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Birthday:
June 2, 1899
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Lane Chandler
Biography
Lane Chandler (1899–1972) was an American actor specializing in Westerns.
In the early 1920s he moved to Los Angeles, California, and started working as an auto mechanic. His real-life experiences growing up on a horse ranch landed him bit parts in westerns from 1925, for Paramount Pictures. Studio executives suggested changing his name to Lane Chandler, and as such he began achieving leading roles, the first being The Legion of the Condemned.
As a silent film star Chandler performed well, but when talkies arrived he was cast more in supporting roles, as in The Great Mike of 1944. He starred in a few low-budget westerns in the 1930s, but was more often cast as the leading man's partner, or saddle pal, or a sheriff or army officer. With the advent of television Chandler began making appearance on numerous series, often in Westerns such as The Lone Ranger, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Lawman, Have Gun – Will Travel, Rawhide, Maverick, Cheyenne, and Gunsmoke. He continued acting on TV and in films through 1966.
He died in Los Angeles of heart disease in 1972, aged 73.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | One More Train to Rob | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1965 | Requiem for a Gunfighter | Bryan Comer |
| 1961 | The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come | Sheriff |
| 1960 | Noose for a Gunman | Ed Folsey |
| 1958 | Quantrill's Raiders | Sheriff |
| 1956 | The First Texan | Col. James Fannin (uncredited) |
| 1956 | The Lone Ranger | Chip Walker |
| 1956 | Great Day in the Morning | Northern Loyalist (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Creature with the Atom Brain | Gen. Saunders (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Tall Man Riding | Hap Sutton |
| 1955 | The Man from Bitter Ridge | Crow's Nester (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Apache Ambush | |
| 1955 | The Indian Fighter | Head Settler (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Shotgun | Fletcher |
| 1954 | Return to Treasure Island | Capt. Cardigan |
| 1954 | Border River | Anderson |
| 1953 | Calamity Jane | Prospector (uncredited) |
| 1953 | Thunder Over the Plains | Mike Faraday |
| 1952 | The San Francisco Story | Morton |
| 1952 | The Lusty Men | 4th Rodeo Announcer (voice) (uncredited) |
| 1952 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Dave (uncredited) |
| 1952 | The Lion and the Horse | Sheriff |
| 1952 | The Big Trees | Brother Dorn (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Rancho Notorious | Sheriff Hardy (uncredited) |
| 1951 | The Well | Deputy Stan |
| 1951 | Prairie Roundup | Red Dawson (uncredited) |
| 1951 | Cattle Queen | Marshal Houston |
| 1951 | Along the Great Divide | Sheriff (uncredited) |
| 1950 | Outcasts of Black Mesa | Ted Thorp |
| 1949 | Dynamite | Aggressive Motorist (uncredited) |
| 1949 | Riders of the Whistling Pines | Forest Ranger (uncredited) |
| 1949 | The Lone Wolf and His Lady | Policeman Detaining Marta and Jamison |
| 1949 | Samson and Delilah | Teresh |
| 1948 | Belle Starr's Daughter | Marshal Evans |
| 1948 | Money Madness | Policeman |
| 1948 | The Street with No Name | Policeman at Arcade (Uncredited) |
| 1948 | Big Town Scandal | Irate Store Owner (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Campus Sleuth | Police Officer |
| 1948 | Northwest Stampede | Scrivner |
| 1948 | California's Golden Beginning | |
| 1948 | Song of My Heart | Policeman |
| 1948 | Red River | Colonel (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Caged Fury | Policeman (uncredited) |
| 1948 | Albuquerque | Mr. Clark (uncredited) |
| 1947 | The Vigilantes Return | Messenger |
| 1947 | The Corpse Came C.O.D. | Prison Guard |
| 1947 | Pursued | A Callum |
| 1946 | The Dark Mirror | Intern (uncredited) |
| 1946 | It's a Wonderful Life | Policeman (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Tomorrow Is Forever | Hamilton Lab Technician |
| 1946 | Two-Fisted Stranger | Brady (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Gunning for Vengeance | Jim Clayburn (uncredited) |
| 1946 | A Guy Could Change | Mr. Schroeder |
| 1946 | Blonde Alibi | Policeman #2 (Uncredited) |
| 1946 | Little Giant | Lost Motorist (uncredited) |
| 1946 | Duel in the Sun | Cavalry Captain (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Along Came Jones | Boone |
