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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

226

Gender

Male

Birthday

1906-02-10

Deathday

1973-07-12 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Also Known As

Creighton Tull Chaney
Creighton Chaney
Lon Chaney
Лон Чейни-мл.
Лон Чейни младший
Лон Чейни мл.
لان چینی جونیور

Lon Chaney Jr.

Biography

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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.

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The Wolfman's Cure

2015

Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters as Self (archive footage)

2014

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film as The Wolf Man / Larry Talbot (archive footage)

2010

Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr. as Self (archive footage)

2007		Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire as Himself (archive footage)
2007		Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman as Self (archive footage)
2007		Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb as Hassan (archive footage)

2006

Terror in the Tropics as Lyle Talbot (archive footage)

2004		Los Angeles Plays Itself as Charles Benton in The Indestructible Man (archive footage)
2004		The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made as Bruno (archive footage)
2004		Monster Movie Trivia Quiz

2001

Heroes of Horror as (archive footage)

2000		Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces as Self (archive footage)
2000		The American Nightmare as Self
2000		Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed as Self (archive footage)
2000		The Many Faces of Dracula as Count Dracula (archive footage)

1999

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' as Self (archive footage)

1998

Universal Horror as (archive footage)

1995		Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces as (archive footage)
1995		Svengoolie as Lawrence Talbot

1991		Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Lawrence Talbot / The Wolf Man (archive footage)
1991		Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Lawrence Talbot / The Monster (archive footage)
1991		Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Count Dracula / The Wolf Man (archive footage)

1990

Abbott and Costello in the Movies as Outtake

1979

The Horror Show as (archive footage)

1971		Dracula vs. Frankenstein as Groton
1971		The Female Bunch as Monti

1968		Fireball Jungle as Sammy
1968		Buckskin as Sheriff Tangley
1968		The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)

1967		Spider Baby as Bruno
1967		Pistols 'n' Petticoats as Chief Eagle Shadow
1967		Hillbillys in a Haunted House as Maximillian
1967		Welcome to Hard Times as Avery
1967		Gallery of Horror as Dr. Mendell

1966		Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966		The Monkees as Lenny
1966		Johnny Reno as Sheriff Hodges

1965		Apache Uprising as Charlie Russell
1965		Town Tamer as Charlie Leach
1965		Black Spurs as Kile
1965		House of the Black Death as Belial Desard

1964		Stage to Thunder Rock as Henry Parker(as Lon Chaney)
1964		Young Fury as Bartender
1964		Law of the Lawless as Tiny
1964		Witchcraft as Morgan Whitlock
1964		Face of the Screaming Werewolf as The Mummified Werewolf
1964		The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk as Chingachcook

1963

The Haunted Palace as Simon Orne

1962

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self

1961		Rebellion in Cuba as Gordo
1961		The Devil's Messenger as Satan
1961		The Phantom as Jed

1960		Route 66 as Poppa Duplessis
1960		Route 66 as Colby
1960		Route 66 as Lon Chaney
1960		Surfside 6
1960		Stagecoach West as Ben Wait
1960		House of Terror as The Mummified Werewolf

1959		Adventures in Paradise as Trader One Arm
1959		Johnny Ringo as Ben Rafferty
1959		Lock-Up
1959		The Deputy as Tom Arnold
1959		The Alligator People as Manon
1959		Rawhide as Jesse Childress
1959		Rawhide as Rock
1959		13 Demon Street as Host

1958		Bat Masterson as Rance Fletcher
1958		Lawman as Jess Bridges
1958		Money, Women and Guns as Art Birdwell
1958		The Rifleman as Charlie Gordo
1958		The Texan as Wylie Ames
1958		Wanted: Dead or Alive as Sheriff Lon Paulson
1958		The Defiant Ones as Big Sam

1957		Tombstone Territory as Ex-Marshal Daggett
1957		Wagon Train as Louis Roque
1957		Wagon Train as Carstairs
1957		Have Gun, Will Travel as William Ceilbleu
1957		Have Gun, Will Travel as O'Connor - Inmate
1957		The Cyclops as Martin 'Marty' Melville
1957		Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans as Chingachgook
1957		Along the Mohawk Trail as Chingachgook

1956		Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Michael Peters
1956		Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer as Blackfish
1956		Pardners as Whitey
1956		The Black Sleep as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
1956		Telephone Time as Jules Samenian
1956		Indestructible Man as Charles "Butcher" Benton
1956		Manfish as Swede

1955		The Indian Fighter as Chivington (as Lon Chaney)
1955		I Died a Thousand Times as Big Mac
1955		Not as a Stranger as Job Marsh
1955		The Silver Star as John W. Harmon (as Lon Chaney)
1955		Big House, U.S.A as Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith

1954		The Black Pirates as Padre Felipe
1954		Climax! as Frank Wiggins
1954		Climax! as Old Man Hawley
1954		Passion as Castro (as Lon Chaney)
1954		Studio 57 as Jubal Pickett
1954		The Whistler
1954		The Big Chase as Henchman Kip (archive footage) (as Lon Chaney)
1954		Casanova's Big Night as Emo, the Murderer
1954		The Boy from Oklahoma as Crazy Charlie (as Lon Chaney)
1954		Jivaro as Pedro Martines

1953		A Lion Is in the Streets as Spurge McManamee
1953		Raiders of the Seven Seas as Peg Leg (as Lon Chaney)
1953		General Electric Theater as Bucknell

1952		Battles of Chief Pontiac as Chief Pontiac
1952		The Black Castle as Gargon
1952		Springfield Rifle as Pete Elm (as Lon Chaney)
1952		Cavalcade of America as Old Jeff Harris
1952		Cavalcade of America as Zeke Wells
1952		High Noon as Martin Howe
1952		Thief of Damascus as Sinbad (as Lon Chaney)
1952		Frankenstein as The Monster

