The Baron > Richard WillisAugust 31, 2026 at 10:44pm
It's Charles Lane. He was an actor who was in movies and TV from 1930 to 2006. He lived to be 102. TV Land feted him when he was 100, and he was like, "I'm still available tor work!" He tended to play stern, sour clerks, judges, bureaucrats and other authority figures. He had over 382 film roles, including many for Frank Capra, in such films as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Riding High (1950). He transitioned smoothly into TV, playng numberless roles, including a recurring role as the ever-scheming Homer Bedloe on Petticoat Junction. Lucy used him a lot in I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour and The Lucy Show. If you watched American movies and TV from the Great Depression until the turn of the century, you've almost certainly seen him in something.. It would probably take more effort not to have seen him in something.
I recently watched The Conqueror (1956), which starred John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Heavy above-ground atomic testing in the early 50s happened at the filming sites. Not everyone agrees, but cancer cases were three times what would normally be expected among the cast and crew. There is no record of the cases among the many Navaho extras. Studio head Howard Hughes watched it constantly but did not release the movie to the general public. It was finally released after his death.
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It's Charles Lane. He was an actor who was in movies and TV from 1930 to 2006. He lived to be 102. TV Land feted him when he was 100, and he was like, "I'm still available tor work!" He tended to play stern, sour clerks, judges, bureaucrats and other authority figures. He had over 382 film roles, including many for Frank Capra, in such films as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and Riding High (1950). He transitioned smoothly into TV, playng numberless roles, including a recurring role as the ever-scheming Homer Bedloe on Petticoat Junction. Lucy used him a lot in I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour and The Lucy Show. If you watched American movies and TV from the Great Depression until the turn of the century, you've almost certainly seen him in something.. It would probably take more effort not to have seen him in something.
Yes, I’ve seen and enjoyed Charles Lane in many roles. I had never seen him when he was that young!
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This tale, of course, turns rather dark. Although Kent would be plagued with bouts of cancer throughout her life, she would outlive the others.
I recently watched The Conqueror (1956), which starred John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Heavy above-ground atomic testing in the early 50s happened at the filming sites. Not everyone agrees, but cancer cases were three times what would normally be expected among the cast and crew. There is no record of the cases among the many Navaho extras. Studio head Howard Hughes watched it constantly but did not release the movie to the general public. It was finally released after his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(1956_film)#Nuclear_incident_and_cancer_controversy
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How did it end?
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