according to Variety.Lane shot to prominence after appearing in Richard Roundtree’s classic crime film “Shaft” — widely perceived as one of the most important films of the 1970s. Indiewire declared the movie “changed history” as it proved “a black film made by a black director for a black audience could be a huge hit.”Lane had a small part in the film, playing Leroy, a character who crashed through protagonist and private eye John Shaft’s office window.