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
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Sheriff
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
- The Indian Fighter as Head Settler (uncredited)
- Tall Man Riding as Hap Sutton
- Shotgun as Fletcher
- Apache Ambush
- The Man from Bitter Ridge as Crow's Nester (uncredited)
- Creature with the Atom Brain as Gen. Saunders (uncredited)
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)
- The Lusty Men as 4th Rodeo Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- Rancho Notorious as Sheriff Hardy (uncredited)
- The Big Trees as Brother Dorn (uncredited)
- The Lion and the Horse as Sheriff
- The San Francisco Story as Morton
- The Hawk of Wild River as George/Storekeeper
1951
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- The Adventures of Kit Carson
- Along the Great Divide as Sheriff (uncredited)
- The Well as Deputy Stan
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Earl Samson
- 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)
- Albuquerque as Mr. Clark (uncredited)
- The Street with No Name as Policeman at Arcade (Uncredited)
- Belle Starr's Daughter as Marshal Evans
- California's Golden Beginning
- Campus Sleuth as Police Officer
- Northwest Stampede as Scrivner
- Song of My Heart as Policeman
- Money Madness as Policeman
- Caged Fury as Policeman (uncredited)
- Big Town Scandal as Irate Store Owner (uncredited)
1947
- Pursued as A Callum
- The Vigilantes Return as Messenger
- The Corpse Came C.O.D. as Prison Guard
1946
- It's a Wonderful Life as Policeman (uncredited)
- Duel in the Sun as Cavalry Captain (uncredited)
- Blonde Alibi as Policeman #2 (Uncredited)
- Little Giant as Lost Motorist (uncredited)
- Tomorrow Is Forever as Hamilton Lab Technician
- The Dark Mirror as Intern (uncredited)
- Gunning for Vengeance as Jim Clayburn (uncredited)
- A Guy Could Change as Mr. Schroeder
- 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
- Follow the Boys as Ship Officer (uncredited)
- Men on Her Mind as Frank Tuttle
- The Lady and the Monster as Ranger White (Uncredited)
- Heavenly Days as Minute Man
- The Great Mike as Sam Hildur
- Silver City Kid as Steve Clayton
- Strange Affair as Mounted Officer (uncredited)
- Trigger Law as Tex
1943
- Phantom of the Opera as Officer (uncredited)
- A Lady Takes a Chance as Slim
- Crazy House as Policeman (uncredited)
- Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground as Duke Merrick
- Wild Horse Rustlers as Smoky Moore / Hans Beckmann
- Riders of the Rio Grande as Townsman
- Law of the Saddle as Steve Kinney
1942
- Invisible Agent as German Sentry (uncredited)
- Reap the Wild Wind as Sam
- The Pride of the Yankees as Mark - Player in Locker Room (uncredited)
- Sundown Jim as Nat Oldroyd
- Don Winslow of the Navy as Henchman Corley
- The Valley of Vanishing Men as Major Stacy Roberts
1941
- Sergeant York as Corporal Savage (uncredited)
- They Died with Their Boots On as Sentry (uncredited)
- Six-Gun Gold as Brad Cardigan
- Lady from Louisiana as Courtroom Police Officer
- The Spider Returns as Police Lab Fingerprint Man
- Among the Living
- The Roundup as Taggert
1940
- Santa Fe Trail as Adjutant (uncredited)
- Virginia City as Irby's Orderly at Libby (uncredited)
- North West Mounted Police as Constable Fyffe
- The Green Hornet Strikes Again! as Cop Car-Chasing Foranti
- My Little Chickadee as Porter (uncredited)
- Deadwood Dick as Wild Bill Hickok
- Junior G-Men as Second Cop at Building Collapse (uncredited)
- The Green Hornet as Acme Driver Bill (uncredited)
- The Howards of Virginia as Major
- Hi-Yo Silver as Dick Forrest
- Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe as Ming's Soldier (uncredited)
- Charlie Chan in Panama as Powerhouse Search Officer
- Midnight Limited as Inspector in Montreal (Uncredited)
- The Great Plane Robbery as Jill Whitcomb
- Pony Post as Ed Fairweather, Pony Express Rider
- Pioneers of the West as Steve Carson
