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