Lon Chaney Jr.
Date of birth: 1906-02-10
Place of birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Creighton Tull Chaney, Creighton Chaney, Lon Chaney, Лон Чейни-мл., Лон Чейни младший, Лон Чейни мл., لان چینی جونیور
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.
Movie Credits
High Noon
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
1948-06-01
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster'
The Ghost of Frankenstein
1942-03-13
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule t
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943-03-12
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House of Frankenstein
1944-12-15
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein
1971-09-20
Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
The Movie Orgy
1968-01-01
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One Million B.C.
1940-04-05
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The Haunted Palace
1963-08-28
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The Black Castle
1952-10-31
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Bride of the Gorilla
1951-10-01
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The Defiant Ones
1958-08-14
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House of Dracula
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Pardners
1956-08-01
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Son of Dracula
1943-10-20
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City in Darkness
1939-11-15
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Follow the Boys
1944-05-05
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The Horror Show
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The Wolf Man
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Heroes of Horror
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The Black Sleep
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I Died a Thousand Times
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Spider Baby
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The Female Bunch
1971-09-01
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1944-12-22
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Strange Confession
1945-10-05
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The Mummy's Ghost
1944-06-30
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Crazy House
1943-10-08
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The Cyclops
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1948-02-20
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The Alligator People
1959-07-16
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1938-05-24
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Big House, U.S.A
1955-03-03
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Calling Dr. Death
1943-12-17
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brut
Pillow of Death
1945-12-14
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne's wife is found smothered to de
Dead Man's Eyes
1944-11-10
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father
The Frozen Ghost
1945-06-01
When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die bec
Weird Woman
1944-03-01
After bringing his beautiful new wife Paula home to America from a remote island on which she was ra
Cobra Woman
1944-05-12
A man tracks his kidnapped bride to a jungle island, where her twin is the high priestess.
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
1956-10-05
Daniel Boone leads settlers into Kentucky, but must battle Shawnee Indians who have been persuaded b
Indestructible Man
1956-03-24
A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidental
My Favorite Brunette
1947-03-19
Ronnie Jackson is a lowly baby photographer who secretly fantasizes about being a private detective.
The Trap
1922-05-08
A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and
Of Mice and Men
1939-12-24
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranc
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004-07-28
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Once a Thief
1950-07-07
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North West Mounted Police
1940-10-22
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) trave
Witchcraft
1964-03-01
When her grave is disturbed by modern-day land developers, a 300-year-old witch is accidentally resu
The American Nightmare
2000-09-11
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Bird of Paradise
1932-08-12
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Only the Valiant
1951-04-13
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Man-Made Monster
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16 Fathoms Deep
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1955-07-01
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1954-04-07
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The Indian Fighter
1955-12-21
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The Old Corral
1936-12-21
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1954-06-18
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San Antonio Rose
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Johnny Reno
1966-03-09
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Eyes of the Underworld
1942-10-02
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1967-05-01
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2000-08-29
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1967-09-05
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Passion
1954-10-06
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House of the Black Death
1965-01-01
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Son of the Border
1933-05-05
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The Three Musketeers
1933-04-07
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after
Money, Women and Guns
1958-10-01
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Springfield Rifle
1952-10-22
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Billy the Kid
1941-05-30
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Jivaro
1954-02-12
At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, includi
Manfish
1956-02-01
Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.
Frontier Marshal
1939-07-28
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized versi
The Galloping Ghost
1931-09-01
A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Footba
The Last Frontier
1932-09-04
A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to dri
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000-01-01
Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01
Documentary with a treasure trove of rare footage and vintage trailers, offering a rich and unusual
Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-02-02
A compilation of scenes and trailers from horror movies having to do with wolfmen.
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1967-04-30
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its surv
The Singing Cowboy
1936-05-11
A rodeo singer funds a little girl's operation with a show, on television.
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
1965-02-28
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pas
Desert Command
1946-05-31
Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after
Sixteen Fathoms Deep
1934-01-01
A sponge diver hopes to make enough money to buy his own boat and marry his girlfriend. A rival dive
Girl o' My Dreams
1934-11-16
A conceited college track star, used to being "big man on campus", gets a jolt when he loses an elec
The Shadow of Silk Lennox
1935-12-11
A crooked nightclub owner, pretending to go straight, is forced to kill a henchman when the latter t
Young Fury
1964-11-01
A group of young thugs rides into the town of Dawson and take it over. When the cowardly sheriff is
Buckskin
1968-05-01
A Montana marshal fights a land baron out to parch homesteaders with a spite dam.
Raiders of the Seven Seas
1953-05-27
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Charlie Chan on Broadway
1937-09-22
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former
Secret Agent X-9
1937-04-12
A secret agent goes after the gang that stole the crown jewels of a European monarchy.
Apache Uprising
1965-12-29
Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forc
Ace Drummond
1936-10-18
This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbac
The Life of Vergie Winters
1934-06-14
A small town politician, kept from marrying the love of his life, eventually marries another woman a
Thief of Damascus
1952-04-01
A young man assembles a band of adventurers to take on an evil sultan.
