Dick Lane
American actor and television announcer (1899-1982)
Richard Lane, sometimes known as Dick Lane, was an American actor and television announcer/presenter. In movies, he played assured, fast-talking slickers: usually press agents, policemen and detectives, sometimes swindlers and frauds. He is perhaps best known to movie fans as "Inspector Farraday" in the Boston Blackie mystery-comedies. Lane also played Faraday in the first radio version of Boston Blackie, which ran on NBC from June 23, 1944 to September 15, 1944. Lane was an early arrival on television, first as a news reporter and then as a sports announcer, broadcasting wrestling and roller derby shows on KTLA-TV, mainly from the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Filmography in the catalog
Credited on 12 films (1937–1950) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 2 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).
| Year ▲ | Title | Creator | Length | Format | Color | Sound |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | THERE GOES MY GIRL. | RKO Radio Pictures Inc. | 8 reels | B&W | ||
| 1938 | Carefree | RKO Radio Pictures Inc. (Publisher) | 83 | 16mm | B&W | sound |
| 1939 | MUTINY ON THE BLACKHAWK. | Universal Pictures Co. Inc. | 8 reels | B&W | ||
| 1941 | A Girl, A Guy And A Gob. | Richard Wallace | 91 min. | B&W | ||
| 1942 | A - Haunting We Will Go | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp | 2600 | 16mm | B&W | sound |
| 1942 | DR. BROADWAY. | Paramount Pictures Inc. | 7 reels | B&W | ||
| 1942 | Time To Kill. | Herbert I. Leeds | 5 479 ft. | B&W | ||
| 1943 | Air Force | Howard Hawks | 1:24 | B&W | ||
| 1949 | Take Me Out to the Ball Game | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp | 1:33:00 | 16mm | Color | sound |
| 1949 | Take Me Out To The Ball Game. | Busby Berkeley | 93 min. | 35mm | Color | sound |
| 1950 | Take me out to the ball game | Busby Berkeley | 93 min | Color | ||
| 1950 | The Jackie Robinson Story | Alfred Edward Green | 76 min | 16mm | B&W | sound |