Date of birth: 1899-06-02
Place of birth:
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Robert Chandler Oakes, Lane R. Chandler, Lane Arnold, Robert C. Oakes
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.
1955-07-01
Murders, with victims dying from spines broken by brute strength, erupt in the city and the killers,
1930-01-28
'Firebrand' Jordan is a ranger sent into the high Sierras to assist the local Sheriff Ed Burns in ca
1948-11-13
The daughter of famous outlaw Belle Starr arrives at the town where her mother was murdered to find
1948-04-15
A murderous bank robber on the run from the law hides out in a small town.
1933-12-15
Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant escapes and ends up out west where, after givi
1949-01-18
Two members of a dynamite crew--a rugged veteran and a young college drop-out--finds themselves at o
1936-07-06
The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work.
1951-09-24
In a racially mixed American town, a five-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgott
1933-09-21
Jim Warren is starting a range war by getting his boss Duke Bradley to fence off part of the range u
1938-11-03
A cowboy is framed for the murder of a rancher, which was committed by a landgrabber. The cowboy mus
1930-11-15
Three cowboys try to stop a crook from defrauding an orphan girl out of her money.
1938-04-29
A western town is being overrun and ruled by a gang of outlaws led by Bart (John Merton). Former Ran
1943-08-12
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed i
1942-07-31
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
1942-03-26
The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvage
1948-07-14
After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released o
1945-07-19
An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it woul
1933-07-01
In this Western, comprised of 12 chapters from a serial, Kit leads a group carrying a large gold shi
1961-06-01
Director Andrew V. McLaglen's 1961 drama, based on John William Fox's novel, is the tale of a young
1955-06-18
Still seeking revenge against ranch owner Tuck Ordway for publicly whipping him years earlier and br
1956-06-29
After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his
1955-04-12
The Man from Bitter Ridge is a film directed by Jack Arnold. Jeff Carr, a special investigator, arri
1953-11-04
Sharpshooter Calamity Jane takes it upon herself to recruit a famous actress and bring her back to t
1929-07-27
A bored socialite finds fleeting romance with an artist.
1945-11-21
An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces
1936-02-15
Federal Agents Tipton and Bridger have been sent to Wyoming where the vote on statehood is imminent.
1956-02-25
The territorial governor asks the Lone Ranger to investigate mysterious raids on settlers by Indians
1937-10-13
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove
1937-02-19
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming of
1937-11-05
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her
1936-06-01
A re-edited, digitally colourised and re-scored version of vintage black and white Western 'Winds of
1937-05-29
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid
1936-05-30
Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Nor
1939-03-19
Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the
1938-11-21
A Texas Ranger (Roy Rogers) and his pals come out of forced retirement to do what the cavalry cannot
1958-04-27
A Civil War guerilla gang plans an attack on a Kansas arsenal.
1941-12-12
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for hi
1938-10-14
The stooges, professional dog washers, find a baby on a doorstep and, thinking it to be abandoned, t
1939-01-06
The stooges are sailors working in a ships' tailor shop. When they can't get passes to go ashore, th
1927-11-05
Hired ranch hand Tex Smith is smitten with Lucy Blake, who lives in the cattle settlement of Marco.
1942-07-14
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.
1936-11-14
A cowboy hears rumors that an old friend who once headed a criminal gang and had since gone straight
1945-03-17
Claire Forrest seeks her kidnapped scientist father, hidden somewhere on Mystery Island. He is hel
1955-08-24
Two former enemies find themselves together on a cattle drive and fighting marauding Apaches and Mex
1928-03-10
Finding his sweetheart, Christine, in the arms of a German officer, Price joins the French Air Legio
1936-08-05
Idaho, returning to the area he left as a boy, gets in the middle of a range feud. He takes the side
1937-05-11
Working undercover, Rangers Bob and Wally arrive to take up ranching. Out to stop them is Bill Nash
1937-08-20
J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling
1937-08-07
In early spring of 1833, the smoldering resentment of American settlers in Texas against their oppre
1935-02-02
Perrin is a cowboy who comes to the aid of local Indians being swindled out of their gold. He signs
1932-03-03
A cattleman's association hires a range detective to track down and capture a notorious rustler know
1938-02-13
In 1865, Captain Mark Smith of the Confederate Army leads a band of deserters to conquer Texas and r
1938-03-21
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming t
1939-05-05
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro
1942-12-17
Prospector Henry Tolliver disappears and his son "Wild Bill" Tolliver comes looking for him.
