Chandler Cowles
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Chandler Cowles
| birthname = Chandler Ruel Cowles
| birth_date = September 29, 1917
| birth_place = New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
| death_date = {{dda|February 1, 1997|September 29, 1917}}
| death_place = New York City, U.S.
| occupation = Actor, theatrical producer
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| children = Matthew Cowles
| relatives = Lily Cowles (granddaughter)
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Chandler Ruel Cowles{{Cite web|title=Chandler Ruel Cowles (1917-1997) - Find A Grave...|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152512662/chandler-ruel-cowles|website=www.findagrave.com|language=en|access-date=4 May 2020}} (September 29, 1917 – February 1, 1997) was an American actor, producer, and co-producer in at least eleven New York theatrical productions from 1946 through 1960.
Early life
Career
Cowles collaborated closely with Gian-Carlo Menotti and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. on many of these and also was a lifelong friend of ballet legend George Balanchine, with whom he worked on the 1947 Broadway production of The Telephone/The Medium. He also wrote the 1983 television program I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind.
Personal life and death
He was the father of actor Matthew Cowles.
Chandler Cowles died in 1997 in Manhattan, New York City, at the age of 79. He was buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Westmore, Vermont.
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Category:20th-century American male actors
Category:20th-century American screenwriters
Category:American television writers
Category:American theatre managers and producers
Category:Male actors from New Haven, Connecticut