Lane Smith

WW 3 (2001)

As: John Sullivan

Terrorists release a deadly biological-warfare virus in the United States.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Robert Mandel

Stars: Timothy Hutton | Marin Hinkle | Terry O'Quinn | Lane Smith | Michael Constantine

Inherit the Wind (1999)

As: Reverend Jeremiah Brown

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Daniel Petrie

Stars: Beau Bridges | Lane Smith | George C. Scott | Jack Lemmon | Piper Laurie

The Flight of the Dove (1996)

As: Stephen Hahn

A beautiful spy trades sex for secrets. A reclusive explosives expert is haunted by a tragic past. When these two meet, the sparks fly...

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Steve Railsback

Stars: Scott Glenn | Theresa Russell | Lane Smith | Terence Knox | Katherine Helmond

The Scout (1994)

As: Ron Wilson

When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout Al Percolo (Albert Brooks) gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska (Brendan Fraser). Soon, the Bronx Bombers put a $55 million contract on the table -- provided a psychiatrist (Dianne Wiest) can affirm Nebraska's mental stability. Watch for Yankees owner ...

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Michael Ritchie

Stars: Dianne Wiest | Brendan Fraser | Albert Brooks | Anne Twomey | Lane Smith

Son in Law (1993)

As: Walter Warner

Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back ...

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Steve Rash

Stars: Pauly Shore | Lane Smith | Carla Gugino | Cindy Pickett | Tiffani Thiessen

The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)

As: Dick Dodge

A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists. But soon he learns the nature of the game and decides to fight back the only way he knows how, with a con.

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Lynn

Stars: Eddie Murphy | Victoria Rowell | Joe Don Baker | Sheryl Lee Ralph | Lane Smith

The Mighty Ducks (1992)

As: Coach Jack Reilly

After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings with his own former coach, Jack Reilly. The reluctant Gordon eventually grows to appreciate his team, which includes promising young Charlie Conway, and leads ...

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Stephen Herek

Stars: Josef Sommer | Emilio Estevez | Joss Ackland | Lane Smith | Heidi Kling

My Cousin Vinny (1992)

As: Jim Trotter III

Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend , to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Jonathan Lynn

Stars: Joe Pesci | Marisa Tomei | Ralph Macchio | Mitchell Whitfield | Fred Gwynne

False Arrest (1991)

As: Martin Busey

A luxury home, a handsome husband and terrific children. But it all comes crashing down when she is accused of being a mastermind behind a brutal triple-homicide and is arrested and handcuffed in front of her own children. A gripping story of passion and betrayal as a woman fights to clear her name and avoid the death penalty for a crime she didn't commit.

Runtime: 192 min.

Directed by: Bill L. Norton

Stars: Steven Bauer | James Handy | Lane Smith | Robert Wagner | Donna Mills

Blind Vengeance (1990)

As: Col. Blanchard

A man seeks revenge on the white supremacists acquitted in the murder of his son

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Lee Philips

Stars: Gerald McRaney | Don Hood | Marg Helgenberger | Lane Smith

Air America (1990)

As: Senator Davenport

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode

Stars: Mel Gibson | David Marshall Grant | Nancy Travis | Robert Downey Jr. | Ken Jenkins

Challenger (1990)

As: Larry Mulloy

A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the use of the o-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion.

Runtime: 160 min.

Directed by: Glenn A. Jordan

Stars: Barry Bostwick | Richard Jenkins | Karen Allen | Brian Kerwin | Julie Fulton

The Final Days (1989)

As: Richard Nixon

The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.

Runtime: 150 min.

Directed by: Richard Pearce

Stars: David Ogden Stiers | Lane Smith | Theodore Bikel | Richard Kiley | Ed Flanders

Night Game (1989)

As: Whitty

A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Peter Masterson

Stars: Karen Young | Paul Gleason | Lane Smith | Richard Bradford | Roy Scheider

Prison (1988)

As: Warden Eaton Sharpe

After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of ...

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Renny Harlin

Stars: Viggo Mortensen | Chelsea Field | Lane Smith | Lincoln Kilpatrick | Tom Everett

Weeds (1987)

As: Claude

A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without paroll, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

Runtime: 115 min.

Directed by: John D. Hancock

Stars: Mark Rolston | Ernie Hudson | Nick Nolte | John Toles-Bey | Rita Taggart

Native Son (1986)

As: Britton

In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.

Runtime: 111 min.

Directed by: Jerrold Freedman

Stars: Matt Dillon | Elizabeth McGovern | Geraldine Page | Oprah Winfrey | Victor Love

Terror at London Bridge (1985)

As: Anson Whitfield

London Bridge, London, England, 1888: Jack the Ripper dies in the Thames river. London Bridge, Lake Havasu, Arizona, 1985: the last original stone used to rebuild London Bridge is laid and all the city is happy...but then some strange murders start happening. Policeman Don Gregory has some suspects, but when he develops a theory that Jack the Ripper has been resurrected, no one believes him.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: E.W. Swackhamer

Stars: Adrienne Barbeau | Ken Swofford | Clu Gulager | David Hasselhoff | Stepfanie Kramer

Red Dawn (1984)

As: Mayor Bates

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: John Milius

Stars: C. Thomas Howell | Charlie Sheen | Lea Thompson | Patrick Swayze | Darren Dalton

Purple Hearts (1984)

As: Cmdr. Markel

A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare.