| 1945 | Saratoga Trunk | Al (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Manhunt of Mystery Island | Police Insp. Reed |
| 1945 | Senorita from the West | Cop (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Rustlers' Hideout | Hammond - Gambler |
| 1945 | Sagebrush Heroes | Colton |
| 1945 | Incendiary Blonde | Mounted Policeman (uncredited) |
| 1944 | The Great Mike | Sam Hildur |
| 1944 | Laura | Detective (uncredited) |
| 1944 | Silver City Kid | Steve Clayton |
| 1944 | Trigger Trail | Slade |
| 1944 | Trigger Law | Tex |
| 1944 | The Lady and the Monster | Ranger White (Uncredited) |
| 1944 | Strange Affair | Mounted Officer (Uncredited) |
| 1944 | Men on Her Mind | Frank Tuttle |
| 1944 | Heavenly Days | Minute Man |
| 1943 | Phantom of the Opera | Officer (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Wild Horse Rustlers | Smoky Moore / Hans Beckmann |
| 1943 | Law of the Saddle | Steve Kinney |
| 1943 | Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground | Duke Merrick |
| 1943 | Riders of the Rio Grande | Townsman |
| 1943 | A Lady Takes a Chance | Slim |
| 1943 | Crazy House | Policeman |
| 1942 | Invisible Agent | German Sentry (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Reap the Wild Wind | Sam |
| 1942 | The Pride of the Yankees | Mark - Player in Locker Room (uncredited) |
| 1942 | The Valley of Vanishing Men | Major Stacy Roberts |
| 1942 | Sundown Jim | Nat Oldroyd |
| 1942 | Don Winslow of the Navy | Henchman Corley |
| 1941 | Among the Living | |
| 1941 | Six-Gun Gold | Brad Cardigan |
| 1941 | Sergeant York | Corporal Savage (uncredited) |
| 1941 | The Spider Returns | Police Lab Fingerprint Man |
| 1941 | The Roundup | Taggert |
| 1941 | Lady from Louisiana | Courtroom Police Officer |
| 1941 | They Died with Their Boots On | Sentry (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Pioneers of the West | Steve Carson |
| 1940 | The Green Hornet Strikes Again! | Cop Car-Chasing Foranti |
| 1940 | Charlie Chan in Panama | Powerhouse Search Officer |
| 1940 | The Green Hornet | Acme Driver Bill (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Pony Post | Ed Fairweather, Pony Express Rider |
| 1940 | Santa Fe Trail | Adjutant (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Virginia City | Irby's Orderly at Libby (uncredited) |
| 1940 | My Little Chickadee | Porter (uncredited) |
| 1940 | North West Mounted Police | Constable Fyffe |
| 1940 | Deadwood Dick | Wild Bill Hickok |
| 1940 | The Howards of Virginia | Major |
| 1940 | Midnight Limited | Inspector in Montreal (Uncredited) |
| 1940 | Junior G-Men | Second Cop at Building Collapse (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe | Ming's Soldier (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Hi-Yo Silver | Dick Forrest |
| 1940 | The Great Plane Robbery | Jill Whitcomb |
| 1939 | Southward Ho! | Jim Crawford |
| 1939 | Three Little Sew and Sews | Shore Patrolman (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Union Pacific | Train Conductor (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Saga of Death Valley | Roy's Father |
| 1939 | The Phantom Creeps | Henchman with Rankin |
| 1939 | Secret Service of the Air | U.S. Border Patrol Officer |
| 1939 | Buck Rogers | Army Official at Wade's Lab |
| 1939 | The Oregon Trail | Corporal in Sherman's Office |
| 1939 | Made for Each Other | Ranger on Telephone (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Blackwell's Island | Policeman at Ballinger's (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Man in the Iron Mask | Captain of Fouquet's Guards |
| 1939 | Oklahoma Frontier | Sergeant |
| 1939 | Outpost of the Mounties | Mountie Cooper |
| 1939 | Code of the Streets | Policeman |
| 1939 | Invisible Stripes | Detective (uncredited) |
| 1939 | The Man from Montreal | Constable Rankin |
| 1938 | Land of Fighting Men | Cliff - Henchman |
| 1938 | Two Gun Justice | Butch - Henchman |
| 1938 | Come On, Rangers | Ken Rogers |
| 1938 | Mutts to You | Doug Manning (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Lone Ranger | Dick Forrest |
| 1938 | Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars | Flight Commander |
| 1938 | Start Cheering | Field Judge |
| 1938 | Girls on Probation | Second Detective |
| 1938 | The Daredevil Drivers | Policeman (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Heart of the North | Frank (uncredited) |
| 1938 | Heart of Arizona | Trimmer Winkler |
| 1938 | Over the Wall | Boiler Room Guard |
