Mike Lane
{{short description|American actor}}
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| name = Mike Lane
| image = Mike Lane.JPG
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| birth_name = Michael V. Lane
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|01|06|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = Washington D.C., U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|06|1|1933|01|06|mf=yes}}
| death_place = Palmdale, California, U.S.
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| names = Tarzan Mike
| height = 6 ft 8 in
| weight = 275 lb
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| debut = 1952
| retired = 1959
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Michael V. Lane (January 6, 1933 – June 1, 2015) was an American actor and professional wrestler.{{cite web|last1=Lowrie|first1=Katharine|title=MICHAEL V. LANE|url=http://theprecis.com/michael-v-lane/|website=theprecis.com|accessdate=April 8, 2017}}
Biography
Lane's size (height 6'8" or 2.03 m, weight 275 lbs or 125 kg) led him to work in the King Bros. Circus boxing tent and wrestling tent. He also wrestled professionally under the name "Tarzan Mike" in 1952–1959.[http://wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bios&wrestler=7629 Mike Lane]. wrestlingdata.com While filming The Harder They Fall,{{cite web|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9900E3DE1E3CE03BBC4852DFB366838D649EDE|title='Harder They Fall' Opens; Prizefight Film Stars Bogart and Steiger Schulberg Novel Made Into Stinging Movie|work=The New York Times|accessdate=January 15, 2012}} Lane was given dramatic and boxing lessons to appear as the giant Toro Moreno, an outclassed boxer based on Primo Carnera.{{cite book|title=LIFE|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pk8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA103|date=April 16, 1956|publisher=Time Inc|pages=103–|issn=0024-3019}}
Lane made numerous television appearances including a role as a country bumpkin who gets talked into boxing by Bret Maverick (James Garner) and Dandy Jim Buckley (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) in an epic 1957 episode of Maverick entitled "Stampede." Lane also had a regular role as Frank N. Stein in Monster Squad (1976).
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1956
| Toro Moreno | |
| 1957
| Henchman Nels | |
| 1958
| Hans Himmler / The Monster | |
| 1960
| Glinka | |
| 1961
| Anoka | |
| 1962
| Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules | Hercules | |
| 1967
| Sioux Chief | |
| 1968
| Frank Hawk | |
| 1972
| Lumberjack | |
| 1973
| Big Jack | |
| 1973
| Fats | |
| 1975
| Shark | |
| 1975
| Frewen | |
| 1976
| Carmine Longo | |
| 1983
| Stryker | Kardis | |
| 1987
| Code Name: Zebra | Carmine Longo | |
| 1988
| Frank N. Stien | Also producer |
| 1991
| Curse of the Crystal Eye | Hashim | |
| 1994
| Asmodeus (The Demon) | |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1957
| Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers | | Episode: "Test of a Titan" |
| 1957
| Cheyenne | Chuck Welch | Episode: "Decision at Gunsight" |
| 1957–1958
| Patient | 2 episodes |
| 1957–1959
| Maverick | Horace Cusack / Noah Perkins | 2 episodes |
| 1958
| Big Bat Pourier | Episode: "The Greatest Scout of All" |
| 1958
| The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | Episode: "The Daughter of Casey O'Grady" |
| 1958
| Decision | | Episode: "Night of the Stranger" |
| 1958
| John Allman | Episode: "The Hunted" |
| 1959
| Bartender | Episode: "The Sergeant" |
| 1959
| Carl | Episode: "The Last Rebel" |
| 1959
| | Episode: "The Giant" |
| 1959
| Waller | Season 3, Episode 9: "The Black Handkerchief" |
| 1960
| James Stenbeck | Episode: "Syndicate Sanctuary" |
| 1960
| Jackson | Episode: "Sundance and the Bare-Knuckled Fighters" |
| 1960
| Lembrick | Episode: "The Hundred Thousand Dollar Policy" |
| 1960
| Monito | Episode: "Green Hell" |
| 1961
| Carlos | Episode: "Personal Appearance" |
| 1964
| The Megasoid | Episode: "The Duplicate Man" |
| 1965
| Branded | Trask | Episode: "Mightier Than the Sword" |
| 1966–1969
| Bear Barnett / Ike | 2 episodes |
| 1967
| Batman | Daddy Longlegs | 2 episodes |
| 1967
| Hondo | Moon Dog | Episode: "Hondo and the Superstition Massacre" |
| 1968
| Frankenstein | S2:E18, "Monstrous Monkee Mash" |
| 1969
| Roger | Segment: "Love and the Positive Man" |
| 1970
| Centurion | Episode: "Smartacus" |
| 1971
| Lew Bates | Episode: "The Connection" |
| 1972
| Adam-12 | Art Moss | Episode: "Citizens All" |
| 1972
| Gunsmoke | Digby | Episode: "Sarah" |
| 1972
| Ironside | Nick Marcatti | Episode: "Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?" |
| 1972
| Sam Fenwick | Episode: "If I Should Die Before I Wake" |
| 1973
| Tall Biker | Episode: "Frequency" |
| 1976
| Guard | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 1976
| 13 episodes |
| 1976–1977
| Tony / Fred | 2 episodes |
| 1977
| Kojak | Curly | Episode: "The Queen of Hearts Is Wild" |
| 1977
| Rossi | Episode: "A Question of Time" |
| 1977
| Eddie Mayer | Episode: "The Crying Child" |
| 1982
| Reject | Episode: "X-22" |
| 1982
| Jerry | Episode: "Forget Me Not" |
| 1983
| Bodyguard #1 | Episode: "Bail Out" |
| 1986
| Cold War Killers | Foreman | Television film |
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Mike Lane}}
- {{IMDb name|id=0485485|name=Mike Lane}}
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Category:American male film actors
Category:American male professional wrestlers
Category:Professional wrestlers from Washington, D.C.