Lane Smith
Actor
Born April 29, 1936 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Lane Smith (April 29, 1936 – June 13, 2005) was an American actor . He graduated from the Leelanau School, a boarding school in Glen Arbor, Michigan, and spent one year boarding at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, before going off to study at the Actors Studio in the late 1950s and early 1960s along with Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino; he was recognized in their Hall of Fame. Smith served two years in the United States Army. After graduating, Smith found steady work in New York theater before making his film debut in Maidstone in 1970. During the 1970s, he regularly made appearances in small film roles including Rooster Cogburn in 1975 and Network in 1976. In 1981, Smith appeared in the Sidney Lumet-directed film Prince of the City. He also acted on television, notably playing a United States Marine in Vietnam in the television miniseries A Rumor of War and in the 1980 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie Gideon's Trumpet starring Henry Fonda, José Ferrer and John Houseman. Smith is also credited for playing McMurphy 650 times in the 1971 Off-Broadway revival of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.
Filmography
Out of Order
Frank
WW3
John Sullivan
DAG
Agent Baxter
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Grantland Rice
Bull
Judging Amy
Mr. Radford
Inherit the Wind
Reverend Jeremiah Brown
The Hi-Lo Country
Steve Shaw
Getting Personal
Dr. Maddie
From the Earth to the Moon
Emmett Seaborn
Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy
Senator Silverthorne
The Practice
Judge H. Finkel
King of the Hill
Charlie Fortner (voice)
The War at Home
Marjorie's Husband
Clueless
Dan Hafner
The Outer Limits
Dr. Malcolm Boussard
The Scout
Ron Wilson
The Spy Within
Stephen Hahn
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Perry White
Son in Law
Walter Warner
Walker, Texas Ranger
Reverend Thornton Powers
The Distinguished Gentleman
Dick Dodge
The Mighty Ducks
Jack Reilly
Duplicates
Mr. Fryman
My Cousin Vinny
Jim Trotter III
False Arrest
Martin Busey
Good Sports
R.J. Rappaport
Blind Vengeance
Col. Blanchard
Air America
Senator Davenport
Challenger
Larry Mulloy
The Final Days
Richard Nixon
Night Game
Whitty
Killer Instinct
Dr. Butler
Prison
Warden Eaton Sharpe
Weeds
Claude
Native Son
Britton
Dress Gray
Col. King
If Tomorrow Comes
Warden Brannigan
Terror at London Bridge
Anson Whitfield
Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues
Captain Max Rosenberg
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Robert Warren
Amazing Stories
Dr. Caruso
The Twilight Zone
(segment "Profile in Silver")
Hollywood Beat
Cp. Milton Treadwell
MacGruder and Loud
Richard
V
Nathan Bates
Murder, She Wrote
Pol. Chief Miles Underwood
Places in the Heart
Albert Denby
Red Dawn
Mayor Bates
Purple Hearts
Cmdr. Markel
Something About Amelia
Officer Dealy
Chiefs
Hoss Spence
Special Bulletin
Morton Sanders
The American Snitch
Chuck Maxwell
The Member of the Wedding
Mr. Addams
Frances
Docteur Symington
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Clarence Blake
Prime Suspect
Tom Keating
American Playhouse
Britton
Dark Night of the Scarecrow
Harless Hocker
Prince of the City
Tug Barnes
Hill Street Blues
Mike
Mark, I Love You
Don Payer
The Georgia Peaches
Randolph Dukane
Resurrection
Don
A Rumor of War
Sgt. Willliam Holgren
Honeysuckle Rose
Brag
On the Nickel
Preacher
Gideon's Trumpet
Fred Turner
City in Fear
Brian
Disaster on the Coastliner
John Carlson
The Solitary Man
Jack Collins
Hart to Hart
Over the Edge
Sloan
The Crash of Flight 401
On the Yard
Blake
A Death in Canaan
Bob Hartman
Blue Collar
Clarence Hill
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
Lou Grant
Dr. Lawrence
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
Officer Mackie
Between the Lines
Roy Walsh
The Displaced Person
Mr. Shortley
Network
Robert McDonough
Quincy, M.E.
Dr. Paul Flynn
Everybody Rides the Carousel
Stage 1 (voice)
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Tyler
Valley Forge
Spad
Rooster Cogburn
Leroy
The Rockford Files
CIA Agent Donnegan
Man on a Swing
Ted Ronan
Kojak
Clyde Regan
The Last American Hero
Rick Penny
Maidstone
Unholy Matrimony
Partygoer
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Spad