Lane Smith
Walter Lane Smith III, known as Lane Smith (April 29, 1936 – June 13, 2005), was an American actor. Some of 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.
Early life
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. Smith served two years in the United States Army.
Career
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.
Lane Smith (illustrator)
Lane Smith (born August 25, 1959) is an American illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books created with other writers.
Two works created by Jon Scieszka and Smith were ranked among the 100 best all-time picture books in a 2012 survey published by School Library Journal: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, number 35, and The Stinky Cheese Man, 91.
Background
Smith was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but moved to Corona, California at a young age. He spent summers in Tulsa, and cites experiences traveling there via Route 66 as inspirations for his work, saying that "[o]nce you've seen a 100-foot cement buffalo on top of a donut-stand in the middle of nowhere, you're never the same."
He studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, at the encouragement of his high-school art teacher, Dan Baughman, helping to pay for it by working as a janitor at Disneyland. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration, and moved to New York City, where he was hired to do illustrations for various publications including TIME, Mother Jones and Ms.
Smith Jr., Lane Filmography
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2014, role: producer
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2014, role: writer
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2014, role: director
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2014, role: editor
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2014, role: editor
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2014, role: actor , character name: Blane Conner
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2014, role: actor , character name: Artist
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2014, role: director
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2014, role: producer
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2013, role: actor , character name: The Joker
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2012, role: actor
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2012, role: director
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2012, role: producer
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2012, role: actor , character name: Iron Man
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2012, role: producer
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2012, role: actor , character name: Tony Stark
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2010, role: miscellaneous crew
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2010, role: actor , character name: Donny
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2010, role: actor
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2010, role: miscellaneous crew
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2010, role: miscellaneous crew
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2009, role: miscellaneous crew
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2009, role: miscellaneous crew
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2007, role: actor , character name: Alex
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2007, role: producer
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2006, role: actor , character name: Guy in Lobby
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1997, role: actor , character name: Boy Alien
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1992, role: actor , character name: Fan
