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Chick Chandler is a Actor American born on 18 january 1905

Chick Chandler

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Birth name Fehmer Chandler
Nationality USA
Birth 18 january 1905
Death 30 september 1988 (at 83 years)

Chick Chandler (January 18, 1905 – September 30, 1988) was an American film character actor and bit player who appeared in more than 130 films from 1925 through the mid-1950s.

Chandler is known for his role as Toubo Smith in the short-lived Universal-produced television series Soldiers of Fortune. In the first episode of Johnny Staccato, he played a police detective who was friends with the title character. He also portrayed photographer "Billy Hackett" in the I Love Lucy episode "Ethel's Hometown." He retired in 1971 after his sixth appearance on Bonanza, starring Lorne Greene.

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Filmography of Chick Chandler (77 films)

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Nightmare in the Sun, 1h20
Directed by John Derek, Marc Lawrence
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Ursula Andress, John Derek, Aldo Ray, Sammy Davis Jr., Richard Jaeckel, Arthur O'Connell
Roles Bartender
Rating56% 2.811582.811582.811582.811582.81158
Beautiful young Marsha Wilson is married to a wealthy, jealous, much-older man. She picks up a handsome hitch-hiker one day, brings him back to husband Sam Wilson's ranch and falls for him.
The Patsy
The Patsy (1964)
, 1h41
Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Films about the labor movement, Films about school violence, Harcèlement au travail
Actors Jerry Lewis, Everett Sloane, Phil Harris, Keenan Wynn, Peter Lorre, John Carradine
Roles Hedda Hopper's Escort (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.0987953.0987953.0987953.0987953.098795
A famous comedian perishes in a plane crash. Members of his management team, worried that they will be jobless, decide to find someone to take his place as their "meal ticket". Stanley Belt (Jerry Lewis) is a bellboy at their hotel and they decide he will become their next star.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 2h34
Directed by Stanley Kramer, Carey Loftin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Dorothy Provine, Moe Howard
Roles Detective Outside Chinese Laundromat
Rating74% 3.7462153.7462153.7462153.7462153.746215
"Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante), wanted by police in a tuna factory robbery fifteen years ago and on the run from the police, careens his 1957 Ford Victoria off twisting, mountainous State Highway 74 near Palm Springs in Southern California and crashes. Five motorists stop to help him - Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), a dentist, Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters), a furniture mover, Dingy Bell (Mickey Rooney) and Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett), two friends on their way to Las Vegas, and J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle), who owns Pacific Edible Seaweed Company in Fresno. Just before he dies, Grogan tells the five about $350,000 buried in Santa Rosita State Park near the Mexican border under a mysterious "big W".
A Star Is Born, 3h1
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about television, Musical films
Actors Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan, Amanda Blake
Roles Man in Car at Diner (uncredited)
Rating74% 3.746553.746553.746553.746553.74655
Esther Blodgett is a talented aspiring singer with a band, and Norman Maine is a former matinee idol with a career in the early stages of decline. When he arrives intoxicated at a function at the Shrine Auditorium, the studio publicist attempts to keep him away from reporters. After an angry exchange, Norman rushes away and bursts onto a stage where an orchestra is performing. Blodgett takes him by the hand and pretends he is part of the act, thereby turning a potentially embarrassing and disruptive moment into an opportunity for the audience to greet Norman with applause.
It Should Happen to You, 1h26
Directed by George Cukor, Earl Bellamy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon, Michael O'Shea, Connie Gilchrist, Vaughn Taylor
Roles TV Engineer in Booth (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.596443.596443.596443.596443.59644
The script, by Garson Kanin, is about a naive young woman named Gladys Glover who yearns for fame. Strolling through Central Park, she meets a young handsome man named Pete Sheppard (Jack Lemmon). He is a maker of documentaries (apparently equipped only with a handheld 16mm camera). He is taking brief shots of people in the park. He films Gladys feeding pigeons and introduces himself.
