Byron Kane
Birthday: Born in 1923-05-08 in St. Albans, Vermont, USA
Deathday: 1984-04-09
Byron Kane was born on May 9, 1923 in St. Albans, Vermont (USA) as Byron Harold Kaplan. He was a producer and actor, known for The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Peter Gunn (1958) and Hawaiian Eye (1959). He died on April 10, 1984 in Los Angeles, California (USA).
TV Credits
The Twilight Zone
Character: Assistant (uncredited)
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist....
The Hardy Boys
Character: Joe Hardy / Fenton Hardy (voice)
The Hardy Boys is an animated series, produced by Filmation and aired Saturday mornings on ABC in 1969. It featured the Hardy Boys, Joe and Frank, along with their friends Chubby Morton, Wanda Kay Breckenridge, and Pete Jones touring as a rock band while solving mysteries. The series is also notable for its opening and closing credits, which the Hardys appeared in live action. The series debuted at the same time as Hanna-Barbera's similarly themed Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, which was scheduled ...
I Love Lucy
Character: Man On Train #2 (uncredited)
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends....
I Love Lucy
Character: Morris Williams
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends....
Movie Credits
Without Warning!
Character: Police Chemist Charlie Wilkins
Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of garden shears...
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Character: Secretary of State
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all....
Gog
Character: Dr. Carter
A mechanical brain is programmed to sabotage the government's secret lab while working on the first space station....
Tales of Washington Irving
Character: Rip Van Winkle / Baltus Van Tassel (voice)
This 1970 animated special contains two versions of Washington Irving's most popular stories; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - about the headless horseman (who makes a too brief appearance), and Rip Van Winkle - the man who fell asleep and awoke years later. It originally aired on TV between Halloween and Thanksgiving in the early 1970s and was later released on VHS home video by MGM in 1987 but it's currently out of print....
Lady Sings the Blues
Character: The Announcer
Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic youth. The story depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay, her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life....
Divorce American Style
Character: Husband (uncredited)
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce....
A Dream Called Walt Disney World
Character: Narrator
The perfect way to reminisce about your Walt Disney World vacation! It's all here, exquisitely photographed and fully narrated. From Liberty Square to Fantasyland, the file covers every part of the Magic Kingdom. There's much more, though... an entire resort playground with all the luxurious resort hotels and rustic campgrounds that make up the Vacation Kingdom. Here's a beautiful souvenir of the single most popular vacation destination in the world!...
Vice Squad
Character: Prof. Bruno Varney (uncredited)
A Los Angeles police captain (Edward G. Robinson) ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day....
The Lady from Shanghai
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife....
The Big Heat
Character: Police Surgeon (uncredited)
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate....
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ....
The Monster That Challenged the World
Character: Coroner Nate Brown
Giants Mollusks are released from the earth by an earthquake and start killing people....
Tea and Sympathy
Character: Tennis Umpire
A sensitive young man recalls his time in boarding school when the only person who seemed compassionate towards him was his housemaster's wife....
Shinbone Alley
Character: Newspaperman (voice)
Suicidal poet Archy tries to end his life by jumping off a bridge, but awakens to find he has assumed the life of a cockroach and has become a part of a community of creatures living in a newspaper office. He also discovers that he can still write poetry, using a typewriter, and begins to enjoy his new life. Archy develops deep feelings for the lovely but self-destructive cat Mehitabel, but will have to fight to win her from bad-boy tomcat Bill....
S.O.B.
Character: Funeral Director
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off....
High Time
Character: Professor (Uncredited)
Despite the dissapproval of his grown son and daughter, 51-year-old widdower and wealthy restauranteur Harvey Howard decides it's 'high time' to he gets his college degree. And he's in for the full ride: living in the dorms, joing a fraternity, falling in love, and even getting some studying in....