John Davis Chandler (January 28, 1935 – February 16, 2010) was an American actor.
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Life
Chandler was born in Hinton, West Virginia. He died at age 75 in Toluca Lake, California from cancer.
Career
In 1961, he portrayed the gangster Vincent Coll in Mad Dog Coll, and a kind of mad-dog teen killer in The Young Savages later the same year. He appeared in several of Sam Peckinpah's Western films, and on television between the 1960s and 1990s in The Rifleman; Route 66; Straightaway; The Virginian; Adam-12; Gunsmoke; Walker, Texas Ranger; Quincy, M.E.; Columbo; Murder, She Wrote; and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In 1962, Chandler appeared as an escaped convict named Dog on The Virginian in the episode titled "The Brazen Bell".
Chandler had a famous exchange of lines with Clint Eastwood's character in The Outlaw Josey Wales. When asked if he is a bounty hunter, Chandler says, "A man's got to do somethin' for a livin' these days", to which Wales replies, "Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy."