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Jeff Chandler (born Ira Grossel; December 15, 1918 – June 17, 1961) was an American actor, film producer and singer best remembered for playing Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950), for which he was Oscar nominated. He was one of Universal Pictures's most popular male stars of the 1950s, his best known other credits including Sword in the Desert ...
Jeff Chandler V. Jeff Chandler. Actor, Singer. He is best remembered for playing the role of the legendary Native American Apache chief Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950), and for being one of Universal International's most popular male stars of the decade, with his sex appeal, prematurely gray hair, and ruggedly-handsome tanned features. Born Ira...
Biography. Tough, virile lead with prematurely steel grey, wavy hair and a muscular physique who starred in action films of the late 1940s and 50s, often as American Indians (three times as Cochise), gangsters, cavalrymen and "natives." Not a docile star, Chandler rebelled against Universal's mediocre action projects and was suspended several ...
Jeff Chandler. Highest Rated: 91% Broken Arrow (1950) Lowest Rated: 43% Sign of the Pagan (1954) Birthday: Dec 15, 1918. Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA. Tough, virile lead with prematurely ...
Jeff Chandler was an American film actor and singer in the 1950s. Chandler was born Ira Grossel to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of Anna and Phillip Grossel. He attended Erasmus Hall High School, the alma mater of many stage and film personalities. Later, he took a drama course at the Feagin School of Dramatic Art in New ...
The Great Sioux Uprising. Broken Arrow. David the Outlaw. Man in the Shadow. Foxfire. Mr. Belvedere Goes to College. The Iron Man. Pillars of the Sky. The Plunderers.
Severe difficulties arose; an artery was damaged, and Chandler hemorrhaged. On May 17, in a seven-and-a-half-hour emergency operation over-and-above the original surgery, he was given 55 pints of blood. On May 27, he received yet another operation, where he received an additional 20 pints of blood. The actor tragically passed away on June 17, 1961.
