Lane Chandler

Lane Chandler 18991972 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 reallife 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 lowbudget westerns in the 1930s but was more often cast as the leading mans 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