Dog Day Afternoon, 1975

Lance had a small role in Sydney Lumet's Dog Day Afternoon with Al Pacino and John Cazale.

"It was my first real movie. I was excited to be there. Oh yeah, oh sure, man, I was bitten so bad it was like getting bit by a 90 pound mosquito. I didn't wanna live any other way after that."

"Dog Day Afternoon was my first real movie and I played the guy that shot the guy at the airport.  And for years people in restaurants [would spot him], I'd look up and there'd be a guy giving like this [making to shoot him] to me.  They hated me in that movie."  Lance told Vicki Gabereau in 2000.

"The role I wanted to play was the Chris Sarandon role, the transvestite.  So I went in and I started reading and Sydney looked at me and said, "Nooo, you're not going to do that role, but you can do Murphy." 

Interview in FilmThreat, June 1995

Fan Review:

DOG DAY AFTERNOON: LH plays an FBI agent who is chosen to drive Al Pacino's limo to the airport. Talk about Lance the invisible-he purposefully kept a straight face all through his stint on screen. The way they worked him subtlely into our(the audience's) consciousness was to have him stand in the background during the conversation between Al and Chris Sarandon's character(if I remember correctly) barely visible. Then, with each appearance, become more apparent yet still in the background until finally he is pulled right into the thick of things when Sonny choses him to drive. LH's character does this mind control thing to Sonny's partner that just blows me away after irritating the heck out of me. Scarey. In addition to Murphy, earlier in the movie,LH does a very short stint as a uniformed cop who pushes Maria's boy friend into the police car.