Actor. He was a tall, rugged, handsome actor best known for playing the character roles of ranchers, lieutenants, army sergeants, soldiers, henchmen, attorneys, policemen, jailers, train conductors, steelworkers, cowboys, judges, pastors, sheriffs, forest rangers, photographers, miners, guerillas, privates, indians, guards, rangers, reporters, historical figures, captains, corporals, mounties, constables, majors, and marshals, usually in war films, crime films, and western films and western television series. He will be best remembered for playing the role of 'Bob Rand' in the western film, "Lawless Valley" (1932). The film which written by, directed by, and starred J.P. McGowan, which was also written for the screen by Oliver Drake, and which also starred Gertrude Messinger, Anne Howard, Si Jenks, Richard Cramer, Chuck Baldra, Hank Bell, and Dick Botiller, tells the story of a cattleman's association who hires a range detective to track down and capture a notorious rustler known as El Lobo. He is also best remembered for playing the role of 'Tom Pike' in five episodes of the classic western television series, "Lawman," from 1958 to 1959. The western television series which also starred John Russell, Peter Brown, Peggie Castle, and Emile Avery, tells the story of Marshal Dan Troop of Laramie, Wyoming, and his Deputy Johnny McKay, an orphan Marshal Dan Troop took under his wing. He was born one of five children as Robert Chandler Oakes in Pisek, North Dakota, (some sources say South Dakota), to George Washington Oakes (1876-1909), a horse rancher, and his wife Irene Jane West Oakes (1878-1961), on June 4, 1899. The family moved first to Culbertson, Montana, and then to Helena, Montana, where he was educated locally and later graduated from high school. He was also drafted during World War I. He then attended the distinguished Montana Wesleyan College in Helena, Montana, where he was a star football player, and a member of the "W" Athletics Club, but later dropped out after he found work as a driver of a tourist bus at Yellowstone National Park. He later moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked as an auto mechanic and on ranches before the film director John Waters offered him some small parts in westerns that were being made through Paramount Studios. He adopted the name of Lane Chandler and made his actual film debut playing the role of an 'Extra' in the short comedy film, "The Idle Class" (1921). The film which was directed by, written by, and starred Charlie Chaplin, and which also starred Edna Purviance, Charles Aber, Laura Anson, Gladys Baxter, and Loyal Underwood, tells the story of a tramp who sneaks into an upper-class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband. The conflict here is between Charlie the wealthy and alcoholic husband and Charlie the Tramp: the idle rich and the idle poor. In the opening scene, wealthy Edna descends from a Pullman car while the Tramp crawls out from under another one. At a fancy masquerade ball, Edna's husband appears as a knight whose visor is stuck closed. The Tramp shows up, running from the law, and is mistaken for the husband. Edna finds the new "husband" more to her liking than the real one. When true identities are revealed, a fight breaks out and the Tramp is ejected. Besides, playing the role of of an 'Extra' in the short comedy film, "The Idle Class" (1921), and playing the role of 'Bob Rand' in the western film, "Lawless Valley" (1932), his many other film credits include, "The Last Outlaw" (1927), "Open Range" (1927), "Love And Learn" (1938), "The Legion Of The Condemned" (1928), "Red Hair" (1928), "The Big Killing" (1928), "The First Kiss" (1928), "The Wolf Of Wall Street" (1929), "The Studio Murder Mystery" (1929), "The Single Standard" (1929), "The Forward Pass" (1929), "Firebrand Jordan" (1930), "The Lightning Express" (1930), "Rough Waters" (1930), "Beyond The Law" (1930), "Under Texas Skies" (1930), "The Primrose