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
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- Cheyenne
- Gunsmoke as Sam
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Sheriff
- Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
- The Indian Fighter as Head Settler (uncredited)
- The Man from Bitter Ridge as Crow's Nester (uncredited)
- Shotgun as Fletcher
- Tall Man Riding as Hap Sutton
- Creature with the Atom Brain as Gen. Saunders (uncredited)
- Apache Ambush
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 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)
- Outcast 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
- Albuquerque as Mr. Clark (uncredited)
- Song of My Heart as Policeman
- Northwest Stampede as Scrivner
- Caged Fury as Policeman (uncredited)
- Big Town Scandal as Irate Store Owner (uncredited)
- Money Madness as Policeman
- 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)
- Blonde Alibi as Policeman #2 (Uncredited)
- Duel in the Sun as Cavalry Captain (uncredited)
- The Dark Mirror as Intern (uncredited)
- Tomorrow Is Forever as Hamilton Lab Technician
- Little Giant as Lost Motorist (uncredited)
- A Guy Could Change as Mr. Schroeder
- Two-Fisted Stranger as Brady (uncredited)
- Gunning for Vengeance as Jim Clayburn (uncredited)
1945
- Along Came Jones as Boone
- Rustlers' Hideout as Hammond - Gambler
- Incendiary Blonde as Mounted Policeman (uncredited)
- Saratoga Trunk as Al (uncredited)
- Senorita from the West as Cop (uncredited)
- Manhunt of Mystery Island as Police Insp. Reed
- Sagebrush Heroes as Colton
1944
- Laura as Detective (uncredited)
- Trigger Trail as Slade
- Destiny as Patrolman (uncredited)
- The Lady and the Monster as Ranger White (Uncredited)
- Men on Her Mind as Frank Tuttle
- Follow the Boys as Ship Officer (uncredited)
- The Great Mike as Sam Hildur
- Silver City Kid as Steve Clayton
- Strange Affair as Mounted Officer (uncredited)
- Trigger Law as Tex
- Heavenly Days as Minute Man
1943
- Phantom of the Opera as Officer (uncredited)
- A Lady Takes a Chance as Slim
- Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground as Duke Merrick
- Law of the Saddle as Steve Kinney
- Riders of the Rio Grande as Townsman
- Crazy House as Policeman (uncredited)
- Wild Horse Rustlers as Smoky Moore / Hans Beckmann
1942
- Reap the Wild Wind as Sam
- Sundown Jim as Nat Oldroyd
- The Pride of the Yankees as Mark - Player in Locker Room (uncredited)
- Invisible Agent as German Sentry (uncredited)
- Don Winslow of the Navy as Henchman Corley
- The Valley of Vanishing Men as Major Stacy Roberts
1941
- They Died with Their Boots On as Sentry (uncredited)
- Sergeant York as Corporal Savage (uncredited)
- Six-Gun Gold as Brad Cardigan
- Among the Living
- Lady from Louisiana as Courtroom Police Officer
- The Roundup as Taggert
- The Spider Returns as Police Lab Fingerprint Man
1940
- The Green Hornet Strikes Again! as Cop Car-Chasing Foranti
- North West Mounted Police as Constable Fyffe
- Santa Fe Trail as Adjutant (uncredited)
- 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)
- Charlie Chan in Panama as Powerhouse Search Officer
- Junior G-Men as Second Cop at Building Collapse (uncredited)
- The Great Plane Robbery as Jill Whitcomb
- The Howards of Virginia as Major
- Hi-Yo Silver as Dick Forrest
- My Little Chickadee as Porter (uncredited)
- Pioneers of the West as Steve Carson
- Midnight Limited as Inspector in Montreal (Uncredited)
- Deadwood Dick as Wild Bill Hickok
- Pony Post as Ed Fairweather, Pony Express Rider
1939