1931-01-25
A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters o
1931-10-10
Gomex has kidnapped Don Roberto and is holding him for ransom. Hoping to rescue Roberto and his daug
1932-12-30
A mysterious bandit known as "The Wolf" steals the payroll from a country ranch.
1940-03-12
Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Or
1933-05-15
Leaving town with the Sheriff after him, Tex joins up with the Trouble Busters Skinny and Windy. In
1944-11-15
Story of a boy and his horse. Mike is the horse and is owned by Speck and his best friend Jimmy, tog
1934-08-24
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
1936-12-23
A rancher caught in the middle of a bank robbery shoots one of the robbers. However, the dead bandit
1937-12-31
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, wil
1939-11-17
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy a
1939-01-07
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.
1932-03-31
Tex Robbins, a Texas Ranger, posing as "Wolf" Cassidy, a notorious Chicago gangster, works his way i
1953-10-27
Set in 1869, after the Civil War, Texas had not yet been readmitted to the Union and carpetbaggers,
1939-03-04
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercove
1937-07-09
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fak
1938-03-03
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him e
1938-10-22
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
1939-04-10
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught
1939-07-04
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Orego
1939-02-10
A couple struggle to find happiness after a whirlwind courtship.
1939-01-24
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
1939-07-13
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t
1946-10-17
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out wh
1938-02-12
To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her r
1932-07-01
Disguising himself as an outlaw, a marshal comes to the aid of a man and his daughter who are being
1948-05-27
A crusading editor and his star reporter aid underprivileged youths and crack down on racketeers out
1936-02-01
A mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.
1938-12-10
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound fre
1937-12-18
A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.
1935-03-15
A masked bandit being chased by a posse is wounded but manages to lose them. He is taken in by a fem
1937-12-11
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.
1946-12-20
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people
1949-03-16
While trailing Forest Ranger Charles Carter, who is suspected of permitting lumber man Henry Mitchel
1943-02-12
Tom Cameron learns that his twin brother is with a group of German spies. They intend to thwart the
1946-02-20
In 1918, Elizabeth MacDonald learns that her husband, John Andrew, has been killed in the war. Eliza
1930-10-01
A border saloon - half in California, half in Nevada - is a hangout for frontier gangs.
1933-05-06
The pilots of a Royal Air Force squadron in World War I face not only physical but mental dangers in
1938-04-22
Belle Starr has returned from time in prison only to face a hail of bullets, along with rescue by Ho
1940-12-24
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.
1952-05-11
After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled
1940-03-01
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destro
1955-12-21
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daug
1937-12-24
West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an Europ
1940-01-08
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious maske
1932-11-01
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
1944-11-26
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
1941-08-08
Three cowboys find that a U.S. Marshal relative is an impostor.
1955-04-23
Clay Hardin, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, is about to turn in his badge and take the job as the territory'
1939-10-09
It's the opening of the Cherokee strip and the Rankins are after a particular section. Frazier is al
1940-12-01
Atkins is the boss of one of the Pony Express relay stations. He has been causing trouble and is rep
1949-08-11
A newspaper man, and former jewel thief, is accused of gem theft.
1940-12-20
As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, G
1940-03-23
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in
1940-02-09
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked
1940-10-22
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) trave
1940-07-19
Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.
1952-10-24
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the
1946-05-30
Arriving to become the new Deputy, Steve Gordon takes over as Sheriff instead when he finds the Sher
1951-01-15
In Prairie Roundup, Fred F. Sears' direction brings a welcome jolt of vitality to Columbia's aging "
1946-03-21
Steve Landry arrives as the new Marshal of a town that is having trouble with outlaws. When an outla
1939-09-12
In this adventure, a courageous Canadian Mountie must bring peace an embattled miner and an unscrupu
1941-09-27
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is the
1939-04-13
Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor, Murph, Monk, Trouble and Yap.
1965-06-30
A gunfighter takes the identity of a murdered judge in order to avenge his death.
1940-09-19
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries d
1952-02-16
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though t
1954-06-30
There's something to be said for finishing what you've started. That's why the gentile Captain Long
1940-03-20
The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack tra
1940-11-01
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join fo
1940-03-03
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship
1930-06-06
A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.
1934-11-02
A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.
