MR. DEEDS: is veteran character actor Charles Lane in it?
leo86
MR. DEEDS, in which there was a quick shot of a very old butler played
by veteran character actor Charles Lane (who's 97 now), who happened
to be in the original MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936). I have seen no
shots of him since, no mentions of him in any reviews and no listing
of him in the credits on IMDB. Now, I don't want to have to go waste
$10 and 2 hours of my life to actually see the movie if Lane's part
was cut out (or if I was simply wrong).
So--can anyone who's seen the film and knows who Charles Lane is tell
me if he is indeed in the film?
Thank you.
Del
Deeds Goes to Town" (1936) and also in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
(1939) as an annoying reported.
James L. Neibaur
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Derek
"James L. Neibaur" <jimn...@aol.combatant> wrote in message
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> No -- Charles Lane is not in the Adam Sandler version of Mr. Deeds.
>
One of the great character actors of film and television. Is he indeed still
alive? Haven't heard anything of him in ages.
Derek
James L. Neibaur
>alive? Haven't heard anything of him in ages.
Yes, he's still with us. Most sources indicate he was born in 1905, but Lane
himself claims to have been born in 1899! So he is either 97 or 103 years old!
Brent McKee
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On the other hand, based on the commercials that have been airing on TV (I
wouldn't spend $10 on an Adam Sandler film unless it featured very little
Sandler and lots of female nudity to remove the memory of Sandler actually
being in the movie) there is an actor who bears a superficial resemblance to
Charles Lane, but without the Homer Bedloe crabbiness that his face always
had and has.
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James L. Neibaur
>Charles Lane, but without the Homer Bedloe crabbiness that his face always
>had and has.
Yeah, but it isn't Lane. Someone in this or another newsgroup even went so far
as to ask the film's producer. Lane is not in the movie.
Jim Beaver
"James L. Neibaur" <jimn...@aol.combatant> wrote in message
> >there is an actor who bears a superficial resemblance to
> >Charles Lane, but without the Homer Bedloe crabbiness that his face
always
> >had and has.
>
> Yeah, but it isn't Lane. Someone in this or another newsgroup even went
so far
> as to ask the film's producer. Lane is not in the movie.
Better yet, ask the casting director. Unless an actor is in one of the top
five or six roles in a film, there's a good chance the producer doesn't have
a clue who he is. If it's a tiny bit part, the producer almost without
doubt won't know who the person is, at least after thirty seconds beyond the
moment of meeting him. Casting directors have much more direct knowledge of
the actual identities of the people in a picture, down to the bit parts,
than a producer normally would, because the CD calls them, auditions them,
hires them, does their contracts, and makes sure they show up. The producer
generally nods at a bit player and says, "Sure, him, fine."
Jim Beaver
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Mark LoPresti
<< No -- Charles Lane is not in the Adam Sandler version of Mr. Deeds. >>
Too bad. I was hoping Mr. Lane, at 97, was actually well enough to have made a
cameo appearance. Then again, maybe he *is* well. Well enough to know he didn't
want to be in an Adam Sandler movie!
Mark LoPresti, Buffalo NY
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