1. 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".
20 Facts About Lupino Lane
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Lupino Lane was especially well suited to physical comedy because he was double-jointed, and his limber frame was capable of performing dazzling acrobatics.
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Lupino Lane made his first stage appearance at the age of four in a benefit in Birmingham for Vesta Tilley.
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Lupino Lane made his London debut in 1903 as Nipper Lane at the London Pavilion.
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In 1929 Lupino Lane told a reporter that Ko-Ko was his favorite role.
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Lupino Lane starred in a series of short comedies that featured his acrobatic flips and falls.
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Lupino Lane was a very difficult guy to make a movie with, because he disagreed with everything except what came from his head.
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Lupino Lane went on for a couple years, though [sic].
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Lupino Lane made the transition to talking pictures, his voice being a light, British-accented tenor.
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Lupino Lane was one of the first of Educational's stars to make talking two-reel comedies; his sound shorts alternated with silent shorts through the end of 1929.
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Lupino Lane played a major role in the 1929 musical film The Love Parade, and made a guest appearance in the Warner Bros.
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Lupino Lane's surprise swan song in America was a Vitaphone short called Evolution of the Dance, released in February 1930 as a two-reel Technicolor special, even though the running time barely exceeded one reel.
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The short is a pageant of performers offering different styles of dance; Lupino Lane leads a hobo ensemble.
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Lupino Lane made his first appearance as Bill Snibson in this production, in which Snibson, a racetrack tout, was a big hit.
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Lupino Lane directed and produced the show as well as starring in it for 1,550 performances between 1937 and 1940.
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Lupino Lane continued to act on stage and on television in England for the rest of his life.
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Lupino Lane failed to win the financial backing to refurbish it and sold it in 1950.
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Lupino Lane was the subject of This Is Your Life in March 1956 when he was surprised by host Eamonn Andrews at London's BBC Television Theatre.
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Lupino Lane appeared as the castaway on Desert Island Discs in 1957.
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Lupino Lane died on 10 November 1959, in London, at age 67 and is buried at Streatham Park Cemetery.