Jeff Chandler

Highest Rated: 89% Broken Arrow (1950)

Lowest Rated: 33% Johnny O'Clock (1947)

Birthday: Dec 15, 1918

Birthplace: Not Available

Born in Brooklyn, Jeff Chandler attended that borough's Erasmus High School, the spawning ground of many top stage and film personalities. He spent two years in summer stock before serving in World War II. After the war, he became a busy radio actor, co-starring as the clueless Professor Boynton on the popular Eve Arden sitcom Our Miss Brooks. His first film appearance was a one-line bit in Columbia's Johnny O'Clock (1947). He made a better impression as an Israeli freedom fighter in Universal's Sword in the Desert (1948)--so much so that the studio's executives ordered that Chandler's role be expanded during filming. In 1950, Chandler made the first of three screen appearances as sagacious Apache chief Cochise in Broken Arrow. Though he worried that he'd be typecast in Native American parts, Chandler became a top leading man of the 1950s, his sex appeal curiously heightened by his prematurely gray hair. Shortly after completing his role in Merrill's Marauders (1962), Jeff Chandler died at age 42, the victim of blood poisoning following spinal surgery.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Thunder In The Sun	Actor	—	2012
No Score Yet	Camp Hell (Camp Hope)	Executive Producer	—	2010
No Score Yet	Merril's Marauders	Frank D. Merrill	—	1962
No Score Yet	Return to Peyton Place	Lewis Jackman	—	1961
No Score Yet	The Plunderers	Sam Christy	—	1960
No Score Yet	Ten Seconds to Hell	Karl Wirtz	—	1959
No Score Yet	The Jayhawkers	Luke Darcy	—	1959
No Score Yet	Man in the Shadow	Sheriff Ben Sadler	—	1957
No Score Yet	Drango	Major Clint Drango	—	1957
No Score Yet	Jeanne Eagels	Sal Satori	—	1957
No Score Yet	The Tattered Dress	James Gordon Blane	—	1957
No Score Yet	Pillars of the Sky	1st Sgt. Emmett Bell	—	1956
No Score Yet	Away All Boats	Capt. Jebediah S. Hawks	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Toy Tiger	Rick Todd	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Spoilers	Roy Glennister	—	1955
No Score Yet	Female on the Beach	Drummond Hall	—	1955
No Score Yet	Allen in Movieland	Actor	—	1955
No Score Yet	Foxfire	Jonathan Dartland	—	1955
43%	Sign of the Pagan	Marcian	—	1954
No Score Yet	Taza, Son of Cochise	Cochise	—	1954
No Score Yet	War Arrow	Maj. Howell Brady	—	1953
No Score Yet	The Great Sioux Uprising	Jonathan Westgate	—	1953
No Score Yet	Red Ball Express	Lt. Chick Campbell	—	1952
No Score Yet	The Battle at Apache Pass	Cochise	—	1952
No Score Yet	Yankee Buccaneer	Actor	—	1952
No Score Yet	Double Crossbones	Narrator	—	1951
No Score Yet	Flame of Araby	Tamerlane	—	1951
No Score Yet	Bird of Paradise	Tenga	—	1951
No Score Yet	Deported	Vic Smith	—	1950
No Score Yet	Two Flags West	Maj. Henry Kenniston	—	1950
89%	Broken Arrow	Cochise	—	1950
No Score Yet	Abandoned	Chief McRae	—	1949
No Score Yet	Sword in the Desert	Kurta	—	1949
No Score Yet	Roses Are Red	John Jones aka The Knuckle	—	1947
33%	Johnny O'Clock	Turk	—	1947
No Score Yet	Invisible Wall	Al Conway	—	1947

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