- His death from blood poisoning following surgery was deemed malpractice and resulted in a large lawsuit and settlement for his children.
- Had concurrent success as a recording artist, wrote music, played violin, and owned Chandler Music, a publishing company.
- Possessed of a fine singing voice, at the height of his film fame, he recorded several successful albums for Liberty Records.
- Childhood friend and neighbor of actress Susan Hayward
- He stood 6' 4" by the time he was fifteen, and started to gray when he was eighteen.
- Both daughters, Jamie (1947-2003) and Dana (1948-2002) died of cancer, as did his mother, maternal aunt, uncle and grandfather.
- The Jonny Quest character "Race Bannon" was modeled on Jeff Chandler.
- Tony Curtis was a pallbearer at Chandler's funeral.
- After his friend Sammy Davis Jr. lost an eye in an accident and was in danger of losing the other, Chandler offered to give Davis one of his own eyes. However this would have been impossible due to the billions of nerves.
- Scar across eye received in a truck accident.
- In November 1956, his public support for Israel's invasion of the Sinai peninsula during the Suez Crisis led to his films being banned in Arab countries.
- Following his Oscar nominated performance as Cochise in Broken Arrow (1950), Chandler carved a solid niche for himself playing Native American Indians, although his movies seldom rose above co-feature level.
- Studio make-up departments had to shave Chandler's thick body hair in many of his films. He reportedly had to spend much of his career in itchy discomfort because of the razor stubble on his chest and back.
- Portrayed Philip Boynton on CBS Radio's "Our Miss Brooks" (1948-1957).
- He was very proud of his Jewish heritage.
- A very committed Zionist activist, he starred in the first Biblical film to be made in Israel, A Story of David: The Hunted (1960). During filming he met the Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
- Daughter, Dana Chandler Grossel (Grossel was her father's real last name), gave him two grandsons. His other daughter, Jamie Tucker, gave him granddaughter Jana Fourtune.
- He was the one who encouraged character actor Jimmy Murphy to go to Hollywood. Murphy appeared with Chandler in Jeanne Eagels (1957).
- He was mentioned as the possible lead for the television police drama "The Asphalt Jungle" when that show was in development in 1960.
- Gerald Mohr was a pallbearer at his funeral.
- Both Chandler (whose second portrayal of Chiricahua Apache Chief Cochise this is) and his "The Battle at Apache Pass" co-star, Susan Cabot (real name Harriet Pearl Shapiro), were Jewish, following in a long line of distinctly non-Indian actors playing Indians in Hollywood Westerns.
- A liberal Democrat, he was part of the Hollywood contingent that worked for the election of John F. Kennedy as President in 1960.
- His former lover Esther Williams, in her tell-all 1999 autobiography, put Chandler back in the headlines after asserting that he was a cross-dresser. She told him, "Jeff, you're too big for polka dots.".
- He wrote the lyrics to the title song to Six Bridges to Cross.
- He was a heavy smoker.
- Daughter Jamie was a teacher.
- Daughter Jamie C.Tucker had 2 granddaughters, not 1.
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