Lawrence Dane, a Canadian actor known for his television roles in Mod Squad, Mannix and Bargain before playing in local series like Side effects and The Red Green Show, is dead. He was 84 years old.
Dane died March 21 at his home in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., with his wife, Laurel, and family members by his side after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, his publicist said. . The Hollywood Reporter. Born on April 3, 1937 in Masson, Quebec, the youngest of six children in a Lebanese family, Dane grew up in Ottawa and took acting classes to overcome his shyness.
Turns out the craft got stuck with Dane. “Between that date and leaving the stage on (March 21, 2022), I had the good fortune to become a member of a highly respected brotherhood of Canadian artists where I was able to meet and work with hundreds of other actors. in trouble. They were all an inspiration to me,” he said in a self-written obituary that was released when he died.
In 1958, pioneering Canadian television producer Frank “Budge” Crawley hired Dane as an extra on a television series. RCMP., a starring role that led to key roles in six episodes of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police series. Two years later, Dane went to Toronto to play a young convict in the CBC drama Shadow of a pale horseand in 1965, the Canadian actor traveled to Los Angeles for the first time to try his luck in Hollywood.
At 6′ 1″ and broad-shouldered, Dane realized his immediate future was playing villains on American series, which he did on Bonanza, Mannix and The Mod Squad. “If I had been small and cherubic, I would have starved to death. There are only two main parts in a TV show, the hero and the villain. The media economy allows for nothing else,” Dane told a 1976 profile in Maclean’s magazine.
His other US TV credits included appearances on Mission: Impossible, The Virginian, The FBI and Lancer. And Dane’s movie credits included Seemed like a good idea at the time, rituals, running, Hedda Gablerby David Cronenberg Scanners, Millennium, it takes two and as a private detective, Lieutenant Preston in the 1998 horror comedy Bride of Chucky.
Dane eventually starred in a number of Canadian television shows, including Street Legal, ENG, La Femme Nikita and Breaking point. He also moved into production in the 1970s, which included projects like Gordon Pinsent’s screenplay of The thugthe comedy Only god knows and the 1977 independent film Ritualswhich starred Dane and Hal Holbrook.
Dane is survived by his wife Laurel Dane and extended family.
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