George Chandler (actor)
George L. Chandler (born June 30, 1898 in Waukegan , Illinois , † June 10, 1985 in Panorama City , California ) was an American actor.
life and career
George Chandler grew up in Hinsdale in Chicago and served in the First World War as a soldier in the United States Army . He began his acting career on the stage, among other things he played in the vaudeville sketch George Chandler, the Musical Nut , in which he could present his violin playing.
With the dawn of talkies in the late 1920s, Chandler turned to the Hollywood business. Over the course of his long career, George Chandler has starred in over 370 films and dozens of television series. He had one of his early roles as the unfortunate son of WC Fields in the acclaimed short film The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933). In numerous films, Chandler was committed to portraying "average types" such as taxi drivers , bartenders, bellboys, soldiers , reporters or postmen in small to medium supporting roles. He was directed particularly often by William A. Wellman , who also gave him a comparatively large role as the husband of Ginger Rogers in Roxie Hart in 1942 . The television brought Chandler from the 1950s also larger parts, for example between 1956 and 1959 as Uncle Petrie Martin in the popular television series Lassie . Chandler took his last role in 1979 in an episode of the television series Lou Grant .
From 1960 to 1963, Chandler served as president of the Screen Actors Guild , succeeding Ronald Reagan . He had previously been the organization's treasurer for many years. He had three children with his wife, Catherine Ward. He died in 1985 at the age of 86 after cancer surgery.
Filmography (selection)
Movie
- 1928: Speed and Spurs (short film)
- 1930: The Florodora Girl
- 1933: The Fatal Glass of Beer (short film)
- 1933: Parade in the Spotlight (Footlight Parade)
- 1933: The Kennel Murder Case
- 1933: The Power and the Glory
- 1933: The Man with the Camera (Picture Snatcher)
- 1933: The Womanizer (Lady Killer)
- 1934: Fog Over Frisco
- 1934: The Horror of the Racetrack (Six-Day Bike Rider)
- 1935: The woman on page 1 (Front Page Woman)
- 1936: Blind Fury (Fury)
- 1936: Funny sinners (Libeled Lady)
- 1936: A Princess for America (The Princess Comes Across)
- 1937: A Star Is Born (A Star is Born)
- 1937: Charlie Chan at the Olympics (Charlie Chan at the Olympics)
- 1937: In Old Chicago
- 1937: Saratoga
- 1937: Nothing Sacred (Nothing Sacred)
- 1938: Three Comrades
- 1938: Mr. Moto and the Gamble (Mr. Moto's Gamble)
- 1938: Joy of Living
- 1938: Mein Mann, der Cowboy (The Cowboy and the Lady)
- 1938: Millionaire gone astray (There Goes My Heart)
- 1938: Second-hand angel (The Shopworn Angel)
- 1938: Burning Fire of Passion (The Shining Hour)
- 1938: Three Loves Has Nancy
- 1939: Second Fiddle
- 1939: Above and Above (It's a Wonderful World)
- 1939: Jesse James, Man Without a Law (Jesse James)
- 1939: Mr. Moto and his decoy (Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation)
- 1939: Three Foreign Legionnaires (Beau Geste)
- 1939: Young Mr. Lincoln (Young Mr. Lincoln)
- 1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- 1940: Arizona
- 1940: The great Edison (Edison, the Man)
- 1940: Broadway Melody 1940 (Broadway Melody of 1940)
- 1940: Revenge for Jesse James (The Return of Frank James)
- 1940: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
- 1941: Raid of the Ogalalla (Western Union)
- 1941: Echo der Jugend (Remember the Day)
- 1941: The devil breaks loose in hell! (Hellzapoppin ')
- 1941: Tobacco Road (Tobacco Road)
- 1942: Roxie Hart
- 1942: Isle of Missing Men
- 1942: Charlie Chan - Castle in the Desert
- 1942: Abbott and Costello among cannibals (Pardon My Sarong)
- 1943: Ride to the Ox-Bow (The Ox-Bow Incident)
- 1943: Lady of Burlesque
- 1943: The Hell of Oklahoma (In Old Oklahoma)
- 1944: It Happened Tomorrow (It Happened Tomorrow)
- 1944: Since You Went Away (Since You Went Away)
- 1944: Charlie Chan in The Chinese Cat
- 1944: Buffalo Bill, the white Indian (Buffalo Bill)
- 1944: With rifle and lasso (Tall in the Saddle)
- 1944: Mission in the Pacific (Wing and a Prayer)
- 1944: Irish Eyes Are Smiling
- 1945: I Was a Criminal
- 1945: The lady on the train (Lady on a Train)
- 1945: Too Smart for Love (Without Love)
- 1945: It's in the bag!
- 1946: The hero of the day (The Kid from Brooklyn)
- 1947: Late atonement (Dead Reckoning)
- 1947: The Double Life of Walter Mitty (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
- 1947: The Charlatan (Nightmare Alley)
- 1947: The Road to Rio (Road to Rio)
- 1947: Foreign City (Magic Town)
- 1947: Sindbad the Sailor (Sindbad the Sailor)
- 1947: So You Want to Be in Pictures (short film)
- 1948: The Man with the Scar (Hollow Triumph)
- 1948: His angel with the two pistols (The Paleface)
- 1948: The Pirate (The Pirate)
- 1949: Kesselschlacht (Battleground)
- 1949: Knock on Any Door
- 1951: Colorado (Across the Wide Missouri)
- 1951: Westward the Women (Westward the Women)
- 1952: The Narrow Margin (The Narrow Margin)
- 1952: Hans Christian Andersen and the Dancer ( Hans Christian Andersen )
- 1953: The Last Signal (Island in the Sky)
- 1954: The High and the Mighty (The High and the Mighty)
- 1957: Hunted by All Dogs (Gunsight Ridge)
- 1964: The Black Circle (Dead Ringer)
- 1966: The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
- 1975: Capone
- 1975: Escape to Witch Mountain (Escape to Witch Mountain)
- 1978: The Man from San Fernando (Every Which Way but Loose)
- 1979: The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
watch TV
- 1953: The Abbott and Costello Show (2 episodes)
- 1953–1956: Adventures of Superman (3 episodes)
- 1954: Waterfront (10 episodes)
- 1956–1959: Lassie (59 episodes)
- 1957: Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 episode)
- 1961: Twilight Zone (1 episode)
- 1961–1962: Ichabod and Me (36 episodes)
- 1963: A Thousand Miles of Dust ( Rawhide ; 1 episode)
- 1967: Batman (1 episode)
- 1967: Bonanza (1 episode)
- 1967: The Boss ( Ironside ; 1 episode)
- 1969: Mannix (1 episode)
- 1970: The People at Shiloh Ranch ( The Virginian ; 1 episode)
- 1971: Smoking Colts ( Gunsmoke ; 2 episodes)
- 1976: The Waltons ( The Waltons ; 1 episode) +
- 1978: CHiPs (1 episode)
- 1978: The two with the turn ( Switch ; 1 episode)
- 1979: Lou Grant (1 episode)
Web links
- George Chandler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Chandler, George |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chandler, George L. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1898 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Waukegan , Illinois |
DATE OF DEATH | June 10, 1985 |
Place of death | Panorama City , California |