| 1938 | The First Hundred Years | Doorman (uncredited) |
| 1938 | The Jury's Secret | Spectator |
| 1938 | Marie Antoinette | Revolutionary Officer (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Alcatraz Island | Federal Officer (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Sea Devils | Coast Guard Officer (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Firefly | Captain of Guards (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Kid Galahad | (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Law of the Ranger | ? (unconfirmed - pressbook name, Cal Williams) |
| 1937 | Sea Racketeers | Lt. Hays (radio voice) / Insp. L. McGrath |
| 1937 | Heroes of the Alamo | Davy Crockett |
| 1937 | Wells Fargo | Tom - Wells Fargo Messenger |
| 1937 | Public Wedding | Reporter |
| 1937 | She Loved a Fireman | Bill Patton |
| 1937 | Missing Witnesses | Prison Guard (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Rosalie | Army Assistant Football Coach (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Tim Tyler's Luck | Patrolman Kelly |
| 1937 | Confession | Actor (uncredited) |
| 1937 | The Wrong Road | Detective (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Fly Away Baby | Policeman Announcing Miss Sayre (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Winds of the Wasteland | Larry Adams |
| 1936 | The Lawless Nineties | Bridger |
| 1936 | The Stagecoach Race | Larry Adams |
| 1936 | Sharad of Atlantis | Darius |
| 1936 | Law and Lead | Cattleman Detective Ned |
| 1936 | The Idaho Kid | Jess Peters |
| 1936 | Stormy Trails | Foreman Dunn |
| 1936 | A Face in the Fog | Policeman (uncredited) |
| 1936 | Crash Donovan | Henchman (uncredited) |
| 1935 | North of Arizona | Ray - Express agent |
| 1935 | The Outlaw Tamer | 'Tex' Broderick |
| 1935 | Public Hero Number 1 | Train Conductor (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Affairs of Cellini | Jailer (uncredited) |
| 1934 | The Merry Widow | Soldier Reporting to Popoff (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Sagebrush Trail | Joseph Conlon |
| 1933 | War of the Range | Henchman Bull Harris |
| 1933 | Fighting With Kit Carson | Army Sergeant |
| 1933 | Trouble Busters | Jim Perkins |
| 1933 | The Eagle and the Hawk | Flier (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Corruption | Assistant District Attorney King |
| 1933 | The Devil's Brother | Lorenzo's Lieutenant |
| 1933 | Deluge | Jack |
| 1932 | Lawless Valley | Bob Rand |
| 1932 | The Wyoming Whirlwind | Keene Wallace "The Wolf" |
| 1932 | Texas Tornado | Tex Robbins - Posing as Wolf Cassidy |
| 1932 | The Reckless Rider | 'Tex' Wilkins |
| 1932 | The Devil Horse | Elliott Norton [Chs. 1, 9, 11] (uncredited) |
| 1931 | The Primrose Path | Danny McGann |
| 1931 | The Hurricane Horseman | 'Gun' Smith |
| 1930 | Firebrand Jordan | Firebrand Jordan |
| 1930 | Under Texas Skies | Singer Martin - Secret Service Agent |
| 1930 | Beyond the Law | |
| 1930 | Rough Waters | Cal Morton |
| 1929 | The Single Standard | Ding Stuart |
| 1929 | The Forward Pass | Assistant Coach Kane |
| 1928 | The Legion of the Condemned | Charles Holabird |
| 1928 | Red Hair | Robert Lennon |
| 1928 | The First Kiss | William Talbot |
| 1928 | The Big Killing | George Hicks |
| 1928 | Love and Learn | Anthony Cowles |
| 1927 | Open Range | Tex Smith |
| 1927 | The Last Outlaw | Rancher |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Rawhide | Sheriff |
| 1958 | Lawman | |
| 1957 | Maverick | Lawson (uncredited) |
| 1957 | The Californians | |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | |
| 1957 | Sugarfoot | Sheriff Jim Harkness |
| 1957 | Sugarfoot | Marshal |
| 1955 | Cheyenne | |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Sam |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Sheriff |
| 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | |
| 1955 | Sergeant Preston of the Yukon | |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Trumbull |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Luke |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Warden |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Morgan |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke | Guard |
| 1952 | Gang Busters | |
| 1952 | Mr. & Mrs. North | |
| 1951 | Schlitz Playhouse of Stars | Earl Samson |
| 1951 | The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | |
| 1951 | The Adventures of Kit Carson | |
| 1950 | The Cisco Kid | Sheriff |
| 1949 | The Lone Ranger | Flynn |