Shining a Light
Ring Every Bell shows how the late actor visited Capitol Hill with the nonprofit group I Am ALS, which also released a new PSA featuring Dane and other celebrities
Eric Dane‘s battle with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is the subject of a new short documentary, Ring Every Bell. “It’s the cruelest of all diseases,” he says in the film. “There’s a grieving process. But at the end of the day, you just got to keep moving forward.”
The 21-minute film, below, shows how the actor — who appeared on Grey’s Anatomy, Euphoria, Charmed, and Brilliant Minds, among other shows, and died in February — campaigned for awareness of the disease with the nonprofit group, I Am ALS. The organization produced the picture and lobbied Congress to pass the Act for ALS. “I want to ring every bell,” he says in the doc.
The film, directed by Christopher Burke, includes footage of Dane’s visit to Capitol Hill alongside Dan Tate, Jr., who previously worked in government and has ALS; he’s a founding partner of Forbes Tate Partners, which lobbies government. Dane also worked with I Am ALS co-founders Brian Wallach and his wife and caregiver Sandra Abrevaya.