Behave Yourself!
1951-09-22
A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.
The Boy from Oklahoma
1954-02-27
A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.
Black Spurs
1965-05-28
A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up
The Phantom
1961-01-01
The Phantom, along with canine companion Devil, investigate wicked doings at the plantation of Mrs.
Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney
1928-01-01
Lon and Hazel Chaney with Mabel and Bill Dunphy play with a dog [perhaps Sandy] and perform some vau
The Counterfeiters
1948-05-28
Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to nab counterfeiter and his gang.
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014-08-01
Join foremost experts discussing true Horror Classics - Frankenstein, Dracula, The Black Cat, Wolfma
Sally, Irene and Mary
1938-03-04
Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry
Battles of Chief Pontiac
1952-12-08
In pre-Revolutionary America, the efforts of a Colonial officer trying to broker a peace deal betwee
Town Tamer
1965-07-07
A gunfighter is hired to clean up a wild frontier town, but there are forces afoot who want to keep
Scarlet River
1933-03-10
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake'
The Black Pirates
1954-12-24
Pirates searching for treasure take over a small town in Central America where they believe the loot
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2010-02-02
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Stage to Thunder Rock
1964-11-11
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2007-05-16
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1938-07-15
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Kitchen Mechanics
1949-08-18
Lou and Bud start their new job as live-in caretakers on a college campus by trying - very trying -
Fun on the Run
1949-08-18
Bixby College needs to win the girls' basketball tourney prize-money in order to survive, but a pair
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
1937-09-17
Social butterfly marries Park Avenue doctor and learns that his nurse is in love with him.
Josette
1938-06-03
Two young men try to wrest their father from the clutches of a gold digger but by mistake think the
Jesse James
1939-01-14
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn t
Midnight Taxi
1937-04-04
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeit
Frankenstein
1952-01-18
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, working in a castle on a remote Swiss island, attempts to create a perfect
Lucky Devils
1933-02-03
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
Road Demon
1938-12-02
At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk y
The Silver Star
1955-04-07
A third generation deputy sheriff doubts whether or not he has the guts for the job that killed both
Abbott and Costello in the Movies
1990-01-01
See America's funniest comedy team in rare movie trailers, hilarious highlights, belly-busting bloop
Love and Hisses
1937-12-21
As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winch
Rose Bowl
1936-11-30
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; P
Captain China
1950-02-02
The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losin
Inside Straight
1951-03-01
A tycoon rises to the top in 19th-century San Francisco through greed and corruption.
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
2007-10-24
On Valentines Day, 1931, Universal Pictures released the film Dracula - the first true horror movie.
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
2007-03-10
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Union Pacific
1939-05-05
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad acro
The Lady Escapes
1937-07-22
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Frontier Badmen
1943-08-05
A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle prices are being kept artif
Submarine Patrol
1938-11-25
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a m
North to the Klondike
1942-01-23
Based upon the novel by Jack London, two friends in the Klondike aid settlers being terrorized by ou
Life Begins in College
1937-10-01
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it th
Riders of Death Valley
1941-07-01
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted weste
Too Many Blondes
1941-08-01
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A Scream in the Night
1935-07-29
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Sharad of Atlantis
1936-05-30
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This Is My Affair
1937-05-28
President McKinley asks Lt. Richard L. Perry to go underground to identify some obviously very well
Cheyenne Rides Again
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The Bushwhackers
1951-12-07
Confederate veteran Jeff Waring arrives in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, inten
One Mile from Heaven
1937-08-18
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There's a Girl in My Heart
1949-12-19
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Flame of Araby
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An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to o
House of Terror
1960-06-05
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Overland Mail
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Born Reckless
1937-06-25
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Accent on Youth
1935-08-23
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when he
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Along the Mohawk Trail
1957-01-01
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The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk
1964-01-01
A feature made out of two episodes from the 1958 TV series "Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans."
Walking Down Broadway
1938-03-11
Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway prod
Slave Ship
1937-06-16
Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced again
Straight, Place and Show
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The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match
Fireball Jungle
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Speed to Burn
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Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and
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Documentry on the career of Jack Pierce, a make up man from the Golden Age of Hollywood, most rememb
Ghost Catchers
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Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted
Wild and Woolly
1937-07-19
Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer and Jackie Se
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1936-10-27
A master of disguise poses as a wax figure to rob a safe of its jewels.
Mr. Moto's Gamble
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Starting with "The Wolf Man" (in 1941), Universal Studios made five movies featuring The Wolf Man, a
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Rebellion in Cuba
1961-06-30
A small group of Americans take part in an attempted overthrow of Fidel Castro's Communist regime in
What We Are Fighting For
1943-01-01
An air raid warden demonstrates safety measures, while a refugee from Occupied Europe reveals why sh
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Dive into 60 minutes of blood, bravado and brilliant scares as we trace the evolution of horror cine
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The Mummy's Ghost
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