Highest rated movie: Sioux City Sue (1946)
Lowest rated movie: The Big Wheel (1949)
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Movies starring Richard Lane have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
Sioux City Sue - released in 1946 - is Richard Lane's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 2 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Richard Lane is The Big Wheel - released in 1949 - with a score of 42% based on 5 reviews.
Richard Lane (May 28, 1899 – September 5, 1982) was an American television announcer and actor who made his mark broadcasting wrestling and roller derby shows on KTLA-TV, mainly from the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Lane was born in 1899 in Rice Lake, Wisconsin to a farm family. Early in life he developed talents for reciting poetry and doing various song-and-dance acts.
By his teenage years, he was doing an "iron jaw" routine in circuses around Europe and worked as a drummer touring with a band in Australia. After the decline of vaudeville, Lane obtained extensive work in motion pictures and was best known at the time for playing Inspector John or William Faraday or Farraday (depending on the film) in all fourteen Boston Blackie Columbia Pictures features starring Chester Morris, starting with Meet Boston Blackie in 1941. During World War II, he appeared as emcee with USO troops entertaining G.I.s. His unit appeared at Fort MacArthur in September 1944. Lane also announced for the Jalopy Derby and Destruction Derby at Ascot Park, Gardena California.
Lane also played Faraday in the first radio version of Boston Blackie, which ran on NBC from June 23, 1944 to September 15, 1944.
Richard Lane has acted in films with Chester Morris, George E. Stone, James Flavin and Frank Sully.
Richard Lane has worked with these film directors: Lew Landers, D. Ross Lederman, H. Bruce Humberstone and Alfred E. Green.
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