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 the car sending a live current into it, making the car eventually explode (as Viggo Mortensen looks on).
TV Deaths
- Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981; TV film) [Harliss Hocker]: Dismembered when he falls into a broken but still working wood chipper when a scarecrow possessed by Larry Drake's ghost suddenly turns it on then knocks him from a hay loft ladder he is clinging to.
- 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.