1939
- Union Pacific as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Captain of Fouquet's Guards
- Invisible Stripes as Detective (uncredited)
- Made for Each Other as Ranger on Telephone (uncredited)
- The Phantom Creeps as Henchman with Rankin
- Buck Rogers as Army Official at Wade's Lab
- The Oregon Trail as Corporal in Sherman's Office
- Southward Ho! as Jim Crawford
- Blackwell's Island as Policeman at Ballinger's (uncredited)
- The Man from Montreal as Constable Rankin
- Saga of Death Valley as Roy's Father
- Outpost of the Mounties as Mountie Cooper
- Secret Service of the Air as U.S. Border Patrol Officer
- Code of the Streets as Policeman
- Three Little Sew and Sews as Shore Patrolman (uncredited)
- Oklahoma Frontier as Sergeant
1938
- Start Cheering as Field Judge
- Marie Antoinette as Revolutionary Officer (uncredited)
- Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars as Flight Commander
- The First Hundred Years as Doorman (uncredited)
- Too Hot to Handle as Cameraman (uncredited)
- Over the Wall as Boiler Room Guard
- Heart of Arizona as Trimmer Winkler
- Heart of the North as Frank (uncredited)
- Mutts to You as Doug Manning (uncredited)
- The Lone Ranger as Dick Forrest
- Girls on Probation as Second Detective
- Two Gun Justice as Butch - Henchman
- The Daredevil Drivers as Policeman (uncredited)
- The Jury's Secret as Spectator
- Land of Fighting Men as Cliff - Henchman
- Come On, Rangers as Ken Rogers
1937
- Kid Galahad as Title Fight Knockdown Timekeeper (uncredited)
- Rosalie as Army Assistant Football Coach (uncredited)
- The Firefly as Captain of Guards (uncredited)
- Wells Fargo as Tom - Wells Fargo Messenger
- The Wrong Road as Detective (uncredited)
- Public Wedding as Reporter
- Sea Devils as Coast Guard Officer (uncredited)
- Fly Away Baby as Policeman Announcing Miss Sayre (uncredited)
- Confession as Actor (uncredited)
- Alcatraz Island as Federal Officer (uncredited)
- She Loved a Fireman as Bill Patton
- Law of the Ranger as ? (unconfirmed - pressbook name, Cal Williams)
- Heroes of the Alamo as Davy Crockett
- Missing Witnesses as Prison Guard (uncredited)
- Tim Tyler's Luck as Patrolman Kelly
- 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
- Crash Donovan as Henchman (uncredited)
- The Idaho Kid as Jess Peters
- Stormy Trails as Foreman Dunn
- A Face in the Fog as Policeman (uncredited)
- Law and Lead as Cattleman Detective Ned
- The Stagecoach Race as Larry Adams
1935
- The Lone Bandit as Lane Cartwright
- The Outlaw Tamer as 'Tex' Broderick
- Public Hero Number 1 as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- 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 Devil's Brother as Lorenzo's Lieutenant
- Deluge as Jack
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Flier (uncredited)
- Fugitive as Joseph
- Via Pony Express as Lieutenant Bob Grey
- Fighting With Kit Carson as Army Sergeant
- Corruption as Assistant District Attorney King
- War of the Range as Henchman Bull Harris
- Trouble Busters as Jim Perkins
1932
- The Wyoming Whirlwind as Keene Wallace "The Wolf"
- Guns for Hire as Flip LaRue
- Lawless Valley as Bob Rand
- The Devil Horse as Elliott Norton [Chs. 1, 9, 11] (uncredited)
- The Reckless Rider as 'Tex' Wilkins
- Texas Tornado as Tex Robbins - Posing as Wolf Cassidy
1931
- The Cheyenne Cyclone as Bob Carleton
- The Hurricane Horseman as 'Gun' Smith
- Riders of the Rio as Bob Lane
- The Primrose Path as Danny McGann
1930
- Firebrand Jordan as Firebrand Jordan
- Rough Waters as Cal Morton
- Beyond the Law as Jack-Knife
- Under Texas Skies as Singer Martin - Secret Service Agent
1929
- The Single Standard as Ding Stuart
- The Forward Pass as Assistant Coach Kane
1928
- The Big Killing as George Hicks
- Red Hair as Robert Lennon
- Love and Learn as Anthony Cowles
- The First Kiss as William Talbot
- The Legion of the Condemned as Charles Holabird
1927
- The Last Outlaw as Rancher
- Open Range as Tex Smith