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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
Total trailers found: 150
02 April 1942
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are still in prison.
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 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.
01 April 1944
A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother.
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.
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.
05 April 1951
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession.
07 January 1938
A true-to-life gangster movie stirs up an all out mob assault on Hollywood.
27 October 1939
A New York City newspaper is sued for libel after reporting the wrong verdict in a murder trial.
01 July 1938
When his wife dances with the dancing instructor, Errol gets jealous and decides to take dancing lessons himself.
09 June 1944
Jack Haley plays Jack North, the nether end of a vaudeville horse act who inherits a western ranch. When he heads to the Great Outdoors to take possession, Jack winds up at the wrong place: a swanky dude ranch.
02 October 1942
The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air.
20 July 1939
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.
29 September 1943
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
21 May 1940
Mary and Joe Phillips' attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
26 October 1943
A mad scramble for stolen loot ensues after Boston Blackie has prisoners released for work in a wartime defence plant.
18 November 1937
An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.
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.
16 July 1937
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
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.
13 January 1940
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
31 July 1939
Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and the Mexican Army.
24 January 1946
Blackie runs into a woman he formally loved who now is married with a kid. When her husband gets out of prison he's killed in Blackie's apartment and of course the police thing Blackie pulled the trigger.
07 April 1939
In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr.
20 May 1938
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.
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.
28 January 1938
In a misguided effort to get a raise and promotion from his boss, Edgar Kennedy's wife and her father talk him into leasing a swank house and putting on the ritz.
28 October 1939
In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem.
14 June 1939
Jimmy Hanley learns that his former dancing partner has been killed, leaving a baby boy Sandy, so he takes the baby to live with him and his roommate Boris Bebenko.
10 September 1937
Errol's wife goes back to work, despite his objections.
01 May 1944
A private eye and a niece investigate when six World War I veterans start dying in the same week.
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.
13 April 1945
A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him.
10 June 1948
This Columbia All Star Comedy (production number 9427) finds Gus Shilling discovering that a cranky wife (Dorothy Granger) isn't the worst thing after shell-shocked veteran Dick Lane shows up.
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.
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.
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.
11 February 1949
Winning a mink coat brings nothing but trouble to a couple on a budget.
08 April 1938
A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.
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.
21 April 1947
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jensen, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love.
11 February 1938
A down-on-his-luck songwriter attempts to peddle musical compositions of a naive Arkansas hillbilly under his own name.
30 June 1939
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
15 April 1937
In World War I France, a pilot falls in love with the wife of his friend and superior officer.
22 November 1939
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary.
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.
22 November 1940
A precocious youngster organizes a show to save a government youth camp from a local entrepreneur.
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.
07 October 1938
A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero.
10 May 1945
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
25 December 1942
Two half brothers battle each other for the power of the throne and the love of sensual, gorgeous dancing girl Scheherazade.
08 June 1939
In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers.
28 March 1940
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; another (Hughes) cheats and goes to jail.
27 April 1939
To dim-bulb accountants find themselves working for a bookie in this comedy. Their jobs and their lives are placed in jeopardy when they accidently fumble $50,000 worth of the bookie's cash over to the secretary who wastes no time in spending $44,000 of it in less than 8 hours.
20 March 1942
Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child.
02 February 1945
Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College.
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.