- The Phantom Creeps as Henchman with Rankin
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Captain of Fouquet's Guards
- Made for Each Other as Ranger on Telephone (uncredited)
- Union Pacific as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- Buck Rogers as Army Official at Wade's Lab
- Outpost of the Mounties as Mountie Cooper
- The Oregon Trail as Corporal in Sherman's Office
- Invisible Stripes as Detective (uncredited)
- Code of the Streets as Policeman
- Saga of Death Valley as Roy's Father
- Three Little Sew and Sews as Shore Patrolman (uncredited)
- 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)
- 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
- Too Hot to Handle as Cameraman (uncredited)
- Heart of Arizona as Trimmer Winkler
- Mutts to You as Doug Manning (uncredited)
- The Jury's Secret as Spectator
- Land of Fighting Men as Cliff - Henchman
- The Daredevil Drivers as Policeman (uncredited)
- Heart of the North as Frank (uncredited)
- The First Hundred Years as Doorman (uncredited)
- The Lone Ranger as Dick Forrest
- Over the Wall as Boiler Room Guard
- Girls on Probation as Second Detective
- Two Gun Justice as Butch - Henchman
- Come On, Rangers as Ken Rogers
1937
- Rosalie as Army Assistant Football Coach (uncredited)
- Law of the Ranger as ? (unconfirmed - pressbook name, Cal Williams)
- Kid Galahad as Title Fight Knockdown Timekeeper (uncredited)
- Wells Fargo as Tom - Wells Fargo Messenger
- The Firefly as Captain of Guards (uncredited)
- Heroes of the Alamo as Davy Crockett
- Sea Devils as Coast Guard Officer (uncredited)
- Fly Away Baby as Policeman Announcing Miss Sayre (uncredited)
- Tim Tyler's Luck as Patrolman Kelly
- The Wrong Road as Detective (uncredited)
- Public Wedding as Reporter
- Alcatraz Island as Federal Officer (uncredited)
- She Loved a Fireman as Bill Patton
- Confession as Actor (uncredited)
- Missing Witnesses as Prison Guard (uncredited)
- Sea Racketeers as Lt. Hays (radio voice) / Insp. L. McGrath
1936
- Sharad of Atlantis as Darius
- Winds of the Wasteland as Larry Adams
- Flash Gordon as Ming's Soldier
- A Face in the Fog as Policeman (uncredited)
- Crash Donovan as Henchman (uncredited)
- Law and Lead as Cattleman Detective Ned
- The Lawless Nineties as Bridger
- Stormy Trails as Foreman Dunn
- The Idaho Kid as Jess Peters
- The Stagecoach Race as Larry Adams
1935
- The Outlaw Tamer as 'Tex' Broderick
- The Lone Bandit as Lane Cartwright
- 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
- Fugitive as Joseph
- The Devil's Brother as Lorenzo's Lieutenant
- Via Pony Express as Lieutenant Bob Grey
- The Eagle and the Hawk as Flier (uncredited)
- Fighting With Kit Carson as Army Sergeant
- War of the Range as Henchman Bull Harris
- Deluge as Jack
- Corruption as Assistant District Attorney King
- Trouble Busters as Jim Perkins
1932
- Guns for Hire as Flip LaRue
- The Wyoming Whirlwind as Keene Wallace "The Wolf"
- 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
- Lawless Valley as Bob Rand
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
- Firebrand Jordan as Firebrand Jordan
- Under Texas Skies as Singer Martin - Secret Service Agent
- Beyond the Law as Jack-Knife
- Rough Waters as Cal Morton
1929
- The Forward Pass as Assistant Coach Kane
- The Single Standard as Ding Stuart
1928
- The Big Killing as George Hicks
- The Legion of the Condemned as Charles Holabird
- The First Kiss as William Talbot
- Love and Learn as Anthony Cowles
- Red Hair as Robert Lennon
1927
- The Last Outlaw as Rancher
- Open Range as Tex Smith