Charles Lane

ACTOR, DIRECTOR, WRITER

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Charles Lane, with a host of awards and credits to his name, is a force to be reckoned with. Born in New York's South Bronx in 1953 and inspired by Hitchcock films, Lane knew early in his childhood what his true calling was. His passion for film transpired when while in junior high he made his first film, a spy spoof, with a Super-8 camera his father had given him for Christmas. Lane furthered this pursuit with his enrollment for a film degree at State University of New York at Purchase. During his years in college Charles Lane wrote and directed A Place in Time (1977), a short that won the Student Academy Award. However, Lane grew up in a time when the prospects for African American filmmakers were limited, but during the 1980s a revival for black films that strayed away from the blaxploitation features arose. Then after a brief inspirational conversation with a homeless man on his way back from a boxing match, Lane created his launching vehicle to filmmaking history, Sidewalk Stories (1989) (1989). This poignant comedy examined homelessness through the eyes of a street artist played charmingly by Lane himself. Shot on a low budget and plagued with time constraints to meet film submission deadlines 'Sidewalk Stories' was shot in 15 days. The movie was received favorable by critics worldwide, propelling Charles Lane in the forefront of American filmmaking. 'Sidewalk Stories' almost not making the Cannes deadline walked away with the prestigious Prix du Public and a record 12 minute ovation. The success of Sidewalk Stories led to multiple film contracts with Island pictures and Disney's Touchstone. Touchstone proposed a two-picture arrangement, beginning with the feature-length film True Identity (1991). Released in 1991, True Identity was adapted from Andy Breckman's sketch "White Like Me," which was originally conceived for a segment by comedian Eddie Murphy on NBC's popular television show Saturday Night Live. 'True Identity' is a tale of an unemployed black actor who dons a white face to escape a mobster's death threat. True Identity featured British comedian Lenny Henry, Oscar award nominee Frank Langella, Anne Marie Johnson and the late J.T. Walsh. An underrated performance by Lenny Henry who in the film dubbed a series of American accents that matched his fine comedic timing with Lane's satirical story telling. Lane began work on several projects. The Blue Hour, "a contemporary adaptation of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice [in which Orpheus, whose musical gifts could tame wild beasts, descends to Hell to bring back his dead wife, Eurydice] and Inertia, an "action-comedy-romantic-thriller" were both in production by the spring of 1992. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anthony Ogosi

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Streaming Availability

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Releases by Year

Charles Lane on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1989 to 1994. See the full graphs of the number of Charles Lane movies released per year from 1989 till 1994.

Top Genres

Charles Lane works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Drama Genre flixes. 60% of Charles Lane movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Charles Lane worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Charles Lane has worked on is 6.1.

6.1 / 10

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Nearly silent comedy filmed in black and white follows a street artist (Charles Lane), who rescues a baby after her father was murdered. The artist then sets off to find the mother, but has...

7.2/1097 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

In 1898 Cuba, five Buffalo Soldiers find a gold cache, desert and return to America where they help defend a black town from the KKK, all the while trying to avoid capture by lawmen and military authorities alike.

5.4/10111 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.

5.1/1093 min

Available in 8 platform(s).