Lane Chandler
Born: 1899-06-02
Died: 1972-09-14
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1971
- One More Train to Rob as Party Guest (uncredited)
1965
- Get Smart as Gate Guard (uncredited)
- Requiem for a Gunfighter as Bryan Comer
1961
- Gunslinger as Town Marshal
- The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come as Sheriff
1960
- Noose for a Gunman as Ed Folsey
1959
- Rawhide as Sheriff
1958
- Lawman
- The Left Handed Gun as Townsman on Street with Mason (uncredited)
- Quantrill's Raiders as Sheriff
1957
- Maverick as Lawson (uncredited)
- Have Gun, Will Travel
- Sugarfoot as Sheriff Jim Harkness
- The Californians
1956
- The Lone Ranger as Chip Walker
- Great Day in the Morning as Northern Loyalist (uncredited)
- The First Texan as Col. James Fannin (uncredited)
1955
- Cheyenne
- Gunsmoke as Sam
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Sheriff
- Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
- The Indian Fighter as Head Settler (uncredited)
- Creature with the Atom Brain as Gen. Saunders (uncredited)
- The Man from Bitter Ridge as Crow's Nester (uncredited)
- Apache Ambush
- Tall Man Riding as Hap Sutton
- Shotgun as Fletcher
1954
- Living It Up as Policeman (uncredited)
- Border River as Anderson
- Return to Treasure Island as Capt. Cardigan
1953
- Calamity Jane as Prospector (uncredited)
- Thunder Over the Plains as Mike Faraday
1952
- Mr. & Mrs. North
- Gang Busters
- The Greatest Show on Earth as Dave (uncredited)
- Rancho Notorious as Sheriff Hardy (uncredited)
- The Lusty Men as 4th Rodeo Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- The Big Trees as Brother Dorn (uncredited)
- The San Francisco Story as Morton
- The Lion and the Horse as Sheriff
- The Hawk of Wild River as George/Storekeeper
1951
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- The Adventures of Kit Carson
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Earl Samson
- Along the Great Divide as Sheriff (uncredited)
- The Well as Deputy Stan
- Cattle Queen as Marshal Houston
- Prairie Roundup as Red Dawson (uncredited)
1950
- The Cisco Kid as Sheriff
- Montana as Sheriff Jake Overby (uncredited)
- Outcasts of Black Mesa as Ted Thorp
1949
- The Lone Ranger as Flynn
- Samson and Delilah as Teresh
- Riders of the Whistling Pines as Forest Ranger (uncredited)
- The Lone Wolf and His Lady as Policeman Detaining Marta and Jamison
- Dynamite as Aggressive Motorist (uncredited)
1948
- Red River as Colonel (uncredited)
- The Street with No Name as Policeman at Arcade (Uncredited)
- California's Golden Beginning
- Belle Starr's Daughter as Marshal Evans
- Northwest Stampede as Scrivner
- Albuquerque as Mr. Clark (uncredited)
- Song of My Heart as Policeman
- Money Madness as Policeman
- Big Town Scandal as Irate Store Owner (uncredited)
- Caged Fury as Policeman (uncredited)
- Campus Sleuth as Police Officer
1947
- Pursued as A Callum
- The Corpse Came C.O.D. as Prison Guard
- The Vigilantes Return as Messenger
1946
- It's a Wonderful Life as Policeman (uncredited)
- Duel in the Sun as Cavalry Captain (uncredited)
- Little Giant as Lost Motorist (uncredited)
- Tomorrow Is Forever as Hamilton Lab Technician
- The Dark Mirror as Intern (uncredited)
- Blonde Alibi as Policeman #2 (Uncredited)
- A Guy Could Change as Mr. Schroeder
- Gunning for Vengeance as Jim Clayburn (uncredited)
- Two-Fisted Stranger as Brady (uncredited)
1945
- Along Came Jones as Boone
- Rustlers' Hideout as Hammond - Gambler
- Incendiary Blonde as Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
- Saratoga Trunk as Al (uncredited)
- Manhunt of Mystery Island as Police Insp. Reed
- Sagebrush Heroes as Colton
- Senorita from the West as Cop (uncredited)
1944
- Laura as Detective (uncredited)
- Trigger Trail as Slade
- The Lady and the Monster as Ranger White (Uncredited)
- Follow the Boys as Ship Officer (uncredited)
- Men on Her Mind as Frank Tuttle
- Strange Affair as Mounted Officer (uncredited)
- Heavenly Days as Minute Man
- Trigger Law as Tex
- The Great Mike as Sam Hildur
- Silver City Kid as Steve Clayton
1943
- Phantom of the Opera as Officer (uncredited)
- A Lady Takes a Chance as Slim
- Crazy House as Policeman (uncredited)
- Riders of the Rio Grande as Townsman
- Law of the Saddle as Steve Kinney
- Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground as Duke Merrick
- Wild Horse Rustlers as Smoky Moore / Hans Beckmann
1942
- The Pride of the Yankees as Mark - Player in Locker Room (uncredited)
- Reap the Wild Wind as Sam
- Invisible Agent as German Sentry (uncredited)
- Sundown Jim as Nat Oldroyd
- The Valley of Vanishing Men as Major Stacy Roberts
- Don Winslow of the Navy as Henchman Corley
1941
- Sergeant York as Corporal Savage (uncredited)
- They Died with Their Boots On as Sentry (uncredited)
- Six-Gun Gold as Brad Cardigan
- Among the Living
- The Spider Returns as Police Lab Fingerprint Man
- Lady from Louisiana as Courtroom Police Officer
- The Roundup as Taggert
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as Adjutant (uncredited)
