Fred Crane, a former longtime Los Angeles classical music radio station announcer who achieved a slice of film immortality as an actor who played one of the handsome Tarleton twins in the 1939 movie classic “Gone With the Wind,” has died. He was 90.

Crane, who had been hospitalized for a few weeks with diabetes-related complications, died of a blood clot in his lung Thursday in a hospital near Atlanta, said his wife, Terry.

Crane was the oldest surviving adult male cast member of “Gone With the Wind,” producer David O. Selznick’s epic production of the Margaret Mitchell novel starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh.

“I’m just a small shard in a grand mosaic,” he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2007.

As Brent Tarleton, one of Scarlett O’Hara’s young suitors, Crane spoke the opening lines in the film in a scene on the front porch of Tara with Leigh as Scarlett and George Reeves as his twin, Stuart.

“What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett?” he says. “The war is gonna start any day now, so we would have left school anyhow.”

After Brent and Stuart express their excitement over the prospect of a fight with the Yankees, Scarlet replies: “Fiddle-de-de. War, war, war. This war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream.”

When he was cast in “Gone With the Wind,” the 20-year-old Crane hadn’t read Mitchell’s best-selling novel and wasn’t even looking for a role in the film.

“It was a matter of being in right place at the right time,” Crane later said.

A New Orleans native, Crane attended both Tulane University and Loyola University in New Orleans and acted in local theater productions.