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