1928-03-10
A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely d
1938-04-02
When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfr
1946-01-27
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
1937-12-27
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He
1948-05-04
A photographer is murdered just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discover
1933-06-18
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for
1937-08-19
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is reveal
1950-04-13
Our Hero is accused of a crime he didn't commit. Once again, he breaks jail to find the real culprit
1952-05-16
After selling it to a cruel rodeo owner, a cowboy attempts to buy back the wild stallion he snared.
1941-05-09
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spi
1941-04-03
Originally written as a stage vehicle for corpulent character actor Macklyn Arbuckle, Ernest Day's T
1942-03-27
US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful
1940-04-10
Edited version of the 1938 Republic serial "The Lone Ranger."
1943-07-28
With his sidekick Fuzzy Q. Jones, Rocky Cameron rides into a small town plagued by cattle rustlers.
1928-08-17
The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk,
1943-02-05
In order to obtain a stage coach mail contract, a new road must be built. A gang of outlaws try to p
1945-10-12
Determined to become a radio singer, a young girl runs away from her family. She hooks up with a man
1945-09-02
A cowboy and his sidekick fight evil guys who want to rustle cattle in order to get hold of land.
1944-07-20
A landowner tries to drink his neighbor's molybdenum milkshake and winds up having him killed. It's
1944-07-07
The tale of Clint Farrell, an aspiring lawyer who must use both his wits and his brawn to save his t
1944-09-29
Hoot Gibson and Bob Stanley ride into Arizona seeking the killer of Bob's father, who managed the st
1945-02-01
This Columbia western starring Charles Starrett finds Steve Randall (Charles Starrett) forming a rad
1948-07-28
In this romantic western, the real stars are a mustang and a police dog. The human aspect of the sto
1941-04-22
Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate b
1951-11-15
After conning a potential buyer into believing that Queenie's herd is diseased, nasty would-be empir
1945-07-25
Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York n
1941-11-20
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death
1942-01-06
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, nea
1943-05-21
A banker struggles to keep his bank solvent and his town from going bankrupt after the bank is robbe
1943-08-19
A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her ci
1954-01-06
A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight
1948-01-01
A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John
1960-05-01
Case Britton, gunslinger and wanted man, comes to town to meet his bride-to-be, stop a stagecoach ro
1927-07-01
On his way to Steer City, Buddy Hale rescues Janet Lane from a runaway horse. Unknown to Buddy, the
1956-05-16
After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved wit
1944-04-17
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death by a scientist and his two assistants, only to cr
1938-03-12
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a
1947-05-31
Marshal Johnnie Taggart, posing as an outlaw named "Ace" Braddock, comes to Bannack, Montana to rest
1947-06-02
Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the b
1952-02-05
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions
1949-12-21
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeanc
1952-04-10
A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, A
1943-10-08
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie.
1946-03-01
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspic
1938-01-16
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fia
1936-08-01
A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.
1948-01-31
The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
1948-09-17
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive fr
1928-07-01
The Beagles and the Hickses are two mountain families that have been feuding all their lives. The Hi
1944-10-05
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet h
1947-03-05
A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighb
1935-05-31
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which
1937-10-11
A young married couple whose plans for their life together haven't turned out as expected decide to
1946-02-22
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the cro
1944-02-12
A famous singer reflects on her life, including her journey from being an orphan to her fame as a si
1940-12-09
Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the cl
1939-12-30
A gangster is unable to go straight after returning home from prison.
1938-08-26
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France,
1948-03-05
Big cats are killing people... after being trained by a twisted lion tamer.
1948-02-20
Cole Armin comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin, a despotic and hard-hearted czar
1946-12-31
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself
1929-11-10
Marty Reid, the star quarterback at Sanford College, is constantly singled out by the opposition for
1933-05-05
Two wannabe bandits join the service of a dashing nobleman, who secretly masquerades as Fra Diavolo,
1933-08-17
A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massiv
1939-12-09
The Man From Montreal is a lively entry in Universal's Richard Arlen-Andy Devine action series. The
1928-01-14
In love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's s
1937-06-19
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
1971-02-19
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in
1944-10-20
Fibber McGee and Molly innocently get mixed up with the federal government.
1951-06-02
US marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to ge
1954-08-04
Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he fi
1933-12-15
Edited down version of Sagebrush Trail. Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant escap
1936-04-06
Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth.
1958-04-30
When a crooked sheriff murders his employer, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney decides to avenge the de