Private Eyes, 1h4
Directed by Edward Bernds
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, David Gorcey, Bernard Gorcey, Robert Osterloh, Benny Bartlett
Roles Eddie
Rating61% 3.0997953.0997953.0997953.0997953.099795
Sach is punched in the nose by Herbie, a local kid who the boys know, and acquires the ability to read people's minds. Slip sees this as an opportunity to buy a detective agency and their first client is a beautiful blonde who is trying to escape from her connections with mobsters. She leaves behind a stolen mink coat and an envelope that would incriminate the mobsters. The mobsters, trying to get the envelope back, kidnap Herbie in the hopes to persuade the boys to return the envelope. Slip and Sach, after being tipped off where Herbie is being held, go there in disguise. They foil the mobsters plans and rescue Herbie.
Steel Town
Steel Town (1952)
, 1h25
Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ann Sheridan, John Lund, Howard Duff, Elaine Riley, James Best, Chick Chandler
Roles Ernie
Rating65% 3.2747053.2747053.2747053.2747053.274705
An attractive woman everybody knows as "Red" runs a restaurant. Her boyfriend Jim Denko, who works at the Kostane steel plant, comes to the restaurant for dinner, but when Red gives his steak away to a customer, words are exchanged and the men get into a fight.
Show Boat
Show Boat (1951)
, 1h47
Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Marge Champion, Gower Champion
Roles Trocadero Stage Assistant (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.4433953.4433953.4433953.4433953.443395
The basic plot remains the same as in the stage play and the 1936 film version. When the Cotton Blossom, Cap'n Andy Hawks's show boat, arrives in a Mississippi town to give a performance, a fistfight breaks out between leading man Steve Baker (Robert Sterling), and Pete (Leif Erickson), the boat's engineer who has been making passes at Steve's wife, leading lady Julie La Verne (Ava Gardner). But Cap'n Andy (Joe E. Brown) pretends to the assembled crowd that the two were really previewing a scene from one of the boat's melodramas. But Pete knows a dark secret about Julie, and he runs off to tell the local sheriff.
Lost Continent, 1h23
Directed by Sam Newfield
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, La préhistoire, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Whit Bissell, Chick Chandler, Sid Melton, Hugh Beaumont
Roles Lt. Danny Wilson
Rating33% 1.664461.664461.664461.664461.66446
Maj. Joe Nolan (Cesar Romero) is the head of an expedition to the South Pacific to retrieve an atomic-powered rocket that vanished without a trace. He had previously lived in a South American jungle, as has fellow serviceman and pilot Lt. Danny Wilson (Chick Chandler), who is also on the expedition. Aircraft mechanic Sgt. William Tatlow (Sid Melton) is also recruited for the expedition, which includes the three scientists who helped build the rocket.
Bright Leaf, 1h50
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal, Jack Carson, Donald Crisp, Gladys George
Roles Tobacco Auctioneer (uncredited)
Rating66% 3.344013.344013.344013.344013.34401
In 1894, poor but arrogant Brant Royle (Gary Cooper) returns to his hometown of Kingsmont, North Carolina, to settle his recently deceased uncle's estate. Years before, he had been driven out by powerful tobacco plantation owner Major Singleton (Donald Crisp) for daring to fall in love with Singleton's daughter Margaret (Patricia Neal).
The Great Rupert, 1h27
Directed by Irving Pichel
Genres Comedy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore, Tom Drake, Frank Orth, Sara Haden, Queenie Smith
Roles Phil Davis
Rating63% 3.1951353.1951353.1951353.1951353.195135
Rosalinda Amendola, the daughter of happy but impoverished former acrobats is in love with the boy next door, aspiring composer Pete Dingle. Though Pete's parents are wealthy, his miserly father Frank insists on hiding his money from his investments in the wall of their family home.
Curtain Call at Cactus Creek, 1h26
Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance, Western
Actors Donald O'Connor, Walter Brennan, Gale Storm, Vincent Price, Eve Arden, Chick Chandler
Roles Ralph
Rating63% 3.1846053.1846053.1846053.1846053.184605
A traveling troupe of entertainers arrives in Cactus Creek, Arizona, to put on a show. The act's stars are singer Lily Martin and her niece Julie and the flamboyant actor Tracy Holland, while a frustrated Eddie Timmons handles the lighting, sound effects and other duties, even though his ambition is to perform on stage. Eddie's in love with Julie.