Lane Smith (April 29, 1936 – June 13, 2005) was an American actor . He graduated from the Leelanau School, a boarding school in Glen Arbor, Michigan, and spent one year boarding at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, before going off to study at the Actors Studio in the late 1950s and early 1960s along with Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino; he was recognized in their Hall of Fame. Smith served two years in the United States Army. After graduating, Smith found steady work in New York theater before making his film debut in Maidstone in 1970. During the 1970s, he regularly made appearances in small film roles including Rooster Cogburn in 1975 and Network in 1976. In 1981, Smith appeared in the Sidney Lumet-directed film Prince of the City. He also acted on television, notably playing a United States Marine in Vietnam in the television miniseries A Rumor of War and in the 1980 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie Gideon's Trumpet starring Henry Fonda, José Ferrer and John Houseman. Smit...
False Arrest
1991
Prison
1987
Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy
1997
Honeysuckle Rose
1980
The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer
1977
Air America
1990
The Mighty Ducks
1992
City in Fear
1980
The Spy Within
1994
Son in Law
1993
Rooster Cogburn
1975
Prime Suspect
1982
Killer Instinct
1988
Getting Personal
1998
Network
1976
My Cousin Vinny
1992
The Legend of Bagger Vance
2000
Dark Night of the Scarecrow
1981
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
1977
Red Dawn
1984
The Crash of Flight 401
1978
On the Yard
1978
The Scout
1994
Over the Edge
1979
The Hi-Lo Country
1998
Between the Lines
1977
Terror at London Bridge
1985
Resurrection
1980
Native Son
1986
A Death in Canaan
1978
Frances
1982
Places in the Heart
1984
Night Game
1989
Blue Collar
1978
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992
Mark, I Love You
1980
Prince of the City
1981
The Last American Hero
1973
Challenger
1990