Lon Chaney Jr.
Department: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lon Chaney, Jr. (February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973), born Creighton Tull Chaney, was an American character actor. He was best known for his roles in monster movies and as the son of famous silent film actor, Lon Chaney. He is notable for playing Larry Talbot in The Wolf Man movies. Originally credited in films as Creighton Chaney, he was first credited as "Lon Chaney, Jr." in 1935. Chaney had English, French and Irish ancestry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lon Chaney, Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
High Noon
1952
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943
House of Frankenstein
1944
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971
The Movie Orgy
1968
One Million B.C.
1940
The Haunted Palace
1963
The Black Castle
1952
Bride of the Gorilla
1951
The Defiant Ones
1958
House of Dracula
1945
Pardners
1956
Son of Dracula
1943
City in Darkness
1939
Follow the Boys
1944
Monster Movie Trivia Quiz
2004
Here Come the Co-Eds
1945
The Horror Show
1979
The Wolf Man
1941
Heroes of Horror
2001
The Black Sleep
1956
I Died a Thousand Times
1955
Spider Baby
1967
The Female Bunch
1971
The Mummy's Tomb
1942
The Mummy's Curse
1944
Strange Confession
1945
The Mummy's Ghost
1944
Crazy House
1943
The Cyclops
1957
Albuquerque
1948
The Alligator People
1959
Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938
Big House, U.S.A
1955
Calling Dr. Death
1943
Weird Woman
1944
Pillow of Death
1945
Dead Man's Eyes
1944
The Frozen Ghost
1945
Cobra Woman
1944
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
1956
Indestructible Man
1956
My Favorite Brunette
1947
The Trap
1922
Of Mice and Men
1939
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
Once a Thief
1950
North West Mounted Police
1940
Witchcraft
1964
The American Nightmare
2000
Bird of Paradise
1932
Only the Valiant
1951
Man-Made Monster
1941
16 Fathoms Deep
1948
Angel's Holiday
1937
Not as a Stranger
1955
Casanova's Big Night
1954
The Indian Fighter
1955
The Old Corral
1936
Badlands of Dakota
1941
The Big Chase
1954
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
1967
San Antonio Rose
1941
Johnny Reno
1966
Eyes of the Underworld
1942
Hillbillys in a Haunted House
1967
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
2000
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1967
Passion
1954
House of the Black Death
1965
Son of the Border
1933
The Three Musketeers
1933
Money, Women and Guns
1958
A Lion Is in the Streets
1953
The Devil's Messenger
1962
Springfield Rifle
1952
Billy the Kid
1941
Jivaro
1954
Manfish
1956
Frontier Marshal
1939
The Galloping Ghost
1931
The Last Frontier
1932
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
The Singing Cowboy
1936
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
1965
Desert Command
1946
Sixteen Fathoms Deep
1934
Girl o' My Dreams
1934
The Shadow of Silk Lennox
1935
Young Fury
1964
Buckskin
1968
Raiders of the Seven Seas
1953
Charlie Chan on Broadway
1937
Secret Agent X-9
1937
Apache Uprising
1965
Ace Drummond
1936
The Life of Vergie Winters
1934
Thief of Damascus
1952
Behave Yourself!
1951
The Boy from Oklahoma
1954
Black Spurs
1965
The Phantom
1961
Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney
1928
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014
The Counterfeiters
1948
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938
Battles of Chief Pontiac
1952
Town Tamer
1965
Scarlet River
1933
The Black Pirates
1954
Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.
2010
Stage to Thunder Rock
1964
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
2007
Passport Husband
1938
Kitchen Mechanics
1949
Fun on the Run
1949
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
Josette
1938
Jesse James
1939
Midnight Taxi
1937
Frankenstein
1952
Lucky Devils
1933
Road Demon
1938
The Silver Star
1955
Abbott and Costello in the Movies
1990
Love and Hisses
1937
Rose Bowl
1936
Captain China
1950
Inside Straight
1951
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
2007
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
2007
Union Pacific
1939
The Lady Escapes
1937
Frontier Badmen
1943
Submarine Patrol
1938
North to the Klondike
1942
Life Begins in College
1937
Riders of Death Valley
1941
Too Many Blondes
1941
A Scream in the Night
1935
Sharad of Atlantis
1936
This Is My Affair
1937
Cheyenne Rides Again
1937
The Bushwhackers
1951
One Mile from Heaven
1937
There's a Girl in My Heart
1949
Flame of Araby
1951
House of Terror
1960
The Wolfman's Cure
1998
Captain Hurricane
1935
Overland Mail
1942
Born Reckless
1937
Accent on Youth
1935
The Daltons Ride Again
1945
Terror in the Tropics
2006
Law of the Lawless
1964
Along the Mohawk Trail
1957
The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk
1964
Walking Down Broadway
1938
Slave Ship
1937
Straight, Place and Show
1938
Fireball Jungle
1968
Speed to Burn
1938
Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
2000
Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces
1995
Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters
2015
Ghost Catchers
1944
Wild and Woolly
1937
Killer at Large
1936
Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999
Universal Horror
1998
Rebellion in Cuba
1961
What We Are Fighting For
1943
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
1994
Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing
1962
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
The Marriage Bargain
1935
The Mummy's Ghost
1968
The Wolfman
1966
Dracula in the Movies
1992
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
Route 66
1960
Surfside 6
1960
General Electric Theater
1953
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966
The Monkees
1966
Rawhide
1959
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951
Climax!
1954
Adventures in Paradise
1959
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
1957
Lock-Up
1959
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1958
Bat Masterson
1958
The Texan
1958
The Whistler
1954
Cavalcade of America
1952
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
Johnny Ringo
1959
13 Demon Street
1959
Telephone Time
1956
The Red Skelton Show
1951
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Tombstone Territory
1957
Wagon Train
1957
Stagecoach West
1960
Wagon Train
1957
The Deputy
1959
The Red Skelton Show
1951
The Red Skelton Show
1951
The Red Skelton Show
1951
The Red Skelton Show
1951
The Rifleman
1958
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Lawman
1958
Rawhide
1959
Cavalcade of America
1952
Route 66
1960
Route 66
1960
Climax!
1954
Studio 57
1954