Lane Davies
American actor
Lane Davies (born July 31, 1950) is an American actor.
Personal life
Davies was born in Dalton, Georgia, the son of Emily and Bill Davies. He has three brothers—Bruce, George, and Whit. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with cum laude honors for his degree in speech and theater. Currently, he resides in Georgia with his family. He has two sons, Nathan Hamilton and Thatcher Lee.
Stage roles
On stage, Davies has worked with such companies as the Trinity Square Repertory Company of Providence, Rhode Island; Atlanta's Alliance Theater; Houston's Alley Theatre; The Old Globe Theater in San Diego; the Georgia Shakespeare Festival; and the Globe Playhouse in Los Angeles, as well as with the two companies he founded and co-founded. His classical credits include Henry V, Mark Antony, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Orlando, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Richard III, as well as the direction of several productions.
Some of his more contemporary work includes: John Barrymore in "I Hate Hamlet", Sweeney Todd, Henry Higgins, Boolie in Driving Miss Daisy, David Crockett in the highly acclaimed Crockett By Himself, Slim in Of Mice and Men and William Desmond Taylor in a revival of Mack and Mabel, and 6 productions of "Man of La Mancha" as Cervantes/Quixote.
Davies also played the lead in such plays as Hamlet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew and Cyrano de Bergerac at Thad Taylor's Globe Playhouse.
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