Lane Smith
| Lane Smith | |
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Smith as Perry White in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, 1993
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| Born |
Walter Lane Smith III April 29, 1936 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | June 13, 2005 (aged 69) Northridge, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor, presenter |
| Years active | 1966–2005 |
| Spouse(s) | Sydne MacCall (1985–?; divorced; 1 child) Debbie Benedict (2000–2005; his death; 2 children) |
Walter Lane Smith III, known as Lane Smith (April 29, 1936 – June 13, 2005), was an American actor. His well-known roles included portraying collaborator entrepreneur Nathan Bates in the NBC television series V, Mayor Bates in the film Red Dawn, newspaper editor Perry White in the ABC series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Coach Jack Reilly in The Mighty Ducks, district attorney Jim Trotter III in My Cousin Vinny and American President Richard Nixon in The Final Days, for which he received a Golden Globe award nomination.
Lane Smith was born in 1936 in Memphis, Tennessee. 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; there he was recognized with their Hall of Fame. Smith served two years in the United States Army.
After his graduation, he 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 he 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. He is also credited for playing McMurphy 650 times in the 1971 Broadway revival of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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