Dick Lane (announcer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetDick Lane (announcer)
American actor and television announcer
Date of Birth: 28-May-1899
Place of Birth: Rice Lake, Wisconsin, United States
Date of Death: 05-Sep-1982
Profession: actor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Dick Lane (announcer)
- Richard Lane (May 28, 1899 – September 5, 1982) was an American actor and television announcer.
- In movies he played assured, fast-talking slickers: usually press agents, policemen, and detectives, sometimes swindlers and frauds.
- He is perhaps best known to movie fans as "Inspector Farraday" in the Boston Blackie mystery-comedies.
- Lane also played Faraday in the first radio version of Boston Blackie, which ran on NBC from June 23, 1944 to September 15, 1944.
- Lane was an early arrival on television, first as a news reporter and then as a sports announcer, broadcasting wrestling and roller derby shows on KTLA-TV, mainly from the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles.
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