Actress Sara Lane, who played the character Elizabeth Grainger for four seasons on the classic series ‘The Man from Virginia,’ died on Friday (3/3), after a six-year battle with breast cancer. She was 73 years old.
Susan Russell Lane (her real name) was born on March 12, 1949 in New York. Her parents, Rusty Lane (“The Tragic Hoax”) and Sara Anderson (“Blood on the Beach”), were also actors. She started her career acting in commercials.
Her debut in fiction took place in 1965, when the director and producer William Castle (“A Casa dos Maus Espíritos”) saw her in one of those commercials and called her to participate in the horror film “Eu Vi que Foi Você”, from teenager who made prank calls.
Already the following year, he began to play his best-known role.
Created by Charles Marquis Warren (“Gunsmoke”), “The Man from Virginia” depicted the routine of a group of cowboys and their families on a ranch in Wyoming in the 1890s.
Lane joined the western in its fifth season in 1966, along with two other new members: Charles Bickford, who played his grandfather, John Grainger, the new owner of the Shiloh ranch, and Don Quine, who played his older brother, Stacey Grainger .
In all, she appeared in 105 episodes of the series, running through 1970.
After leaving the series, Sara changed her stage name to Russell Lane and appeared in the films “Schoolgirls in Chains” (1973), and in two feature films of the Billy Jack franchise, “The Trial of Billy Jack” ( 1974) and “Billy Jack”. Jack Goes to Washington” (1977).
Later, she retired from acting and started a winery together with her husband, Jon Scott.
Source: Terra
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