John Chandos (actor) explained

John Chandos McConnell (27 July 1917 – 21 September 1987) was a Scottish film and television actor.^[1]

He won a scholarship to RADA in 1936. During the Second World War he served with the Seaforth Highlanders, Parachute Regiment^[2] and the GHQ Liaison Regiment.^[3]

He appeared in the 1967 The Avengers episode entitled "Murdersville".

Filmography

• 49th Parallel (1941) - Lohrmann
• The Next of Kin (1942) - No 16: his contact
• The First of the Few (1942) - Krantz
• The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) - Employment Agent (uncredited)
• Secret People (1952) - John
• Derby Day (1952) - Man on Train (uncredited)
• The Crimson Pirate (1952) - Stub Ear
• Trent's Last Case (1952) - Tim O'Reilly (uncredited)
• The Long Memory (1953) - Boyd
• 36 Hours (1953) - Orville Hart
• The Million Pound Note (1954) -2nd. Businessman at Bumbles Hôtel (uncredited)
• The Love Lottery (1954) - Gulliver Kee
• Twist of Fate (1954 film) (1954) - Nino, The Hairdresser (U.S. ' Beautiful Stranger ')
• Beau Brummell (1954) - Silva (uncredited)
• Carrington V.C. (1955) - Adjutant John Rawlinson
• Simba (1955) - Settler at Meeting
• The Ship That Died of Shame (1955) - Raines
• One Way Out (1955) - Danvers
• The Green Man (1956) - McKechnie
• The Battle of the River Plate (1956) - Dr. Otto Langmann - German Minister, Montevideo
• Time Without Pity (1957) - First Journalist
• Doctor at Large (1957) - O'Malley
• I Accuse! (1958) - Drumont
• The Witness (1959) - Lodden
• Jungle Street (1960) - Jacko Fielding
• The Little Ones (1965) - Lord Brantley
• Two Gentlemen Sharing (1969) - Advertising Executive (final film role)

Notes and References

1. Web site: John Chandos. 2010-09-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20121021173404/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/133107. 2012-10-21. dead.
2. Web site: Mocavo and Findmypast are coming together – findmypast.com. www.mocavo.com.
3. Book: Christie, Stuart. My Granny Made Me an Anarchist: The Cultural and Political Formation of a West of Scotland "baby-boomer". 11 November 2017. ChristieBooks.com. 9781873976142. Google Books.