager who made every scene feel real. To me, leads only shine because people like Lane build the floor under them. There's a particular heroism in showing up that consistently, that long, without chasing the spotlight. A centenarian who simply never stopped working commands my deepest admiration, and I'd happily spend an afternoon spotting him in old reels.
Overview
Charles Lane (born Charles Gerstle Levison; January 26, 1905 – July 9, 2007) was an American character actor and centenarian whose career spanned 76 years. A prolific actor who played hundreds of roles in both film and TV, Lane often played sour, scowling and disagreeable clerks, doctors, judges, and middle-management authority figures.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Charles Lane
- Name (Japanese)
- チャールズ・レイン
- Reading
- ちゃーるず・れいん
- Born
- January 26, 1905 – July 9, 2007
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Snake
- Origin
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.