---
name: "Joan Chandler"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joan-chandler"
fi1m_id: "joan-chandler"
imdb_id: "nm0151401"
tmdb_id: 17664
wikidata_id: "Q275340"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 August 1923"
died: "11 May 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:25:31.722061+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joan Chandler

## Identity

Joan Chandler

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joan-chandler
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joan-chandler
- **IMDb ID:** nm0151401
- **TMDB ID:** 17664
- **Wikidata ID:** Q275340
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Chandler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q275340, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151401/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17664

Actor. Born 24 August 1923 in Butler, Pennsylvania, USA. Died 11 May 1979.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 August 1923, Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Died:** 11 May 1979
- **Also known as:** Joan Cheeseman
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Chandler, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q275340, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151401/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17664

## Biography

Joan Chandler (born Joan Imel Cheeseman) was an American actress. She was born on 24 August 1923 in Butler, Pennsylvania, and died on 11 May 1979 in New York City. She studied at Bennington College and trained in ballet, touring with a ballet company before turning to acting. A founding member of the Actors Studio, she appeared on stage, in film and on television from the mid-1940s to around 1960.

Chandler made her film debut in *Humoresque* (1946) as Gina Romney and played Janet Walker in Alfred Hitchcock’s *Rope* (1948). She appeared in a small number of other films, including *Dragstrip Riot* (1958). On Broadway she performed in *The Late George Apley* (1944), *Where’s Charley?* (replacement, 1948–1950), *The Lady from the Sea* (1950), *My 3 Angels* (1953) and *The Disenchanted* (replacement, 1958–1959). She also worked in television, including episodes of *Studio One* and *The Philco Television Playhouse*. She was married twice, first to playwright David McKay and later to Dr Charles C. Hogan; both marriages ended in divorce.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ibdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Rope* (1948), Fi1m 76, as Janet Walker — [page](https://film.one/film/rope.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Too Soon to Love* (1960), Actor
- *New York Confidential* (1959), series, Actor
- *Dragstrip Riot* (1958), as Lisa
- *Pulitzer Prize Playhouse* (1950), series, Actor
- *Robert Montgomery Presents* (1950), series, Actor
- *Suspense* (1949), series, Actor
- *Studio One* (1948), series, as Jean Stewart
- *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, Actor
- *Rope* (1948), as Janet Walker — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/rope.md)
- *Humoresque* (1947), as Gina Romney

## Gallery

- ![Joan Chandler](https://film.one/media/person/3865868/gallery-1856d15782bd.jpg) Joan Chandler — Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Joan_Chandler_in_Rope_trailer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Joan Chandler](https://film.one/media/person/3865868/gallery-f5796d2b1419.jpg) Joan Chandler — Image via TMDB
- ![Joan Chandler](https://film.one/media/person/3865868/gallery-35c49218abfc.jpg) Joan Chandler — Image via TMDB

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