The Canadian performer had early roles on 'Mannix' and 'The Mod Squad' before starring in homegrown movies and TV shows.
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., a stand-on part that led to key roles in six episodes of the series about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Two years later, Dane went to Toronto to play a young convict on the CBC drama, and in 1965 the Canadian actor first went to Los Angeles to try his luck in Hollywood. At 6′ 1″ in size and broad-shouldered, Dane realized his immediate future lay in playing bad guys in U.S. series, which he did on“If I’d been short and cherubic, I would have starved to death. There are only two major parts on any television show, the hero and the villain. The economics of the medium don’t allow for anything else,” Dane told a 1976 profile in
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