Charles Lane

Charles Lane

January 26, 1905 · 121 years old

Charles Lane (born Charles Gerstle Levison; January 26, 1905 – July 9, 2007) was an American character actor and centenarian whose career spanned 77 years. Lane gave his last performance at the age of 101 as a narrator in 2006. Lane appeared in many Frank Capra films, including You Can't Take It Wit…

Known For

23 titles
1
The Music Man

The Music Man

1962 · 2h 31m · Movie

Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' band leader to raise money before he can skip town.

7.7
2
Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire

1941 · 1h 51m · Movie

A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.

7.7
3
Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

1933 · 1h 37m · Movie

A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play, but insists on remaining anonymous.

7.7
4
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken

1966 · 1h 30m · Movie

A timid typesetter hasn't a ghost of a chance of becoming a reporter--until he decides to solve a murder mystery and ends up spending a fright-filled night in a haunted house.

7.3
5
It Happened on Fifth Avenue

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

1947 · 1h 56m · Movie

Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.

7.6
6
Twentieth Century

Twentieth Century

1934 · 1h 31m · Movie

A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.

7.3
7
Murphy's Romance

Murphy's Romance

1985 · 1h 47m · Movie

Emma moves to a ranch with her son after a divorce and befriends the older Murphy, but things turn complicated when her ex shows up.

7.0
8
I Wake Up Screaming

I Wake Up Screaming

1941 · 1h 22m · Movie

Why is Inspector Ed Cornell trying to railroad Frankie Christopher for the murder of model Vicky Lynn?

7.2
9
Teacher's Pet

Teacher's Pet

1958 · 2h 0m · Movie

A hard-nosed newspaper editor poses as a night school student in order to woo a journalism teacher who cannot stand him.

7.1
10
The Ugly Dachshund

The Ugly Dachshund

1966 · 1h 33m · Movie

The Garrisons live with a Great Dane who thinks he's a dainty dachshund. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles.

6.5
11
The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary

1939 · 1h 12m · Movie

When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.

7.1
12
The Sniper

The Sniper

1952 · 1h 28m · Movie

A sniper kills young brunettes as the police attempt to grapple with the psychology of the unknown assailant.

7.1
13
The Invisible Woman

The Invisible Woman

1940 · 1h 12m · Movie

An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.

6.0
14
The Gnome-Mobile

The Gnome-Mobile

1967 · 1h 24m · Movie

In the Redwood Forests of California, a multi-millionaire lumberman and his two young grandchildren encounter two gnomes who are supposedly the last of their kind.

6.4
15
Smart Money

Smart Money

1931 · 1h 21m · Movie

A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.

6.8
16
Primrose Path

Primrose Path

1940 · 1h 33m · Movie

A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but after he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.

6.8
17
The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock

1959 · 1h 13m · Movie

In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a rubbish collector and inventor. When radiation in a nearby cave turns his girlfriend into a giantess, antics ensue as he tries to shrink her using one of his...

5.3
18
Internes Can't Take Money

Internes Can't Take Money

1937 · 1h 18m · Movie

In his first film, young Dr. Kildare helps a female ex-con find her child.

6.8
19
The Lady Is Willing

The Lady Is Willing

1942 · 1h 32m · Movie

In order to adopt an abandoned baby, an actress arranges a marriage of convenience with a doctor.

6.3
20
Mysterious Intruder

Mysterious Intruder

1946 · 1h 1m · Movie

Amid murders and kidnappings, a private detective is hired to find a missing girl whose family inheritance contains two rare collectible song recordings worth a lot of money.

6.3
21
The Juggler

The Juggler

1953 · 1h 24m · Movie

In 1949, former concentration camp inmate and Berlin native Hans Muller, immigrates to Israel where, due to psychological problems, he can't adjust to peacetime life.

6.5
22
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

1968 · 1h 34m · Movie

A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.

6.5
23
The Road to Singapore

The Road to Singapore

1931 · 1h 9m · Movie

Gossip, snobbery, mistrust, divorce and a mail-order engagement dominate the lives of the British upper class living in the plantation colonies of Southeast Asia.

6.4