Jeff Chandler was one of Universal Pictures' more popular male stars of the 1950s.
72 Facts About Jeff Chandler
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Jeff Chandler was raised by his mother after his parents separated when he was a child.
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Jeff Chandler attended Erasmus Hall High School, the alma mater of many stage and film personalities, where he acted in school plays; his schoolmates included Susan Hayward.
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Jeff Chandler's father was connected with the restaurant business and got his son a job as a restaurant cashier.
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Jeff Chandler said he always wanted to act, but courses for commercial art were cheaper, so he studied art for a year and worked as a layout artist for a mail-order catalogue at $18 a week.
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Jeff Chandler worked briefly in radio, then got a job in a stock company on Long Island as an actor and stage manager.
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Jeff Chandler formed his own company, the Shady Lane Playhouse, in Illinois in the summer of 1941.
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Jeff Chandler toured the Midwest with some success, presenting such plays as The Bad Man, Seventh Heaven, The New Minister, and Pigs.
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Jeff Chandler served for four years, mostly in the Aleutians, finishing with the rank of lieutenant.
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Jeff Chandler initially struggled to find work in Hollywood, and had spent all his savings when he got his first job as a radio actor in May 1946.
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Jeff Chandler went on to appear in episodes of anthology drama series such as Escape and Academy Award Theater, and became well known for playing the lead in Michael Shayne.
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Jeff Chandler was the first actor to portray Chad Remington in Frontier Town.
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Jeff Chandler tested for Columbia's The Loves of Carmen but did not get the part.
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Jeff Chandler went on to play small roles as gangsters in Roses are Red and The Invisible Wall, and a policeman in Mr Belvedere Goes to College.
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Jeff Chandler received more attention playing Eve Arden's love interest on radio in Our Miss Brooks, which debuted in July 1948 and became a massive hit.
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Jeff Chandler impressed studio executives so much with his work that shortly into filming, Universal signed him to a seven-year contract.
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Jeff Chandler's first film under the arrangement was a supporting role in Abandoned.
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In February 1953, I was making a second picture with Jeff Chandler, one called War Arrow.
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Jeff Chandler was a real sweetheart, but acting with him was like acting with a broomstick.
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Jeff Chandler had to be written out of his radio shows Michael Shayne and Our Miss Brooks for several weeks.
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Jeff Chandler was the first actor nominated for an Academy Award for portraying an American Indian.
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Jeff Chandler was meant to make Death on a Sidestreet and The Lady Count but neither ended up being made.
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Jeff Chandler went back to Fox for his second film for them, as an embittered Union cavalryman in Two Flags West for director Robert Wise.
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Jeff Chandler was reunited with Fox and Delmer Daves to play a Polynesian chief in Bird of Paradise, which Chandler admitted was a variation of his performance as Cochise.
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Jeff Chandler was announced for another film with Buckner, The Wild Bunch, which was not made; instead, he played an Arab chief in Flame of Araby, opposite Maureen O'Hara.
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Around this time, Jeff Chandler expressed his dissatisfaction with acting in film as opposed to radio:.
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Jeff Chandler lends his intelligence and personality to the role, but the greatest part of the performance belongs to the producer, who puts him in a certain type of part; the director, who tells him how to play it; and the cutter, who edits what's done.
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Jeff Chandler reprised his role as Cochise in another Western, The Battle at Apache Pass, for Universal.
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Jeff Chandler then went on to make a war film, Red Ball Express, and a swashbuckler, Yankee Buccaneer.
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Our Miss Brooks transferred to television, but Jeff Chandler was not permitted to do TV under his contract; his part was taken by Robert Rockwell.
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In July 1952, Jeff Chandler signed a fresh contract with Universal that doubled his salary.
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Jeff Chandler's first movie under this was a Western, The Great Sioux Uprising.
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Jeff Chandler missed out on the lead in the remake of Magnificent Obsession, for which he had been mooted; the part was taken by Rock Hudson, who had supported Chandler in Iron Man.
