Exit Charles Lane

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

The characters he played would be appalled at his lack of punctuality.

I always thought that when he went it would close the book on an era. Is anyone else prominent still around who was making movies in the early '30s?

Anita Page is still around (not well known today, but she was big in the late silent and up to mid-1930s), she worked mostly for MGM.

I'm sure there must be a few more, but Anita is the only name that comes immediately to mind. I don't know if there is a directory of residents at the Motion Picture Country Home in Woodland Hills, but there has to be a compatriot of Anita's there, too.

Charles Lane was quoted as being one of the first to join SAG, I believe he was actually card member #1. (I wonder what number SAG members there are now?)

Anyway, RIP Mr. Lane, you may have been typcast as old (and young) nasty coots, lawyers and sheriffs and whatnot, but you permeate 70 years of cinema and tv and you were good!