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Lane Smith: Works & Career

Walter Lane Smith III (April 29, 1936 – June 13, 2005) was an American actor. His well-known roles included newspaper editor Perry White in the ABC series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, collaborator entrepreneur Nathan Bates in the 1984 NBC television series V, Mayor Bates in the film Red Dawn, Coach Jack Reilly in The Mighty Ducks…

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Lane Smith topic overview

The analysis highlights Works and Career as prominent areas in the source structure around Lane Smith.

Related topics
63
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
67
Extracted relationships
21
Related term clusters
12
Bridge connections
67

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Career · 36 topics
Overview · 13 topics
Early life · 10 topics
Death · 4 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Known for
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Occupation
Actor
Born
Walter Lane Smith III (1936-04-29)April 29, 1936 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Children
3
Died
June 13, 2005(2005-06-13) (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active
1966–2005

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Overview

Early life

Career

Death

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Lane Smith connects Entity context

The extracted context around Lane Smith shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Lane Smith → Actors Studio, Al Pacino, Army, Dustin Hoffman, Fame, Glen Arbor, Hall, Hill School, Leelanau School, Memphis, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Pottstown, Smith, Tennessee Another extracted example is Lane Smith → Walter Lane Smith III (1936-04-29)April 29, 1936 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Lane Smith

Top relations

related to Early life · 15
Lane Smith → Actors Studio, Al Pacino, Army, Dustin Hoffman, Fame, Glen Arbor, Hall, Hill School, Leelanau School, Memphis, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Pottstown, Smith, Tennessee
Born · 1
Lane Smith → Walter Lane Smith III (1936-04-29)April 29, 1936 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Children · 1
Lane Smith → 3
Died · 1
Lane Smith → June 13, 2005(2005-06-13) (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Known for · 1
Lane Smith → Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Occupation · 1
Lane Smith → Actor
Years active · 1
Lane Smith → 1966–2005

Important terminology

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Important terminology

smith film television new nixon final also 2005 lois clark adventures superman richard days appeared played lane roles years actor

Lane Smith relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 21 structured relationships around Lane Smith. Examples in this analysis include Lane Smith → Born → Walter Lane Smith III (1936-04-29)April 29, 1936 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. and Lane Smith → Children → 3. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Lane SmithBornWalter Lane Smith III (1936-04-29)April 29, 1936 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.1.00infobox
Lane SmithChildren31.00infobox
Lane SmithDiedJune 13, 2005(2005-06-13) (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, U.S.1.00infobox
Lane SmithKnown forLois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman1.00infobox
Lane SmithOccupationActor1.00infobox
Lane SmithYears active1966–20051.00infobox
Lane Smithrelated to Early lifeMemphis0.60section
Lane Smithrelated to Early lifeTennessee0.60section
Lane Smithrelated to Early lifeLeelanau School0.60section
Lane Smithrelated to Early lifeGlen Arbor0.60section
Lane Smithrelated to Early lifeMichigan0.60section
Lane Smithrelated to Early lifeHill School0.60section

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Lane Smith bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Actor, April and June. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Lane Smith
    • Actor
    • April
    • June
    • Walter
    • Smith
    • Appeared
    • Nixon
    • Television
    • Film
    • Days
    • Playing
    • Richard
  • lane smith
    • Actor
    • April
    • June
    • Walter
    • Smith
    • Appeared
    • Nixon
    • Television
    • Film
    • Days
    • Playing
    • Richard
  • lois & clark: the new adventures of superman
    • Adventures
    • Clark
    • Lois
    • Superman
    • Perry
    • White
    • New
    • Film
    • Television
    • Coach
    • Dawn
    • Ducks
  • new york yankees
    • Adventures
    • Superman
    • Perry
    • White
    • Film
    • Television
    • Coach
    • Dawn
    • Ducks
    • Jack
    • Mighty
    • Red
  • perry white
    • Perry
    • White
    • Adventures
    • Clark
    • Lois
    • Superman
    • New
    • Coach
    • Dawn
    • Ducks
    • Jack
    • Mighty
  • the mighty ducks
    • Ducks
    • Jack
    • Mighty
    • Reilly
    • Perry
    • Red
    • Series
    • White
    • Lois
    • Role
    • Roles
    • States
  • red dawn
    • Dawn
    • Red
    • Series
    • Roles
    • Television
    • Coach
    • Ducks
    • Jack
    • Mighty
    • Perry
    • Reilly
    • White
  • the final days
    • Richard
    • Days
    • Final
    • Nixon
    • Lois
    • Superman
    • Years
    • New
    • Television
    • Film
    • Smith

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Lane Smith, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Lane Smith with Career. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Lane Smith — Career · splits 31 ⟂ 37
Lane Smith — Overview · splits 54 ⟂ 14
Lane Smith — Early life · splits 57 ⟂ 11
Lane Smith — Death · splits 63 ⟂ 5

Map overview Semantic statistics

Lane Smith

Nodes68
Edges67
Triples21
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.029412
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Lane Smith to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works & Career, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Lane Smith · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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