Lon Chaney Jr.

Born

2/10/1906

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Lon Chaney Jr.

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 For171 Movies

High Noon
1952
★7.7
The Haunted Palace
1963
★6.7
The Wolf Man
1941
★7.0
The Defiant Ones
1958
★7.1
House of Dracula
1945
★5.5
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948
★7.1
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942
★5.8
The Indian Fighter
1955
★6.3
Jesse James
1939
★6.5
Spider Baby
1967
★6.8
House of Frankenstein
1944
★6.1
North West Mounted Police
1940
★6.4
The Movie Orgy
1968
★6.8
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943
★6.2
Union Pacific
1939
★6.7
Johnny Reno
1966
★6.5
The Alligator People
1959
★5.6
Springfield Rifle
1952
★6.4
My Favorite Brunette
1947
★6.7
Sharad of Atlantis
1936
★4.4
Passion
1954
★5.4
Young Fury
1964
★5.6
Raiders of the Seven Seas
1953
★6.1
Casanova's Big Night
1954
★6.1
Man-Made Monster
1941
★6.1
I Died a Thousand Times
1955
★6.2
Welcome to Hard Times
1967
★5.3
Frontier Marshal
1939
★6.3
City Girl
1938
★6.5
Bird of Paradise
1932
★5.1
Town Tamer
1965
★6.8
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971
★4.5
Pardners
1956
★6.7
Captain Hurricane
1935
★6.0
Not as a Stranger
1955
★6.2
Son of Dracula
1943
★5.8
Cobra Woman
1944
★5.4
Money, Women and Guns
1958
★5.8
Ace Drummond
1936
★7.0
The Boy from Oklahoma
1954
★5.7
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999
★7.3
Law of the Lawless
1964
★6.5
Only the Valiant
1951
★6.5
Passport Husband
1938
★7.0
The Horror Show
1979
★3.4
Billy the Kid
1941
★5.3
The American Nightmare
2000
★6.8
The Black Sleep
1956
★6.2
The Trap
1922
★5.8
One Million B.C.
1940
★5.8
Submarine Patrol
1938
★6.7
The Mummy's Ghost
1944
★5.6
The Mummy's Curse
1944
★5.5
The Mummy's Tomb
1942
★5.5
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
1994
★8.5
Stage to Thunder Rock
1964
★6.4
Apache Uprising
1965
★6.4
Mr. Moto's Gamble
1938
★6.4
Badlands of Dakota
1941
★6.0
Follow the Boys
1944
★5.7
Flame of Araby
1951
★6.2
Alexander's Ragtime Band
1938
★6.8
Dracula in the Movies
1992
★10.0
Captain China
1950
★5.5
Here Come the Co-Eds
1945
★5.9
Crazy House
1943
★6.0
Thief of Damascus
1952
★6.7
Black Spurs
1965
★6.3
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014
★7.5
The Frozen Ghost
1945
★6.3
Once a Thief
1950
★5.3
The Phantom
1961
★9.0
The Bushwhackers
1951
★5.9
Manfish
1956
★4.0
A Lion Is in the Streets
1953
★5.4
Of Mice and Men
1939
★7.3
Big House, U.S.A
1955
★6.6
The Three Musketeers
1933
★5.7
Jivaro
1954
★5.2
Pillow of Death
1945
★6.6
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000
★6.8
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
2007
★9.0
The Cyclops
1957
★4.5
Albuquerque
1948
★6.8
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
2000
★7.0
Bride of the Gorilla
1951
★4.8
Slave Ship
1937
★5.1
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938
★6.8
The Female Bunch
1971
★4.8
Indestructible Man
1956
★4.4
The Black Pirates
1954
★4.9
Charlie Chan on Broadway
1937
★7.1
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
1967
★4.5
Universal Horror
1998
★7.1
This Is My Affair
1937
★7.3
Weird Woman
1944
★6.0
Wild and Woolly
1937
★10.0
Calling Dr. Death
1943
★6.4
Desert Command
1946
★4.2
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
1956
★4.5
Ghost Catchers
1944
★6.1
Witchcraft
1964
★6.6
Lucky Devils
1933
★6.4
Overland Mail
1942
★10.0
Love and Hisses
1937
★10.0
Buckskin
1968
★5.5
The Black Castle
1952
★6.4
Riders of Death Valley
1941
★6.8
The Big Chase
1954
★4.8
There's a Girl in My Heart
1949
★7.0
Sixteen Fathoms Deep
1934
★4.0
16 Fathoms Deep
1948
★5.6
City in Darkness
1939
★6.5
The Life of Vergie Winters
1934
★5.7
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937
★7.0
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
★9.5
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
2007
★6.3
Battles of Chief Pontiac
1952
★5.7
Inside Straight
1951
★4.9
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000
★3.5
The Old Corral
1936
★7.5
Dead Man's Eyes
1944
★6.6
Scarlet River
1933
★5.6
Life Begins in College
1937
★8.0
The Lady Escapes
1937
★7.0
Strange Confession
1945
★6.8
Hillbillys in a Haunted House
1967
★2.8
Midnight Taxi
1937
★6.2
Angel's Holiday
1937
★6.0
North to the Klondike
1942
★7.1
Cheyenne Rides Again
1937
★6.0
Son of the Border
1933
★7.3
Rose Bowl
1936
★7.0
Walking Down Broadway
1938
★6.8
The Wolfman
1966
★7.7
Josette
1938
★7.2
Behave Yourself!
1951
★6.2
The Silver Star
1955
★5.5
Born Reckless
1937
★5.4
Straight, Place and Show
1938
★7.0
The Daltons Ride Again
1945
★5.0
The Counterfeiters
1948
★6.3
San Antonio Rose
1941
★7.0
One Mile from Heaven
1937
★6.6
The Devil's Messenger
1962
★4.7
Kitchen Mechanics
1949
★7.5
Rebellion in Cuba
1961
★9.0
Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.
2010
★7.0
Secret Agent X-9
1937
★7.3
Speed to Burn
1938
★7.5
The Galloping Ghost
1931
★4.7
Girl o' My Dreams
1934
★4.8
House of the Black Death
1965
★4.1
Eyes of the Underworld
1942
★5.6
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
1965
★4.2
House of Terror
1960
★6.1
Frontier Badmen
1943
★7.0
The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk
1964
★9.0
Along the Mohawk Trail
1957
★10.0
Accent on Youth
1935
★6.7
The Shadow of Silk Lennox
1935
★5.6
Frankenstein
1952
★10.0
Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters
2015
★10.0
The Mummy's Ghost
1968
★9.0
The Singing Cowboy
1936
★4.5
Killer at Large
1936
★8.0
Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces
1995
★9.0
Fireball Jungle
1968
★6.7
A Scream in the Night
1935
★5.0
The Last Frontier
1932
★7.0
Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991
★9.0