Rusty Lane
Biography
Rusty Lane was a college professor and actor who left academia in his forties to perform on Broadway. Born in Chicago, he spent nearly fourteen years managing the University of Wisconsin theater before moving to New York. His first screen role came in The House on 92nd Street (1945), and he joined the original cast of the Tony-winning Mister Roberts, playing Chief Johnson and understudying the lead before taking over as the Captain for a total of 1,382 performances. He was also in the original cast of The Desperate Hours. Later films included The Harder They Fall (1956), Bigger Than Life (1956) and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956). On television he starred as a detective in Crime with Father and had a regular role on The Clear Horizon. He often played character parts such as sheriffs, judges and police detectives.
87years old at death
- Born Chicago
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
Movie Career
- Films
- 7
- Career span
- 18 years1945 to 1963
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A change of course
In April 1942, Lane staged Knickerbocker Holiday at the new Wisconsin Union Theater, marking the one hundredth production he directed in his college career, and he resigned his position that same month.
First role
Rusty Lane's first screen role came in a Louis de Rochemont movie made in New York for 20th Century-Fox, released in late 1945 as The House on 92nd Street.
A role that slipped away
Lane went back to New York to direct Anderson's play Storm Operation. Rehearsals started in November, and the first tryout was in Baltimore on December 13, 1943, then a week in Pittsburgh, but Lane was replaced as director between the tryouts.
Rusty Lane movies on Netflix
Best known for
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Worked with
Rusty Lane shares two films with Whit Bissell, and one with each of the others. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Mark RobsonDirector, 1 film, 1956
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