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Richard Lane (May 28, 1899 – September 5, 1982), sometimes known as Dick Lane, was an American actor and television announcer/presenter. In movies, he played assured, fast-talking slickers: usually press agents, policemen and detectives, sometimes swindlers and frauds.
Richard Lane, more commonly known as Dick Lane, was a television announcer and actor who made his mark broadcasting wrestling and roller derby shows on KTLA, mainly from the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.
- Early Years
- Work with KTLA
- Later Years
Lane was born in 1899 in Rice Lake, Wisconsinto a farm family. Early in life he developed talents for reciting poetry and doing various song-and-dance acts. By his teenage years, Lane was doing an "iron jaw" routine in circuses around Europe and worked as a drummer touring with a band in Australia.[citation needed] After the decline of vaudeville, ...
Because he had been working for Paramount Pictures, Lane was able to obtain work at experimental TV station KTLA, which was owned by the studio at the time. When the station went commercial in 1947, Lane appeared before the camera as a news presenter. One of the early highlights of his career was reporting on the first atomic explosion covered by a...
After Lane retired from television full-time in 1972, he accepted few offers for screen work; in later years he was typecast as a sports announcer. He did make a notable cameo appearance (as a roller-derby commentator) in Raquel Welch's film Kansas City Bomber. In 1974 he moved to a home in the Deep Well neighborhood of Palm Springs, California. La...
Jun 7, 2015 · Richard “Dick” Lane came into the world on May 28, 1899 in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. He was acting by age eight. After serving the United States in the First World War in a machine gun battalion, he returned home to Wisconsin for a couple of years of college.
Richard Lane, sometimes known as Dick Lane, was an American actor and television announcer/presenter. In movies, he played assured, fast-talking slickers: usually press agents, policemen and detectives, sometimes swindlers and frauds.
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Jun 23, 2023 · Richard Lane was born in 1928 in Austin, Texas, to a prostitute, Etta Mae King, and a pimp named “Texas Slim.” At three months old, Lane was thrown away in a dumpster covered in newspaper. Dick recalls that a pimp told his mother to throw him out, but he doesn’t know if it was Texas Slim.