1951		Flame of Araby as Borka Barbarossa
1951		The Bushwhackers as Artemus Taylor
1951		Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Alaskan Trapper
1951		Bride of the Gorilla as Commissioner Taro
1951		The Red Skelton Show as Sgt. Williams
1951		The Red Skelton Show as Ug - Prehistoric Cave Man
1951		The Red Skelton Show as George
1951		The Red Skelton Show as Mad Scientist
1951		The Red Skelton Show as Lon Chaney
1951		Behave Yourself! as Pinky
1951		Tales of Tomorrow
1951		Only the Valiant as Trooper Kebussyan
1951		Inside Straight as Shocker / Schockovitz Ninkovitch (as Lon Chaney)

1950		The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self - Frankenstein Monster
1950		Once a Thief as Gus (as Lon Chaney)
1950		Captain China as Red Lynch

1949		There's a Girl in My Heart as Johnny Colton
1949		Kitchen Mechanics as Johnson
1949		Fun on the Run as Johnson

1948		16 Fathoms Deep as Mr. Demitri (as Lon Chaney)
1948		The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1948		Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein as The Wolfman
1948		The Counterfeiters as Louie Struber
1948		Albuquerque as Steve Murkill

1947

My Favorite Brunette as Willie

1946

Desert Command as Lt. Armand Corday

1945		Pillow of Death as Wayne Fletcher
1945		House of Dracula as Lawrence Stewart Talbot
1945		The Daltons Ride Again as Grat Dalton (as Lon Chaney)
1945		Strange Confession as Jeff Carter
1945		The Frozen Ghost as Alex Gregor, aka Gregor the Great
1945		Here Come the Co-Eds as Johnson

1944		The Mummy's Curse as Kharis
1944		House of Frankenstein as Lawrence 'Larry' Talbot (aka The Wolf Man)
1944		Dead Man's Eyes as David Stuart
1944		The Mummy's Ghost as Kharis
1944		Ghost Catchers as Bear
1944		Cobra Woman as Hava
1944		Follow the Boys as Lon Chaney Jr. (uncredited)
1944		Weird Woman as Prof. Norman Reed

1943		Calling Dr. Death as Dr. Mark Steel (as Lon Chaney)
1943		Son of Dracula as Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard
1943		Crazy House as Cameo Appearance
1943		Frontier Badmen as Chango
1943		Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man as Lawrence 'Larry' Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man
1943		What We Are Fighting For as Bill Wallace

1942		The Mummy's Tomb as The Mummy - Kharis
1942		Eyes of the Underworld as Benny
1942		Overland Mail as Jim Lane
1942		The Ghost of Frankenstein as The Frankenstein Monster
1942		North to the Klondike as Nate Carson

1941		The Wolf Man as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man
1941		Badlands of Dakota as Jack McCall
1941		Too Many Blondes as Marvin Gimble
1941		Riders of Death Valley as Henchman Butch
1941		San Antonio Rose as Jigsaw Kennedy
1941		Billy the Kid as 'Spike' Hudson
1941		Man-Made Monster as Dan McCormick

1940		North West Mounted Police as Shorty
1940		One Million B.C. as Akhoba

1939		Of Mice and Men as Lennie
1939		City in Darkness as Pierre
1939		Frontier Marshal as Pringle
1939		Union Pacific as Dollarhide
1939		Jesse James as One Of James Gang

1938		Road Demon as Bud Casey
1938		Submarine Patrol as Marine Sentry
1938		Straight, Place and Show as Martin
1938		Passport Husband as Bull
1938		Speed to Burn as Racetrack Mug
1938		Josette as Boatman
1938		Alexander's Ragtime Band as Photographer
1938		Mr. Moto's Gamble as Joey
1938		Walking Down Broadway as Delivery Man
1938		Sally, Irene and Mary as Policeman

1937		Love and Hisses as Attendant
1937		Life Begins in College as Gilks
1937		Charlie Chan on Broadway as Desk Reporter
1937		Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Scott, the Chauffeur
1937		One Mile from Heaven as Policeman
1937		The Lady Escapes as Reporter (uncredited)
1937		Wild and Woolly as Dutch
1937		Born Reckless as Garage Mechanic
1937		Slave Ship as Laborer Killed at Launching
1937		Angel's Holiday as Eddie
1937		This Is My Affair as Federal Agent in Baltimore Bank
1937		Secret Agent X-9 as Maroni
1937		Midnight Taxi as Detective Erickson
1937		Cheyenne Rides Again as Girard

1936		The Old Corral as Garland - Simms partner
1936		Rose Bowl as Sierra Football Player
1936		Killer at Large as Second Coffin Man
1936		Ace Drummond as Henchman Ivan
1936		Sharad of Atlantis as Capt. Hakur
1936		The Singing Cowboy as Martin

1935		The Shadow of Silk Lennox as John Arthur 'Silk' Lennox
1935		Accent on Youth as Chuck
1935		A Scream in the Night as Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain
1935		Captain Hurricane as Dave

1934		Girl o' My Dreams as Don Cooper
1934		The Life of Vergie Winters as Hugo McQueen
1934		Sixteen Fathoms Deep as Joe Bethel

1933		Son of the Border as Jack Breen
1933		The Three Musketeers as Lt. Armand Corday
1933		Scarlet River as Jeff Todd (as Creighton Chaney)
1933		Lucky Devils as Frankie

1932		The Last Frontier as Tom Kirby, aka The Black Ghost
1932		Bird of Paradise as Thornton

1931

The Galloping Ghost as Henchman

1928

Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney as Self

1922

The Trap as Boy in Crowd Behind Gaspard (uncredited)