LOS ANGELES – Lane Smith (search), a longtime character actor who played a small-town district attorney who clashed with Joe Pesci in "My Cousin Vinny (search)," died Monday. He was 69.

Yes, it's the 25th anniversary of "My Cousin Vinny." The 1992 film starred Joe Pesci as Vincent LaGuardia Gambini, ... played by the late Fred Gwynne and Lane Smith, respectively.

Will Smith was up for the role of Stan Rothenstein in My Cousin Vinny. Mitchell Whitfield had just moved to Los Angeles from New York when he got word about the My Cousin Vinny auditions—which ...

If you compare My Cousin Vinny against the other movies in 1992 that earned Oscars, such as Scent of a Woman, ... Lane Smith tells the story of the robbery in simple, concrete terms, ...

“Watch this,” Joe Pesci’s Vinny Gambini says about his surprise witness fiancee during the climax of “My Cousin Vinny” — which marks its 25th anniversary on Monday. What comes next is ...

With such canny scene-stealers as Gwynne, Lane Smith, Austin Pendleton, Bruce McGill and Maury Chaykin filling out the cast, it is very hard for ”My Cousin Vinny” to go wrong, and indeed, for ...

Lane Smith, who played Nixon in ... popular “The Mighty Ducks,” a politician in Eddie Murphy’s “The Distinguished Gentleman” and a lawyer in “My Cousin Vinny,” all released in 1992. ...

Hear a podcast from Director Jonathan Lynn speaking about the making of his 1992 comedy, My Cousin Vinny , and see ... (Fred Gwynne) who may be onto him, and a smooth talking district attorney (Lane ...