
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