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Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler
Born: Dec 05, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Died: Jun 17, 1961 in Culver City, California
Occupation: Actor,
Active: '50s
Major Genres: Drama, Adventure
Career Highlights: Merrill's Marauders, Broken Arrow, Raw Wind in Eden
First Major Screen Credit: Abandoned (1949)
2 Videos for Jeff Chandler
Away All Boats (1956) Broken Arrow (1950)
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Biography:

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.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.