Path" (1931), "The Hurricane Horseman" (1931), "The Cheyenne Cyclone" (1931), "Riders Of The Rio" (1931), "Battling Buckaroo" (1932), "The Texas Tornado" (1932), "The Reckless Rider" (1932), "Guns For Hire" (1932), "The Devil Horse" (1932), "The Sign Of The Cross" (1932), "The Wyoming Whirlwind" (1932), "Via Point Express" (1933), "The Devil's Brother" (1933), "The Eagle And The Hawk" (1933), "Trouble Busters" (1933), "Corruption" (1933), "Fighting With Kit Carson" (1933), "Deluge" (1933), "War Of The Range" (1933), "The Wolf Dog" (1933), "Hold The Press" (1933), "Roman Scandals" (1933), "Sagebrush Trail" (1933), "Now I'll Tell" (1934), "Tomorrow's Children" (1934), "Beyond The Law" (1934), "The Girl From Missouri" (1934), "The Affairs Of Cellini" (1934), "The Merry Widow" (1934), "The Lone Bandit" (1935), "North Of Arizona" (1935), "The Phantom Empire" (1935), "The Outlaw Tamer" (1935), "Public Hero Number 1" (1935), "Coyote Trails" (1935), "A Face In The Fog" (1936), "The Bohemian Girl" (1936), "The Lawless Nineties" (1936), "The Return Of Jimmy Valentine" (1936), "Flash Gordon" (1935), "Hearts In Bondage" (1936), "Undersea Kingdom" (1936), "Winds Of The Wasteland" (1936), "Crash Donovan" (1936), "Idaho Kid" (1936), "The Black Coin" (1936), "The Magnificent Brute" (1936), "Law And Lead" (1936), "The Plainsman" (1936), "Four Days Wonder" (1936), "Three Smart Girls" (1936), "Stormy Trails" (1936), "Sea Devils" (1937), "Sing While You're Able" (1937), 'When Love Is Young" (1937), "Law Of The Ranger" (1937), "San Quentin" (1937), "Kid Galahad" (1937), "Reckless Ranger" (1937), "The Road Back" (1937), "Fly Away Baby" (1937), "The Singing Marine" (1937), "Public Wedding" (1937), "Heroes Of The Alamo" (1937, He plyed the role of 'Davy Crockett' in the film), "Confession" (1937), "Sea Racketeers" (1937), "The Firefly" (1937), "The Lady Fights Back" (1937), "Carnival Queen" (1937), "The Wrong Road" (1937), "Alcatraz Island" (1937), "Conquest" (1937), "The First One Hundred Years" (1937), "Zorro Rides Again" (1937), "Missing Witnesses" (1937), "She Loved A Fireman" (1937), "Exiled To Shanghai" (1937), "Rosalie" (1937), "Tim Tyler's Luck" (1937), "Wells Fargo" (1937), 'The Buccaneer" (1938), "The Jury's Secret" (1938), "The Lone Ranger" (1938), "Rocket Ship" (1938), "The Daredevil Drivers" (1938), "Start Cheering" (1938), "Land Of Fighting Men" (1938), "Flash Gordon's Trip To Mars" (1938), "Over The Wall" (1938), "Heart Of Arizona" (1938), "Two Gun Justice" (1938), "Marie Antoinette" (1938), "Passport Husband" (1938), "Many Sappy Returns" (1938), "I Am The Law" (1938), "Too Hot To Handle" (1938), "Red Barry" (1938), "Campus Confessions" (1938), "Crime Takes A Holiday" (1938), "The Spider's Web" (1938), "Mutts To You" (1938), "Girls On Probation" (1938), "Come On, Rangers!" (1938), "Angels With Dirty Faces" (1938), "Hawk Of The WIlderness" (1938), "Heart Of The North" (1938), "Three Little Sew And Sews" (1939), "The Phantom Creeps" (1939), "Blackwell's Island" (1939), "St. Louis Blues" (1939), "Made For Each Other" (1939), "Risky Business" (1939), "Secret Service Of The Air" (1939), "Southward Ho!" (1939), "North Of The Yukon" (1939), "A Ducking They Did Go" (1939), "Buck Rogers" (1939), "Code Of The Streets" (1939), "The Law Comes To Texas" (1939), "Union Pacific" (1939), "Man Of Conquest" (1939), "The Man In The Iron Mask" (1939), "The Oregon Trail" (1939), "Smuggled Cargo" (1939), "Outpost Of The Mounties" (1939), "Calling All Marines" (1939), "Rio" (1939), "Oklahoma Frontier" (1939), "Taming Of The West" (1939), "Saga Of Death Valley" (1939), "Man From Montreal" (1939), 'Invisible Stripes" (1939), "The Green Hornet" (1940), "My Little Chickadee" (1940), "Charlie Chan In Panama" (1940), "Hi-Yo Silver" (1940), "Pioneers Of The West" (1940), "Virginia City" (1940), "Midnight Limited" (1940), "Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe" (1940), "Murder In The Air" (1940), "Wagons Westward" (1940), "Deadwood