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1909 – 1973
The tie, exactly: Allan Lane was born Harry Leonard Albershardt — the surname also stands as Albershart, the spelling he himself used in an October 1940 signature, per the genealogical record — on September 22, 1909, in Mishawaka, in Penn Township. The date is printed with its conflict: an IMDb biography note reports that some sources claim a 1904 birth year; 1909 is the record date the standard references carry. He grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, so the tie is birth and earliest childhood, not a Mishawaka raising, and it is printed at that strength.
The course: The obituary record credits Lane with varsity baseball, basketball and football at the University of Notre Dame — a Bend connection beyond his birth, carried here at the obituary's strength. He went into pictures in 1929 and played more than a hundred screen roles: leading man in serials and programmers, then, at Republic Pictures, the Red Ryder series in 1946–47, and then the long run of "Rocky" Lane westerns that fixed his billing name. His last role was his most heard and least seen: from 1961 to 1966 he was the uncredited voice of Mister Ed, the talking horse — the Mishawaka-born voice inside one of American television's best-remembered gags. He died of cancer on October 27, 1973, at Woodland Hills, California, aged 64, and received a posthumous TV Land Award in 2003.
Sources:
- Wikipedia, "Allan Lane," read November 2026 (birth at Mishawaka; Red Ryder and Rocky Lane series; Mister Ed; death)
- Legacy.com obituary record (Notre Dame varsity sports); WikiTree genealogical record (the Albershart signature, October 1940); IMDb biography note (the 1904 claim — conflict printed)