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Jeff Chandler played Cochise for the third time, a cameo in Taza, Son of Cochise, starring Hudson, who soon overtook Jeff Chandler as Universal's biggest male star.
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In 1954, Jeff Chandler was starting to recognize how heavy his workload was:.
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Jeff Chandler was replaced in the role by George Nader.
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Jeff Chandler spoke of making Young Moses and a Western with friends Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, but neither film was made.
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Jeff Chandler said that "being a movie star isn't worth it":.
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Jeff Chandler made up with Universal, which cast him in Lady Godiva of Coventry.
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Jeff Chandler refused the role and was replaced again by George Nader, but this time, the dispute was not over money, but due to Jeff Chandler's overwork.
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The Los Angeles Times wrote that Jeff Chandler "is proving remarkable in performing singing duty, even though he is not exactly a singing type".
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Jeff Chandler made a Western, Pillars of the Sky, then had a change of pace with the comedy The Toy Tiger, the fourth movie he made that year.
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Jeff Chandler is so happy in his private life these days that he's doing everything the studio wants.
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Towards the end of the year, Jeff Chandler formed his own production company, Earlmar, with his agent Meyer Mishkin.
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However, Jeff Chandler intended to continue to make films for Universal under a multipicture contract.
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Jeff Chandler was voted the seventh-most popular star with British cinema goers.
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In 1956, Universal gave Jeff Chandler a leave of absence from his contract with them "for a period of several months" to enable him to make his own movie for Earlmar.
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In exchange for this, Jeff Chandler was to make two more films for Universal under his original contract with them, then enter into a new arrangement under which he would appear in two films a year over three years.
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Jeff Chandler had commitments to make two films per year at Universal until 1959.
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Jeff Chandler moved to Columbia and acted with Kim Novak in Jeanne Eagels.
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Jeff Chandler followed this with two films for Universal, The Lady Takes a Flyer with Lana Turner, and Raw Wind in Eden with Esther Williams.
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Jeff Chandler was to star opposite Tony Curtis in Operation Petticoat, but fell ill and had to withdraw.
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Jeff Chandler said he was under contract to Universal to make two films a year at $60,000 per film for 1957 and $75,000 per film for 1958.
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The court ordered Jeff Chandler to continue paying $1,500 per month.
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Jeff Chandler was involved in a will dispute concerning his stepfather in 1960.
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Jeff Chandler was a cousin of actor David Roya, who played the young villain Bernard Posner in Billy Jack.
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Jeff Chandler had nearly lost an eye and had been visibly scarred in an auto accident years earlier.
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Jeff Chandler had a relationship with Gloria DeHaven that was exposed in Confidential magazine.
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Esther Williams wrote in her 1999 autobiography that she broke off their relationship and that Jeff Chandler was a cross dresser.
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Jeff Chandler represented the Screen Actors Guild during talks throughout the 1960 actors' strike.
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Jeff Chandler had injections to deaden the pain and enable him to finish the production.
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At the time of his death, Jeff Chandler was involved with British actress Barbara Shelley.
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Tony Curtis and Gerald Mohr were among the pallbearers at Jeff Chandler's funeral, attended by more than 1,500 people.
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Jeff Chandler was buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City.
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Jeff Chandler's ex-wife sued his estate for $80,000 for money owed under their divorce settlement.
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Jeff Chandler looked as though he had been dreamed up by one of those artists who specialise in male physique studies, or a mite further up the artistic scale, he might have been plucked bodily from some modern mural on a biblical subject.
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The famed animated action-adventure series Jonny Quest's handsome, white-haired, veteran special agent bodyguard Race Bannon's design was modeled after Jeff Chandler by show creator Doug Wildey.
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Jeff Chandler had a concurrent career as a singer and recording artist, releasing several albums and playing nightclubs.
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Jeff Chandler put together an act and we opened at the Riviera.
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Jeff Chandler came with a conductor, piano player, light man, press agent, and manager.
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None of it helped, and everybody raved about Jeff Chandler's singing, but let's face it: He really didn't sing very well.
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Jeff Chandler left to work on a movie after three and a half weeks.