Tommy Lane

Tommy Lane was an American actor and stunt performer who worked in film and television during the 1970s. Born in Miami, Florida, he began his career with several episodes of the NBC series Flipper in the mid-1960s. He was best known for his roles in Shaft and Live and Let Die. In Shaft he played Leroy, a gangster who attacked the title character, and his Live and Let Die role as Adam was ranked 90th among 104 James Bond villains by Esquire. He also appeared in Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) as a character called 44, Ganja & Hess (1973), Shamus (1973) with Burt Reynolds, and Eureka (1983). On television, he appeared in the 1980s series Simon & Simon. In the 1980s he also worked as a jazz musician, playing trumpet and flugelhorn at the Blue Note in New York City. He died in 2021.