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Mike Lane is a Actor and Producer American born on 6 january 1933 at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Michael "Mike" Michael Lane (born January 6, 1933) is an American professional wrestler and actor.
Lane was discovered by Columbia Pictures and made his acting debut in The Harder They Fall.
Lane was given dramatic and boxing lessons to appear as the giant Toro Moreno, an outclassed boxer based on Primo Carnera.
Lane made numerous television appearances including a regular role as Frank N. Stein in The Monster Squad.
On November 25, 1958, in the episode "The Hunted" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins in the title role, Lane plays a former soldier, John Allman, who has become mentally unbalanced as a result of the terror of an Apache attack on his United States Army unit. Despite the efforts of a sympathetic Sugarfoot, Allman engages in bank robbery and murder and is tracked down by an impatient posse led by Clay Calhoun (R.G. Armstrong). Francis De Sales appears as Major Sterling in the episode, which is based on a story in True West Magazine.
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Birth name Michael Michael Lane
Nationality USA
Birth 6 january 1933 (91 years) at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 6 january 1933 (91 years) at Washington, D.C. (USA)
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Lane's formidable 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 where he would take on all comers. He also wrestled professionally under the name "Tarzan Mike" in 1952–1959.Lane was discovered by Columbia Pictures and made his acting debut in The Harder They Fall.
Lane was given dramatic and boxing lessons to appear as the giant Toro Moreno, an outclassed boxer based on Primo Carnera.
Lane made numerous television appearances including a regular role as Frank N. Stein in The Monster Squad.
On November 25, 1958, in the episode "The Hunted" of the ABC/Warner Brothers western series Sugarfoot, starring Will Hutchins in the title role, Lane plays a former soldier, John Allman, who has become mentally unbalanced as a result of the terror of an Apache attack on his United States Army unit. Despite the efforts of a sympathetic Sugarfoot, Allman engages in bank robbery and murder and is tracked down by an impatient posse led by Clay Calhoun (R.G. Armstrong). Francis De Sales appears as Major Sterling in the episode, which is based on a story in True West Magazine.
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Zebra Force (1976)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Mike Lane, Richard X. Slattery, Lindsay Crosby, Rockne Tarkington, George Buck Flower, Timothy Brown
Roles Carmine Longo
Rating46%
The film opens with a raid on an illegal casino performed by a group of blacks with automatic weapons. The audience discovers the perpetrators are white disguised as blacks. The story moves to a Vietnam War flashbacks with a patrol being ambushed by the Vietcong, and the resulting firefight. The leader of the vigilante veterans is a man known simply as the Lieutenant who was their platoon leader and disfigured in the action. Recuperating in a hospital he regroups the survivors for a series of escalating raids to not only to enrich themselves, but to wipe out organised criminal gangs involved in illegal gambling and narcotics distribution.
Gone with the West (1975)
, 1h32Directed by Bernard Girard
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors James Caan, Stefanie Powers, Aldo Ray, Barbara Werle, Robert Walker Jr., Sammy Davis Jr.
Roles Shark
Rating31%
Jud McGraw gets out of prison and seeks revenge against Mimmo, a man who wronged him. He meets Little Moon, a woman who also has good reason to go looking for justice.
The Master Gunfighter (1975)
, 2h1Directed by Tom Laughlin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime, Western
Actors Tom Laughlin, Ron O'Neal, Barbara Carrera, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Burgess Meredith, Mike Lane
Roles Frewen
Rating45%
The film is set in southern California near Santa Barbara shortly after California became part of the United States. American settlers and the U.S. government discriminated against the Mexican landowners and frequently took their land by force or legal skullduggery. The film focuses on wealthy Latino ranchers whose land and wealth are at risk. They decide to misdirect a U.S. government ship carrying gold so that it will be wrecked and plundered. To prevent themselves from being caught, they plan to massacre the local Chumash Indians. The hero is the now-estranged adoptive son (Finley), a master swordsman and gunfighter, who tries to prevent this while still saving his family.
A Name for Evil (1973)
, 1h14Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Samantha Eggar, Robert Culp, Mike Lane, Rene Bond
Roles Fats
Rating39%
Dissatisfied with the family architectural business, a man and his wife pack up and move out to his great-grandfather's old house in the country. While trying to patch it up, the house starts to make it clear to him that it doesn't want him there, but the local church (with some off-kilter practices of their own) seems to take a shine to him...
