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Jeff Chandler
1915/1918 -- 06/17/1961
Chronology
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1918 Born in Brooklyn, NY
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Birth name - Ira Grossel
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Attended Erasmus Hall H.S.
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Served in WW II
- Appeared in Comedy and drama on radio, such as:
- Damon Runyon Theater
- The Eternal Light
- Escape
- Four Star Playhouse
- Michael Shayne, Detective (title role)
- Our Miss Brooks (Philip Boynton)
- The Privite Practice of Dr. Dana (title role)
- The Screen Directors' Playhouse
- Tell It Again
- The Whistler
- 1946- Married Marjorie Hoshelle
- Two Daughters
- 1st Film was Johnny O'Clock
- 1950 - Academy Award Nomination - Cochise in Broken Arrow
- 1954 - Divorced Marjorie Hoshelle
- 1961 - His last film was Merill's Marauders
- Leading ladies in film:
- June Allyson
- Joan Crawford
- Rhonda Fleming
- Maureen O'Hara
- Jane Russell
- Esther Williams
- Susan Hayward (close friend)
- 1961 - Injured back playing baseball with USA Special Forces soldiers. Had surgery at Culver City hospital for herniated disc. An artery was damaged. The operation was 7.5 hours using 55 pints of blood. He had a follow-up operation using 20 pints of blood.
- 1961 - Died on June 17. Large malpractice lawsuit and settlement for the children occured.
- Tony Curtis & Gerald Mohr were pallbearers at funeral.
- Interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetary in Culver City, CA.
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Evertt Sloane
10/01/1909 -- 08/06/1965
Chronology
- 1909 - Born in Manhattan, N.Y.
- Attended University of Pennsylvania
- Joined a theater company
- Became a Wall Street Runner
- Returned to theater after Wall Street crash
- Joined Orson Welles Theater
- 1941 - Played part of Bernstein in Citizen Kane
- 1940's - Radio actor in following programs:
- The Afffairs of Peter Salem
- Betty & Bob (soap)
- Beyond Tomorrow
- Bulldog Drummond
- Campbell Playhouse
- Cavalcade of America
- Central City (soap)
- Cloak and Dagger
- Columbia Presents Corwin
- Court of Missing Heirs
- Creeps By Night
- Crime & Peter Chambers
- Crime Doctor
- Crime Does Not Pay
- Danny Kaye Show
- Ford Theater
- Goldbergs
- Inner Sactum Mysteries
- Les Miserables
- Listening Post
- Man Behind the Gun (narrator)
- March of Time
- Mercury Theater on the Air
- Mysterious Traveler
- The Shadow
- So This is Radio
- Studio One
- This is Nora Drake
- Twenty First Precinct
- Valient Lady (soap)
- Words at War
- You Can't Take it With You
- etc.
- 1945 - Acts in Broadway "Boy Meets Girl!"
- 1960 - Wrote songs in "From A to Z" Revue
- Worked in TV - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"
- 1960-1961 - Voice of Dick Tracy in 130 cartoon features
- 1964 - Also voice part in "Adventures of Johnny Quest"
- Wrote lyrics for "Fishing Hole" theme song on the Andy Griffith Show which were never used
- 1965 - Committed suicide at 55 due to blindness by glaucoma
- Buried at Angelus-Rosedale Cemetary in Los Angeles, CA
