Lane Smith
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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
Getting Personal (1998)
As: Psychiatrist
Young professionals Christopher and Melissa meet and fall hard for each other. As their attraction grows, it becomes apparent that in order for their relationship to succeed, they must overcome Christopher's dark secret involving his father, with the help of his best friend and a sharp-edged psychiatrist.
Directed by: Ron Burrus
Stars: Michael Landes | John Shea | Lane Smith | Hedy Burress
Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy (1997)
As: Senator Silverthorne
Matt and George investigate a series of strange occurrences involving newcomers, who are found to be programmed to carry out someone's dirty work. The method by which they are brainwashed dates back to the slave ship's rebellion group, the Udara, who, we discover, Susan was a part of. Susan and George's lives are further disrupted when Buck enrols in the police academy.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Johnson
Stars: Eric Pierpoint | Gary Graham | Terri Treas | Michele Scarabelli | Lauren Woodland
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
Duplicates (1992)
As: Mr Fryman
A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Sandor Stern
Stars: Cicely Tyson | Lane Smith | Gregory Harrison | Kim Greist | Erik Alskog
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
Killer Instinct (1988)
As: Dr. Butler
Woody Harrelson stars in the story of psychiatrist Lisa DaVito and her battle to save a tortured man whose past has turned him to violence. One tragic incident seals his fate and shakes Lisa's faith in her profession.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Waris Hussein
Stars: Woody Harrelson | Lane Smith | Kevin Conroy | Anne Betancourt | Melissa Gilbert
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
The Member of the Wedding (1982)
As: Mr. Addams
A 1982 made-for-television remake of the 1952 Fred Zinnemann film. Shown as a feature on "NBC Live Theater."
Runtime: 120 min.
Directed by: Delbert Mann
Stars: Dwier Brown | Lane Smith | Pearl Bailey | Dana Hill | Howard Rollins
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
The Solitary Man (1979)
As: Jack Collins
The Solitary Man is a made-for-TV movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey
Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer | Carrie Snodgress | Lane Smith | Lara Parker | Earl Holliman
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
Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976)
As: Tyler
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Fielder Cook
Stars: Ken Kercheval | Lewis J. Stadlen | Arthur Hill | Vera Miles | Ellen Barber
Valley Forge (1975)
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
Runtime: 75 min.
Directed by: Fielder Cook
Stars: Barry Snider | Harry Andrews | Richard Basehart | Alan Cauldwell | Stuart Warmflash
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