The No Mercy Man (1973)
, 1h31Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Political films
Actors Sid Haig, Rockne Tarkington, Carol Locatell, Ron Thompson, Steve Sandor, Mike Lane
Roles Big Jack
Rating45%
Prophet and his friends are carnies and itinerant criminals in Arizona. After robbing a liquor store Prophet and a friend evade the local Sheriff and stop at the ranch of Mark Hand, a decorated war veteran. Feeling suspicious, Mark tells Prophet he can help himself to water at a pump behind the house but covers him with a rifle. Prophet's friend overpowers Mark from behind, ties him up and beats him prior to robbing Mark's house. Attracted by the mass amount of firearms in Mark's cabinet, they are distracted by Mark's daughter Mary who Prophet's friend attempts to rape. Mary wounds him with a knife and escapes in the desert coming across the car returning home driven by Mrs Hand and Mary's brother Olie who has returned from the Vietnam War with decorations and mental illnesses. Prophet and his friend make their escape with Mark puzzled that Olie doesn't want to hunt the criminals, preferring to let the sheriff handle the matter.
Stay Away, Joe (1968)
, 1h42Directed by Peter Tewksbury
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Action, Musical, Romance, Western
Themes Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Joan Blondell, Burgess Meredith, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez, Henry Jones
Roles Frank Hawk (as Michael Lane)
Rating45%
Elvis Presley stars as Native American rodeo rider Joe Lightcloud, a Navajo whose family still lives on the reservation. He returns to the reservation in a white Cadillac convertible with which he proceeds to drive cattle.
The Way West (1967)
, 2h2Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Jack Elam, Sally Field
Roles Sioux Chief (as Michael Lane)
Rating61%
U.S. Senator William Tadlock (Kirk Douglas) is leaving his home in Missouri in 1843, heading west on the Oregon Trail by wagon train. His son and slave come along, with Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) as a hired guide.
, 1h45Directed by Mario Caiano, Gérard Ducaux-Rupp
Origin Italie
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films based on mythology, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Dans la Grèce mythologique, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Georges Marchal, Alessandra Panaro, Dominique Boschero, Gabriele Tinti, Mike Lane, Raffaella Carrà
Roles Ercole
Rating50%
En découvrant l'audace d'Ulysse, les dieux sont mécontents. Ils décident d'envoyer Hercule pour tenter de le faire revenir à la raison. Les deux hommes deviennent amis et vivent mille dangers, particulièrement pour sauver Hélène, la fiancée d'Hercule, qui a été enlevée par Adraste, son prétendant...
Valley of the Dragons (1961)
, 1h22Directed by Edward Bernds
Genres Science fiction
Actors Cesare Danova, Sean McClory, Joan Staley, Danielle De Metz, I. Stanford Jolley, Mike Lane
Roles Anoka
Rating49%
Two men preparing for duel in 1881 Algiers, American Michael Denning and Frenchman Hector Servadac, are swept from the face of the Earth by a passing comet and find themselves on another world with cavemen and prehistoric animals. They try to find a way back to Earth. (Servadac is the only one of 36 characters retained from the original novel.)
Who Was That Lady? (1960)
, 1h55Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Tony Curtis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh, James Whitmore, John McIntire, Barbara Nichols
Roles Glinka
Rating65%
College chemistry professor David Wilson is caught by his wife in his lab, kissing another woman. Ann Wilson immediately wants a divorce.
Frankenstein 1970 (1958)
, 1h23Directed by Howard W. Koch
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Boris Karloff, Don "Red" Barry, Mike Lane
Roles Hans Himmler / The Monster
Rating49%
Boris Karloff plays the role of Baron Victor von Frankenstein, who suffered torture and disfigurement at the hands of the Nazis as punishment for not cooperating with them during World War II. Horribly disfigured, he nevertheless continues his work as a scientist. Needing funds to support his experiments, the Baron allows a television crew to shoot a made-for-television horror film about his monster-making family at his castle in Germany.
The Harder They Fall (1956)
, 1h48Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Max Baer Jr., Mike Lane, Nehemiah Persoff
Roles Toro Moreno
Rating74%
Sportswriter Eddie Willis (Humphrey Bogart) is broke after the newspaper he works for goes under. He is hired by crooked boxing promoter Nick Benko (Rod Steiger) to publicize his new boxer, a huge, but slow-witted and untalented Argentinian named Toro Moreno (Mike Lane).
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Grotesque (1988)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Linda Blair, Tab Hunter, Luana Patten, Donna Wilkes, Guy Stockwell, Charles Dierkop
Roles Producer
Rating43%
During Lisa (Linda Blair) and her friend Kathy's (Donna Wilkes) vacation at her parents home in the snowy mountains, a group of punks break in to rob them. The gang murder the family until only Lisa is left alive. Lisa's adopted brother Patrick (Bob Apiza), a mutant hunchback who was hidden away, attacks the gang until he is killed by the police which results in his father Rod (Tab Hunter), a plastic surgeon, seeking revenge on the final two gang members.