Dick" (1940), "The Howards Of Virginia" (1940), "Junior G-Men" (1940), "North West Mounted Police" (1940), "Pony Post" (1940), "The Great Plane Robbery" (1940), "Santa Fe Trail" (1940), "The Green Hornet Strikes Again!" (1940), "Road Show" (1941), "So You Won't Squawk?" (1941), "The Round Up" (1941), "I Wanted Wings" (1941), "Sky Raiders" (1941), "Lady From Louisiana" (1941), "The Spider Returns" (1941), "Sergeant York" (1941), "Six-Gun Gold" (1941), "Last Of The Duanes" (1941), "They Died With Their Boots On" (1941), "Among The Living" (1941), "Don Winslow Of The Navy" (1942), "The Bugle Sounds" (1942), "Born To Sing" (1942), "Reap The Wild Wind" (1942), "Sundown Jim" (1942), "Men Of Texas" (1942), "The Pride Of The Yankees" (1942), "Invisible Agent" (1942), "Secret Enemies" (1942), "Moonlight In Havana" (1942), "The Valley Of Vanishing Men" (1942), "Arabian Nights" (1942), "They Got Me Covered" (1943), "Tenting Tonight On The Old Camp Ground" (1943), "Wild Horse Rustlers" (1943), "Hi'Ya Chum" (1943), "Behind Prison Walls" (1943), "Riders Of The Rio Grande" (1943), Alaska Highway" (1943), "Law Of The Saddle" (1943), "Phantom Of The Opera" (1943), "A Lady Takes A Chance" (1943), "Crazy House" (1943), "Flesh And Fantasy" (1943), "The North Star" (1943), "Riding High" (1943), "In Old Oklahoma" (1943), "Tornado" (1943), "Lucky Cowboy" (1944), "Men On Her Mind" (1944), "The Lady And The Monster" (1944), "Her Primitive Man" (1944), "Follow The Boys" (1944), "The Story Of Dr. Wassell" (1944), "Once Upon A Time" (1944), "Silent Partner" (1944), "Waterfront" (1944), "Trigger Trail" (1944), "Louisiana Hayride" (1944), "Silver City Kid" (1944), "Janie" (1944), "Casanova Brown" (1944), "Trigger Law" (1944), "Strange Affair" (1944), "Laura" (1944), "Heavenly Days" (1944), "Riders Of The Santa Fe" (1944), "The Great Mike" (1944), "Destiny" (1944), "Sagebrush Heroes" (1945), "High Powered" (1945), "Manhunt Of Mystery Island" (1945), "Along Came Jones" (1945), "Incendiary Blonde" (1945), "The Purple Monster Strikes" (1945), "Rustlers' Hideout" (1945), "Senorita From The West" (1945), "The Royal Mounted Rides Again" (1945), "Saratoga Trunk" (1945), "San Antonio" (1945), "The Spider" (1945), "The Bandit Of Sherwood Forest" (1946), "Tomorrow Is Forever" (1946), "A Guy Could Change" (1946), "A Letter For Evie" (1946), "Idea Girl" (1946), "Behind Green Lights" (1946), "Little Giant" (1946), "Gunning For Vengeance" (1946), "Blonde Alibi" (1946), "Rainbow Over Texas" (1946), "Two-Fisted Stranger" (1946), "Lover Come Back" (1946), "The Dark Horse" (1946), "Monsieur Beaucaire" (1946), "The Dark Mirror" (1946), "Terror Trail" (1946), "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946), "Duel In The Sun" (1946), "California" (1947), "Pursued" (1947), "The Vigilantes Return" (1947), "The Corpse Came C.O.D." (1947), "The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty" (1947), "Heaven Only Knows" (1947), "Unconquered" (1947), "The Tender Years" (1948), "I Love Trouble" (1948), "Song Of My Heart" (1948), "Albuquerque" (1948), "Caged Fury" (1948), "The Big Clock" (1948), "Mr. Reckless" (1948), "Campus Sleuth" (1948), "Money Madness" (1948), "The Arizona Ranger" (1948), "Curiosity Shop: The Story Of The Aluminum Research Laboratory" (1948), "Big Town Scandal" (1948), "The Street With No Name" (1948), "Return Of The Bad Men" (1948), "Northwest Stampede" (1948), "A Southern Yankee" (1948), "Red River" (1948), "Two Guys From Texas" (1948), "A Song Is Born" (1948), "Belle Starr's Daughter" (1948), "The Paleface" (1948), "The Wonderful Urge" (1948), "Salt Of The Earth" (1948), "California's Golden Beginning" (1948), "Dynamite" (1949), "The Lone Wolf And His Lady" (1949), "Riders Of The Whistling Pines" (1949), "Tulsa" (1949), "Samson And Delilah" (1949), "Montana" (1950), "Ambush" (1950), "Outcast Of Black Mesa" (1950), "The Admiral Was A LAdy" (1950), "Prairie Roundup" (1951), "Santa Fe" (1951), "Along The Great Divide" (1951), "A