Lance Vane 1874 -1942 was a colourful stage and screen actor. He was part of the famous S.A. Fitzgerald family of actors, movie producers, screen stars and vaudevillians. His brother Jim Gerald was the most successful in the family, yet Lance Vane, with his considerable canon of work in movies and on stage, contributed in no small way to the family's overall success.

 

Lance became a Freemason in 1922, the only member of the Fitzgerald family to do so. His Masonic journey began  in Brisbane and concluded in Sydney where he spent most of his productive years.

 

Married late in life to an English divorcee with a teenage protogé, his marriage was short-lived.

 

Attempts to follow his successful wife and stepdaughter to Hollywood and star in movies came to nothing. Lance managed to land a part in a Pasadena Play House production, but without being "discovered" in America, chose to return Down Under where he was better known and where he would find support from his famous brother Jim Gerald as a co-producer.

 

Follow Lance's adventures on stage and in movies, some produced by his talented father, the great S.A. Fitzgerald, director of Robbery Under Arms, and other classic Australian silent movies...