Dane Lanken (December 9, 1945 – March 3, 2023) was a Canadian journalist and author.
Lanken was a film critic for the Montreal Gazette from 1967 to 1977, and was then a freelance journalist who wrote regularly for Canadian Geographic,[1] among other publications such as Glengarry Life, the annual volume of the Glengarry Historical Society.
Lanken wrote Montreal Movie Palaces: Great Theatres of the Golden Era 1884 - 1938,[2] which includes photographs by Brian Merrett and Julie Greto.
In 2007 he wrote the career biography of folksingers Kate & Anna McGarrigle.
[3] Lanken was married to singer-songwriter Anna McGarrigle, and had appeared as a vocalist on several of her albums with her sister Kate McGarrigle.