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Lupino Lane (16 June 1892 – 10 November 1959) was an English actor and theatre manager, and a member of the famous Lupino family. Lane started out as a child performer, known as 'Little Nipper', and went on to appear in a wide range of theatrical, music hall and film performances. He is best known for playing Bill Snibson in the play and film ''Me and My Girl'', which popularised ''The Lambeth Walk''.〔''Oxford Dictionary of Biography'' "Lupino Lane"〕 == Early life and career == Lane was born Henry William George Lupino, in Hackney, London, son of Harry Charles Lupino (1867–1925), part of the Lupino family. He adopted the surname Lane from his great-aunt Sarah Lane (1822–1899, née Borrow), the director of the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton.〔 Lane married actress Violet Blythe on 10 February 1917, and their son was the actor Lauri Lupino Lane (1921–86).〔(NNDB "Lupino Lane" )〕 Lane's brother was the actor Wallace Lupino, and his nephew, Wallace's son, was another actor, Richard Lupino. Lane's niece, Ida Lupino, the daughter of actors Stanley Lupino〔''Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Britain'' "Lupino" accessed through Ebbsco 17 June〕 and Connie Emerald (1892–1959), was the most famous member of this acting family. Lane made his first stage appearance at the age of four in a benefit in Birmingham for Vesta Tilley. He made his London début in 1903 as Nipper Lane at the London Pavilion.〔 He worked steadily as a performer thereafter. In 1915, he appeared at the Empire Theatre and played comic roles in theatre and film on both sides of the Atlantic from then on. In 1921, he dived through seventy-four stage traps in six minutes while performing in a 1921 pantomime production of ''Aladdin'' at the Hippodrome.〔〔''Daily Graphic'', 8 January 1921〕 Lane and his wife Violet Blythe were both in the Broadway production of the musical ''Afgar'', at the Central Theatre, in 1920–21, and he appeared in the ''Ziegfeld Follies of 1924'' at the New Amsterdam Theatre, from June 1924 to March 1925, and subsequently played Ko-Ko in ''The Mikado'' on Broadway in 1925, receiving good reviews.〔 Lane's silent film career started in 1915 in a series of British short films, including the experimental ''Mr Butterbuns'' series. As a comedy actor, he appeared in 40 Hollywood films made in the 1920s.〔 After several shorts and features for Fox in 1922–23, Lane appeared as Rudolph in D. W. Griffith's 1924 feature ''Isn't Life Wonderful?.'' He signed with Educational Pictures for a series of short comedies that featured his acrobatic flips and falls. Roscoe Arbuckle was one of his directors, but Lane was soon directing the films himself under the pseudonym "Henry W. George" (his given names). These comedies displayed Lane's agility and versatility: in one film he played 24 characters (''Only Me'', 1929). Lane's brother Wallace Lupino, who usually co-starred in Lane's comedies, also starred in his own comedies, of which only three are known to survive. (Archivist Ben Model discovered one of them and posted it on YouTube.) Lupino Lane made the transition to talking pictures, starring in a few sound shorts for Educational and making a guest appearance in the Warner Bros. feature ''The Show of Shows''. He also played a major role in the 1929 musical film ''The Love Parade'', but within two years he left Hollywood for his native England. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lupino Lane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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