Lon Chaney Jr.
Born: 1906-02-10 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Died: 1973-07-12
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2025
- Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies as Self - (archive footage)
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
- Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb as Hassan (archive footage)
- Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman as Self (archive footage)
- Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire as Himself (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)
- Monster Movie Trivia Quiz
2001
- Heroes of Horror as (archive footage)
2000
- The American Nightmare as Self
- Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed as Self (archive footage)
- The Many Faces of Dracula as Count Dracula (archive footage)
- Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces as Self (archive footage)
1999
- Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' as Self (archive footage)
1998
- Universal Horror as (archive footage)
- The Wolfman's Cure as Lawrence Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man
1995
- Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces as (archive footage)
1994
- Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld as Self (archive footage)
1991
- Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Lawrence Talbot / The Monster (archive footage)
- Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Lawrence Talbot / The Wolf Man (archive footage)
- 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
- The Female Bunch as Monti
1968
- Buckskin as Sheriff Tangley
- The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
- Fireball Jungle as Sammy
1967
- Gallery of Horror as Dr. Mendell
- Welcome to Hard Times as Avery
- Hillbillys in a Haunted House as Maximillian
- Pistols 'n' Petticoats as Chief Eagle Shadow
- Spider Baby as Bruno
1966
- The Monkees as Lenny
- Johnny Reno as Sheriff Hodges
- Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1965
- Town Tamer as Charlie Leach
- Black Spurs as Kile
- House of the Black Death as Belial Desard
- Apache Uprising as Charlie Russell
1964
- Young Fury as Bartender
- Face of the Screaming Werewolf as The Mummified Werewolf
- Law of the Lawless as Tiny
- Stage to Thunder Rock as Henry Parker(as Lon Chaney)
- The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk as Chingachcook
- Witchcraft as Morgan Whitlock
1963
- The Haunted Palace as Simon Orne
1961
- The Devil's Messenger as Satan
- The Phantom as Jed
- Rebellion in Cuba as Gordo
1960
- Route 66 as Poppa Duplessis
- Surfside 6
- Stagecoach West as Ben Wait
- House of Terror as The Mummified Werewolf
1959
- Rawhide as Jesse Childress
- Adventures in Paradise as Trader One Arm
- Johnny Ringo as Ben Rafferty
- The Deputy as Tom Arnold
- Lock-Up
- The Alligator People as Manon
- 13 Demon Street as Host
1958
- The Rifleman as Charlie Gordo
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Sheriff Lon Paulson
- Lawman as Jess Bridges
- Bat Masterson as Rance Fletcher
- The Texan as Wylie Ames
- The Defiant Ones as Big Sam
- Money, Women and Guns as Art Birdwell
1957
- Wagon Train as Louis Roque
- Have Gun, Will Travel as William Ceilbleu
- Tombstone Territory as Ex-Marshal Daggett
- The Cyclops as Martin 'Marty' Melville
- Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans as Chingachgook
- Along the Mohawk Trail as Chingachgook
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Michael Peters
- Telephone Time as Jules Samenian
- Pardners as Whitey
- Manfish as Swede
- Indestructible Man as Charles "Butcher" Benton
- The Black Sleep as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
- Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer as Blackfish
1955
- The Indian Fighter as Chivington
- Big House, U.S.A as Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith
- I Died a Thousand Times as Big Mac
- Not as a Stranger as Job Marsh
- The Silver Star as John W. Harmon (as Lon Chaney)