- A Volta do Besouro Verde as Cop Car-Chasing Foranti
- North West Mounted Police as Constable Fyffe
- Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe as Ming's Soldier (uncredited)
- Virginia City as Irby's Orderly at Libby (uncredited)
- The Green Hornet as Acme Driver Bill (uncredited)
- My Little Chickadee as Porter (uncredited)
- The Howards of Virginia as Major
- Charlie Chan in Panama as Powerhouse Search Officer
- Midnight Limited as Inspector in Montreal (Uncredited)
- Junior G-Men as Second Cop at Building Collapse (uncredited)
- The Great Plane Robbery as Jill Whitcomb
- Hi-Yo Silver as Dick Forrest
- Pioneers of the West as Steve Carson
- Deadwood Dick as Wild Bill Hickok
- Pony Post as Ed Fairweather, Pony Express Rider
1939
- Union Pacific as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- Made for Each Other as Ranger on Telephone (uncredited)
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Captain of Fouquet's Guards
- The Phantom Creeps as Henchman with Rankin
- Invisible Stripes as Detective (uncredited)
- Secret Service of the Air as U.S. Border Patrol Officer
- Code of the Streets as Policeman
- Buck Rogers as Army Official at Wade's Lab
- Outpost of the Mounties as Mountie Cooper
- Blackwell's Island as Policeman at Ballinger's (uncredited)
- Saga of Death Valley as Roy's Father
- Southward Ho! as Jim Crawford
- The Man from Montreal as Constable Rankin
- Three Little Sew and Sews as Shore Patrolman (uncredited)
- Oklahoma Frontier as Sergeant
- The Oregon Trail as Corporal in Sherman's Office
1938
- Start Cheering as Field Judge
- Marie Antoinette as Revolutionary Officer (uncredited)
- Girls on Probation as Second Detective
- Heart of Arizona as Trimmer Winkler
- Too Hot to Handle as Cameraman (uncredited)
- Over the Wall as Boiler Room Guard
- Heart of the North as Frank (uncredited)
- Mutts to You as Doug Manning (uncredited)
- The Lone Ranger as Dick Forrest
- The Jury's Secret as Spectator
- The First Hundred Years as Doorman (uncredited)
- Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars as Flight Commander
- Come On, Rangers as Ken Rogers
- The Daredevil Drivers as Policeman (uncredited)
- Two Gun Justice as Butch - Henchman
- Land of Fighting Men as Cliff - Henchman
1937
- Rosalie as Army Assistant Football Coach (uncredited)
- Wells Fargo as Tom - Wells Fargo Messenger
- Kid Galahad as Title Fight Knockdown Timekeeper (uncredited)
- Alcatraz Island as Federal Officer (uncredited)
- The Firefly as Captain of Guards (uncredited)
- Fly Away Baby as Policeman Announcing Miss Sayre (uncredited)
- Law of the Ranger as ? (unconfirmed - pressbook name, Cal Williams)
- She Loved a Fireman as Bill Patton
- Public Wedding as Reporter
- Sea Devils as Coast Guard Officer (uncredited)
- The Wrong Road as Detective (uncredited)
- Tim Tyler's Luck as Patrolman Kelly
- Missing Witnesses as Prison Guard (uncredited)
- Confession as Actor (uncredited)
- Heroes of the Alamo as Davy Crockett
- Sea Racketeers as Lt. Hays (radio voice) / Insp. L. McGrath
1936
- Sharad of Atlantis as Darius
- Flash Gordon as Ming's Soldier
- Winds of the Wasteland as Larry Adams
- The Lawless Nineties as Bridger
- A Face in the Fog as Policeman (uncredited)
- Crash Donovan as Henchman (uncredited)
- Stormy Trails as Foreman Dunn
- The Idaho Kid as Jess Peters
- The Stagecoach Race as Larry Adams
- Law and Lead as Cattleman Detective Ned
1935
- The Lone Bandit as Lane Cartwright
- Public Hero Number 1 as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- The Outlaw Tamer as 'Tex' Broderick
- North of Arizona as Ray - Express agent
1934
- The Merry Widow as Soldier Reporting to Popoff (uncredited)
- The Affairs of Cellini as Jailer (uncredited)
1933
- Sagebrush Trail as Joseph Conlon
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Flier (uncredited)
- The Devil's Brother as Lorenzo's Lieutenant
- Fugitive as Joseph
- Deluge as Jack
- Via Pony Express as Lieutenant Bob Grey
- Corruption as Assistant District Attorney King
- Fighting With Kit Carson as Army Sergeant
- Trouble Busters as Jim Perkins
- War of the Range as Henchman Bull Harris
1932
- The Wyoming Whirlwind as Keene Wallace "The Wolf"
- Guns for Hire as Flip LaRue
- The Devil Horse as Elliott Norton [Chs. 1, 9, 11] (uncredited)
- Lawless Valley as Bob Rand
- The Reckless Rider as 'Tex' Wilkins
- Texas Tornado as Tex Robbins - Posing as Wolf Cassidy
1931
- The Cheyenne Cyclone as Bob Carleton
- Riders of the Rio as Bob Lane
- The Hurricane Horseman as 'Gun' Smith
- The Primrose Path as Danny McGann
1930
- Rough Waters as Cal Morton
- Beyond the Law as Jack-Knife
- Under Texas Skies as Singer Martin - Secret Service Agent
- Firebrand Jordan as Firebrand Jordan
1929
- The Single Standard as Ding Stuart
- The Forward Pass as Assistant Coach Kane
1928
- The Legion of the Condemned as Charles Holabird
- The First Kiss as William Talbot
- The Big Killing as George Hicks
- Red Hair as Robert Lennon
- Love and Learn as Anthony Cowles
1927
- The Last Outlaw as Rancher
- Open Range as Tex Smith