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Lupino Lane
Henry William George Lupino (16 June 1892 – 10 November 1959), known professionally as Lupino Lane, was an English actor and theatre manager, and a member of the famous theatrical Lupino family, which eventually included his cousin, the screenwriter/director/actress Ida Lupino. 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.
Lupino Lane is best known in the United Kingdom for playing Bill Snibson in the play and film Me and My Girl, which popularized the song-and-dance routine "The Lambeth Walk". In America he is remembered as an acrobatic star of silent comedy shorts produced between 1925 and 1929. Lane was especially well suited to physical comedy because he was double-jointed, and his limber frame was capable of performing dazzling acrobatics. One of his unique feats had him sitting or reclining on the floor, and suddenly thrusting his legs forward and leaping to his feet (as seen in his 1927 short Hello Sailor).
Lane married actress Violet Blythe on 10 February 1917, and their son was the actor Lauri Lupino Lane (1921–1986).[citation needed] Lane's brothers were the actors Wallace Lupino and Stanley Lupino, and his nephew (Wallace's son) was another actor, Richard Lupino.
Lane was born in Hackney, London, son of Harry Charles Lupino (1867–1925), part of the Hook family who adopted the surname 'Lupino.' His great-aunt Sarah Lane (1822–1899, née Borrow), the director of the Britannia Theatre in Hoxton, did not want her name to die out and prevailed upon young Henry to take the Lane name.
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. The Nipper name stuck, and for the rest of his life his friends and family addressed him as Nip.
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 sixty three stage traps in six minutes while performing in a 1921 pantomime production of Aladdin at the Hippodrome. 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. In 1929 Lane told a reporter that Ko-Ko was his favorite role.
Lane's silent film career started in 1915, at age 23, in a series of British short films, including the experimental Mr Butterbuns series.[citation needed] As a comedian, 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?
Earle Hammons of silent-comedy studio Educational Pictures signed Lupino Lane in 1925. Hammons sent his chief producer Jack White to see Lane on stage: "He was working in New York in The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan. I went backstage to see him after the show was over and we got to know each other fairly well," recalled White. Lane starred in a series of short comedies that featured his acrobatic flips and falls. Lane's co-star was usually his brother, Wallace Lupino. Wallace also starred in his own comedies, only three of which are known to survive. (Archivist Ben Model discovered one of them and posted it on YouTube.)
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Lupino Lane
Henry William George Lupino (16 June 1892 – 10 November 1959), known professionally as Lupino Lane, was an English actor and theatre manager, and a member of the famous theatrical Lupino family, which eventually included his cousin, the screenwriter/director/actress Ida Lupino. 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.
Lupino Lane is best known in the United Kingdom for playing Bill Snibson in the play and film Me and My Girl, which popularized the song-and-dance routine "The Lambeth Walk". In America he is remembered as an acrobatic star of silent comedy shorts produced between 1925 and 1929. Lane was especially well suited to physical comedy because he was double-jointed, and his limber frame was capable of performing dazzling acrobatics. One of his unique feats had him sitting or reclining on the floor, and suddenly thrusting his legs forward and leaping to his feet (as seen in his 1927 short Hello Sailor).
Lane married actress Violet Blythe on 10 February 1917, and their son was the actor Lauri Lupino Lane (1921–1986).[citation needed] Lane's brothers were the actors Wallace Lupino and Stanley Lupino, and his nephew (Wallace's son) was another actor, Richard Lupino.
Lane was born in Hackney, London, son of Harry Charles Lupino (1867–1925), part of the Hook family who adopted the surname 'Lupino.' His great-aunt Sarah Lane (1822–1899, née Borrow), the director of the Britannia Theatre in Hoxton, did not want her name to die out and prevailed upon young Henry to take the Lane name.
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. The Nipper name stuck, and for the rest of his life his friends and family addressed him as Nip.
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 sixty three stage traps in six minutes while performing in a 1921 pantomime production of Aladdin at the Hippodrome. 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. In 1929 Lane told a reporter that Ko-Ko was his favorite role.
Lane's silent film career started in 1915, at age 23, in a series of British short films, including the experimental Mr Butterbuns series.[citation needed] As a comedian, 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?
Earle Hammons of silent-comedy studio Educational Pictures signed Lupino Lane in 1925. Hammons sent his chief producer Jack White to see Lane on stage: "He was working in New York in The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan. I went backstage to see him after the show was over and we got to know each other fairly well," recalled White. Lane starred in a series of short comedies that featured his acrobatic flips and falls. Lane's co-star was usually his brother, Wallace Lupino. Wallace also starred in his own comedies, only three of which are known to survive. (Archivist Ben Model discovered one of them and posted it on YouTube.)
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