Lane Smith (left) with Jeff Yagher in 'V: The Betrayal'
Lane Smith (1936 - 2005)
Film Deaths[]
- Prison (1988) [Warden Eaton Sharpe]: Electrocuted (to the point he bursts into flames) when Kane Hodder's spirit possessing his reanimated electrified corpse strikes his getaway car sending a live current into it, making the car eventually explode (as Viggo Mortensen looks on).
TV Deaths[]
- Kojak: Queen of the Gypsies (1975) [Clyde Regan]: Killed in a shootout with Kevin Dobson.
- Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981 TV) [Harliss Hocker]: Shredded to death when Larry Drake (aka The Scarecrow) suddenly turns on a wood chipper and then tosses Hocker into it.
- V: The Betrayal (1985) [Nathan Bates]: Shot in the chest by Aki Aleong, while Lane is trying to leave the hospital with his son (Jeff Yagher).
- The Twilight Zone: Profile in Silver (1986) [Prof. Joseph Fitzgerald]: Shot to death by Lee Harvey Oswald (played by an extra) in order to save John F. Kennedy (Andrew Robinson) after his first attempt to save Kennedy nearly caused World War III.