George Chandler
- Birthday
- Jun 30, 1898
Bio: Comic actor George Chandler entered the University of Illinois after World War I service, paying for his education by playing in an orchestra. He continued moonlighting in the entertainment world in the early 1920s, working as an insurance salesman by day and performing at night. By the end of the decade he was a seasoned vaudevillian, touring with a one-man-band… More Bio: Comic actor George Chandler entered the University of Illinois after World War I service, paying for his education by playing in an orchestra. He continued moonlighting in the entertainment world in the early 1920s, working as an insurance salesman by day and performing at night. By the end of the decade he was a seasoned vaudevillian, touring with a one-man-band act called "George Chandler, the Musical Nut." He began making films in 1927, appearing almost exclusively in comedies; perhaps his best-known appearance of the early 1930s was as W.C.Fields' prodigal son Chester in the 1932 2-reeler The Fatal Glass of Beer. Chandler became something of a good-luck charm for director William Wellman, who cast the actor in comedy bits in many of his films; Wellman reserved a juicy supporting role for Chandler as Ginger Rogers' no-good husband in Roxie Hart (1942). In all, Chandler made some 330 movie appearances. In the early 1950s, Chandler served two years as president of the Screen Actors Guild, ruffling the hair of many prestigious stars and producers with his strongly held political views. From 1958 through 1959, George Chandler was featured as Uncle Petrie on the Lassie TV series, and in 1961 he starred in a CBS sitcom that he'd helped develop, Ichabod and Me. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Filmography
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
- Elderly Man
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Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
- Clerk at DMV
- 31%
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Griffin and Phoenix (1976)
- Old Man
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Capone (1975)
- Prosecutor
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Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
- Grocer
- 76%
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George Chandler Videos
Hans Christian Andersen
2 minutes 45 seconds
Broadway Melody Of 1940
4 minutes 31 seconds
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
2 minutes 43 seconds
This Woman Is Dangerous
30 seconds
Perfect Strangers
30 seconds
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