Millionaire For Christy" (1951), "The Well" (1951), "Cattle Queen" (1951), "The Big Night" (1951), "The Greatest Show On Earth" (1952), "The Big Trees" (1952), "The Hawk Of Wild River" (1952), "Rancho Notorious" (1952), "The San Francisco Story" (1952), "The Lion And The Horse" (1952), "The Lusty Men" (1952), "Cow Country" (1953), "Law And Order" (1953), "Take Me To Town" (1953), "Planet Outlaws" (1953), "The Charge At Feather River" (1953), "Gun Belt" (1953), "Thunder Over The Plains" (1953), "Calamity Jane" (1953), "Border River" (1954), "Silver Lode" (1954), "Return to Treasure Island" (1954), "Living It Up" (1954), "Prince Of Players" (1955), "The Man From Bitter Ridge" (1955), "Shotgun" (1955), "Tall Man Riding" (1955), "Creature With The Atom Brain" (1955), "Apache Ambush" (1955), "The Indian Fighter" (1955), "The Lone Ranger" (1956), "Great Day In The Morning" (1956), "The Rawhide Years" (1956), "The First Texan" (1956), "Canyon River" (1956), "The First Traveling Saleslady" (1956), "The Storm Rider" (1957), "The Left Handed Gun" (1958), "Quantrill's Raiders" (1958), "Space Master X-7" (1958), "The Buccaneer" (1958), "Zorro Rides Again" (1959), "Noose For A Gunman" (1960), "The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom Come" (1961), "Requiem For A Gunfighter" (1965), "Sharad Of Atlantis" (1966), "Purple Death From Outer Space" (1966), "Peril From The Planet Mongo" (1966), and "Captain Mephisto And The Transformation Machine" (1966). Besides, playing the role 'Tom Pike' in five episodes of the classic western television series, "Lawman," from 1958 to 1959, his many other television credits include, "The Lone Ranger," "The Living Christ Series," "Racket Squad," "Gang Busters," "Mr. & Mrs. North," "The Gene Autry Show," "The Range Rider," "The Johnny Carson Show," "The Adventures Of Kit Carson," "Waterfront," Stories Of The Century," "Adventures Of The Falcon," "The Cisco Kid," "Your Favorite Story," "Annie Oakley," "Schlitz Playhouse," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "The Mickey Mouse Club," "Corky And White Shadow," "Tales Of Wells Fargo," "Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon," "The Californians," "State Trooper," "The Restless Gun," "Colt .45," "Adventures Of Wild Bill Hickok," "Sugarfoot," "The Magical World Of Disney," "The Life And Legend Of Wyatt Earp," "The D.A.'s Man," "The Untouchables," "Bourbon Street Beat," "Overland Trail," "Gunslinger," "Stagecoach West," "Rawhide," 'Have Gun - Will Travel," "Maverick," "Bronco," "Cheyenne," "77 Sunset Strip," "Temple Houston," "The Great Adventure," "Lassie," "Hank," "Gunsmoke," and "Get Smart." His last film was playing a 'Party Guest' in the western comedy film, "One More Train To Rob" (1971). The film which was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, which was written for the screen by William Roberts, Don Tait, and Dick Nelson, and which also starred George Peppard, Diana Muldaur, Charles Seel, John Vernon, and Richard Loo, tells the story of after taking the fall for a train robbery, Harker Fleet is released from prison and exacts revenge on his former partners who cheated him out of his share. He retired from acting shortly thereafter. During his acting career, he also used the name Lane Arnold and Lane R. Chandler. Besides acting, he was also a successful businessman who had many industrial and property holdings. On an interesting note, he was good friends with actor Gary Cooper, and he was also screen tested for the role of the 'Frankenstein Monster,' which was eventually played by Glenn Strange, in the Sci-fi horror fantasy film, "House of Frankenstein" (1944). He passed away following a battle with heart disease in Los Angeles, California, on September 14, 1972, at the age of 73. His funeral service and cremation were held through the Pierce Brothers Hollywood Mortuary and he was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. He never married nor had any children.