Runtime: 116 min.

Directed by: Sidney J. Furie

Stars: Paul McCrane | Stephen Lee | Annie McEnroe | Ken Wahl | Cheryl Ladd

Something About Amelia (1984)

As: Officer Dealy

The movie follows the Bennett family after Amelia tells her school counselor that her father has sexually abused her.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Randa Haines

Stars: Ted Danson | Glenn Close | Lane Smith | Roxana Zal | Olivia Cole

The American Snitch (1983)

As: Chuck Maxwell

Runtime: 82 min.

Directed by: Richard A. Harris

Stars: Lane Smith | George Lindsey | André De Shields | Toni Kalem | Fred McCarren

Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)

As: Harless Hocker

Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After they are acquitted due to lack of evidence, the men find themselves being stalked by a mysterious scarecrow.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Frank De Felitta

Stars: Charles Durning | Lane Smith | Claude Earl Jones | Larry Drake | Robert F. Lyons

The Georgia Peaches (1980)

As: Randolph Dukane

Two sisters & their moonshinerunning boyfriend outwit the Dragon Lady of the Southern crime belt in this comedy car chase / action-packed undercover investigation story.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Daniel Haller

Stars: Dirk Benedict | Sally Kirkland | Burton Gilliam | David Hayward | Sandra Dorsey

Honeysuckle Rose (1980)

As: Brag--Cotton's Manager

Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.

Runtime: 119 min.

Directed by: Jerry Schatzberg

Stars: Amy Irving | Slim Pickens | Dyan Cannon | Willie Nelson | Joey Floyd

City in Fear (1980)

As: Brian

A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.

Runtime: 150 min.

Directed by: Jud Taylor | Alan Smithee

Stars: Mickey Rourke | William Prince | Robert Vaughn | Perry King | David Janssen

On the Yard (1978)

Chilly (Waites) is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con (Heard) confronts Chilly's power, he learns the vicious price of defiance.

Runtime: 102 min.

Directed by: Raphael D. Silver

Stars: John Heard | Joe Grifasi | Richard Bright | Mike Kellin | Thomas G. Waites

A Death in Canaan (1978)

As: Bob Hartman

When a teenager is accused of his mother's murder, the community of Canaan rallies to his defense.

Runtime: 125 min.

Directed by: Tony Richardson

Stars: Brian Dennehy | Stefanie Powers | Tom Atkins | Paul Clemens | Jacqueline Brooks

Blue Collar (1978)

As: Clarence Hill, Union Steward

Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.

Runtime: 114 min.

Directed by: Paul Schrader

Stars: Harvey Keitel | Ed Begley Jr. | Yaphet Kotto | Richard Pryor | Harry Bellaver

Between the Lines (1977)

As: Roy Walsh

The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to be sold to a media giant.

Runtime: 101 min.

Directed by: Joan Micklin Silver

Stars: Jeff Goldblum | John Heard | Bruno Kirby | Lindsay Crouse | Jill Eikenberry

The Displaced Person (1977)

As: Mr. Shortley

A conscientious but driven Polish refugee disrupts the hierarchy of power on a Georgia farm in the 1940s.

Runtime: 58 min.

Directed by: Glenn A. Jordan

Stars: Samuel L. Jackson | Lane Smith | John Houseman | Robert Earl Jones | Dina Herrington

Network (1976)

As: Robert McDonough

A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.

Runtime: 121 min.

Directed by: Sidney Lumet

Stars: Faye Dunaway | Robert Duvall | William Holden | Peter Finch | Wesley Addy

Rooster Cogburn (1975)

As: Leroy

After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Minister Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Stuart Millar

Stars: Anthony Zerbe | Katharine Hepburn | John Wayne | Richard Jordan | John McIntire

Man on a Swing (1974)

As: Ted Ronan

A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.

Runtime: 110 min.

Directed by: Frank Perry

Stars: Elizabeth Wilson | Cliff Robertson | Joel Grey | Dorothy Tristan | George Voskovec

The Last American Hero (1973)

As: Rick Penny

A backwoods bootlegger decides to put the driving skills he developed evading the law to good use. He becomes a race car driver, and eventually, one of the fastest drivers in history.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Lamont Johnson

Stars: Jeff Bridges | Ned Beatty | Gary Busey | Valerie Perrine | Geraldine Fitzgerald

Unholy Matrimony (1966)

As: Partygoer

Sexual indiscretions are used as a basis for blackmail.

Runtime: 78 min.

Directed by: Arthur John

Stars: Billy Green Bush | Uta Erickson | Sharon Kent | Alan Dellay | David Kirk