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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.
Most Popular Richard Lane Trailers
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09 May 1942
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.
04 August 1950
Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.
08 June 1945
Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew was the witness to a murder committed by gangster Ten Grand Jackson.
31 December 1937
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village.
09 March 1949
The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they've been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected "fathead" who intends to take an active interest in running the team.
30 August 1940
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.
25 December 1941
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
07 January 1938
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
24 March 1950
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak.
27 October 1939
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
20 May 1938
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.
13 February 1942
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west.
02 May 1946
Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult.
16 July 1937
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
25 September 1943
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
02 August 1972
Roller-derby skater K.C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.
14 March 1941
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary.
26 February 1947
A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
07 April 1939
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr.
13 December 1939
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
21 October 1944
After a rare gem is stolen from an exhibition at a posh hotel, Inspector Farraday decides to recruit former thief Boston Blackie to find the stone.
20 June 1941
San Antonio Rose is an amiably wacky mini-musical evenly divided between its "official" stars, The Merry Macs, and a strong cast of supporting clowns.
24 May 1940
Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs.
19 July 1944
Wilbert Winkle, a henpecked, mild-mannered, middle-aged bank clerk and handyman finds himself in the midst of battle in the South Pacific.
02 November 1939
A prosecutor's career and his adopted daughter's happiness hang in the balance when he is blackmailed by a gangster.
08 January 1938
Leon's boss buys a racehorse, but doesn't want word to get out that he is the owner, so he has the papers filled out showing Leon as the owner of record.
22 November 1939
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary.
16 April 1937
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
20 February 1941
When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
16 September 1948
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
11 February 1949
Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
10 March 1943
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy.
08 April 1938
A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.
04 July 1943
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States.
07 June 1940
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
06 October 1939
When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.
06 May 1938
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives.
22 April 1938
When a bank is robbed, a not-so-bright teller is wrongly suspected of being part of the holdup team. Comedy.
03 September 1937
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
11 February 1938
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name.
20 August 1937
Director Lew Landers' 1937 B-film, about a crew of misfit pilots working for an Argentinian air service, stars Chester Morris, Van Heflin, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Richard Lane, Douglas Walton, Paul Guilfoyle, Solly Ward, Walter Miller and Rita LaRoy.
25 May 1938
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods.
30 November 1944
Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar.
13 March 1941
In this crime drama, a ruthless gangster's son is soon following in his father's footsteps. When his daddy kills an FBI agent and a cabby, the boy sees it all.
30 June 1939
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
29 September 1943
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
16 May 1950
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
30 December 1938
While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.
05 April 1951
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession.
22 November 1940
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
03 November 1944
Two Bowery vaudevillians find success in producing shows on Broadway, but when one of them suddenly departs to work for a beautiful woman, a feud erupts.
18 November 1937
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
16 May 1941
A western rodeo rider is cast in a starring role in a new Hollywood film, but his temperamental and spoiled leading lady proves difficult to tame.
08 October 1943
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel.
18 March 1948
When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down
04 September 1943
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job.
14 October 1937
Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting.
05 November 1942
Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California.
20 May 1943
Caroline Bird, the crotchety and stingy owner of Bird Milk Products, is not amused when her employees at the Dairyville factory, the oldest plant in the company, broadcast a special radio program in honor of her birthday.
13 September 1940
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal.
