Davies also played the lead in such plays as Hamlet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew and Cyrano de Bergerac at Thad Taylor's Globe Playhouse. He co-starred with Matthew Faison in a revival of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, playing Rosencrantz. He has directed a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Davies founded the Santa Susana Repertory Company, a nonprofit professional theatre company dedicated to cultural enrichment of the community through the presentation of outstanding plays and musicals from the repertories of American and world classics. He also co-founded the Kingsmen Shakespeare Company in cooperation with California Lutheran University. Kingsmen Shakespeare Company was listed, in 2004, as a Major Festival in the book Shakespeare Festivals Around the World by Marcus D. Gregio (Editor). In 2007-2008, Davies founded the Tennessee Shakespeare Festival in Bell Buckle, TN, as a professional summer company. Its first production was Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (one of Davies' favorites) set in Athens, GA, instead of Athens, Greece. Lane is now involved in many productions in Middle Tennessee, including multiple performances with the Tennessee Repertory Theater in Nashville.
His film roles include The Magic of Lassie with James Stewart, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Mickey Rooney; Body Double with Melanie Griffith; Impure Thoughts with Brad Dourif; and Funland with David L. Lander, and william Windom. Davies is currently working on a film due for release in 2011 entitled The Royal Killer.
