NFL Hall of Famer Dick Lane’s sons have teamed up to bring their father’s documentary “Train: The Dick “Night Train” Lane Story.
The documentary mainly focuses on Dick’s life in Austin, Texas.
A 114-minute-long documentary took four years to get filmed, and it debuted at the American Black Film Festival in Miami Beach last year.
As per the reports, a screening will take place on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in conjunction with the kickoff of the Original L.C. Anderson High School’s 12th annual all-school reunion.
Screening begins 6:30 p.m. at Austin Film Society Cinema, 6259 Middle Fiskville Road.
Diehard NFL fans are familiar with Lane’s story, but if the documentary is sold and distributed, casual observers will be treated to his incredible rise from near-death in infancy to the pinnacle of his profession.
Dick Lane’s Son, Richard Ladimir Lane, Is The Only African-American Catholic Lay Evangelist
In 1964, Dick Lane married schoolteacher Mary Cowser, who later became the first African American woman to appear in Coca-Cola advertisements.
Together, they had a son named Richard Ladimir Lane, 60, in 1965.
According to his official LinkedIn profile, he graduated from Morehouse College in 1984 with a degree in mass communications.
From 2008 to 2009, he served as a speaker at Real Catholic Men. Later, he founded Richard Lane Ministries in January 2005 and became the only African-American Catholic Lay Evangelist.
Since then, he has traveled the world speaking at Men’s Conferences, leading Parish Missions, Revivals, and ministering to tens of thousands of people.
He has been featured numerous times on all Major Catholic Radio Networks, including EWTN’s The Journey Home. He has produced and hosted his own EWTN mini-series entitled “New Wine in New Wineskins.”
Since October 2021, Lane has been serving as the director of evangelization at St. Patrick of Heatherdowns Parish.
NFL Hall Of Famer Dick Lane Had Another Son, Richard Andrew Walker, And One Stepson, Bobby Grayson
Hall of Famer Dick Lane had a son named Richard Andrew Walker with his other wife, whose identity has not been revealed.
While Walker has stayed away from the media spotlight, he is working with his brother, Richard Lane, to produce a documentary about his father’s life.
Walker met some of his half-brothers for the first time at Dick Lane’s funeral in 2002, which sparked their collaboration and the documentary project.
Additionally, Dick shared a stepson, Bobby Grayson, with his former wife Dinah Washington, a jazz singer.
Dinah was an American singer and pianist, one of the most famous black female recording artists of the 1950s. She was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame in 1986.
Sadly, she passed away on December 14, 1963, at the age of 39.
Some sources claimed that Bobby passed away in April 2020 at 71 due to the complications of COVID-19.
In Case You Didn’t Know
- After retiring from professional football, Dick Lane worked for the Detroit Lions in various administrative positions from 1966 to 1972. Then he held assistant coaching positions at Southern University and Central State University.
- Lane married his first wife, Geraldine Dandrige, in April 1951. The couple separated in August 1962 and were divorced in January 1963.
- In August 2006, Lane became one of eight charter inductees into the Arizona Cardinals’ Ring of Honor.
- In 2020, Lane was named to the NFL’s 100th Anniversary All-Time Team.