1954
- Climax! as Frank Wiggins
- The Whistler
- Jivaro as Pedro Martines
- Studio 57 as Jubal Pickett
- Passion as Castro (as Lon Chaney)
- The Boy from Oklahoma as Crazy Charlie (as Lon Chaney)
- The Big Chase as Henchman Kip (archive footage) (as Lon Chaney)
- The Black Pirates as Padre Felipe
- Casanova's Big Night as Emo, the Murderer
1953
- Raiders of the Seven Seas as Peg Leg (as Lon Chaney)
- A Lion Is in the Streets as Spurge McManamee
- General Electric Theater as Bucknell
1952
- High Noon as Martin Howe
- Cavalcade of America as Old Jeff Harris
- Springfield Rifle as Pete Elm
- The Black Castle as Gargon
- Frankenstein as The Monster
- Battles of Chief Pontiac as Chief Pontiac
- Thief of Damascus as Sinbad (as Lon Chaney)
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Sgt. Williams
- Inside Straight as Shocker / Schockovitz Ninkovitch (as Lon Chaney)
- Behave Yourself! as Pinky
- Tales of Tomorrow
- The Bushwhackers as Artemus Taylor
- Only the Valiant as Trooper Kebussyan
- Flame of Araby as Borka Barbarossa
- Bride of the Gorilla as Commissioner Taro
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Alaskan Trapper
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self - Frankenstein Monster
- Captain China as Red Lynch
- Once a Thief as Gus (as Lon Chaney)
1949
- There's a Girl in My Heart as Johnny Colton
- Kitchen Mechanics as Johnson (archive footage)
- Fun on the Run as Johnson
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- The Counterfeiters as Louie Struber
- Albuquerque as Steve Murkill
- 16 Fathoms Deep as Mr. Demitri (as Lon Chaney)
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein as The Wolfman
1947
- My Favorite Brunette as Willie
1946
- Desert Command as Lt. Armand Corday
1945
- Strange Confession as Jeff Carter
- House of Dracula as Lawrence Stewart Talbot
- The Daltons Ride Again as Grat Dalton
- Pillow of Death as Wayne Fletcher
- The Frozen Ghost as Alex Gregor, aka Gregor the Great
- Here Come the Co-Eds as Johnson
1944
- Cobra Woman as Hava
- Weird Woman as Prof. Norman Reed
- Ghost Catchers as Bear
- House of Frankenstein as Lawrence 'Larry' Talbot (aka The Wolf Man)
- Dead Man's Eyes as David Stuart
- The Mummy's Ghost as Kharis
- Follow the Boys as Lon Chaney Jr. (uncredited)
- The Mummy's Curse as Kharis
1943
- Frontier Badmen as Chango
- Crazy House as Cameo Appearance
- Calling Dr. Death as Dr. Mark Steel (as Lon Chaney)
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man as Lawrence 'Larry' Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man
- What We Are Fighting For as Bill Wallace
- Son of Dracula as Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard
1942
- The Mummy's Tomb as The Mummy - Kharis
- Overland Mail as Jim Lane
- Eyes of the Underworld as Benny
- The Ghost of Frankenstein as The Frankenstein Monster
- North to the Klondike as Nate Carson
1941
- Billy the Kid as 'Spike' Hudson
- Man-Made Monster as Dan McCormick
- Badlands of Dakota as Jack McCall
- Too Many Blondes as Marvin Gimble
- The Wolf Man as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man
- Riders of Death Valley as Henchman Butch
- San Antonio Rose as Jigsaw Kennedy
1940
- One Million B.C. as Akhoba
- North West Mounted Police as Shorty
1939
- Jesse James as One Of James Gang
- Of Mice and Men as Lennie Small
- Union Pacific as Dollarhide
- City in Darkness as Pierre
- Frontier Marshal as Pringle
1938
- Passport Husband as Bull
- Submarine Patrol as Marine Sentry
- Speed to Burn as Racetrack Mug
- Walking Down Broadway as Delivery Man
- Alexander's Ragtime Band as Photographer
- Mr. Moto's Gamble as Joey
- Josette as Boatman
- Straight, Place and Show as Martin
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Policeman
- Road Demon as Bud Casey
1937
- Born Reckless as Garage Mechanic
- Charlie Chan on Broadway as Desk Reporter
- Love and Hisses as Attendant
- Life Begins in College as Gilks
- This Is My Affair as Federal Agent in Baltimore Bank
- The Lady Escapes as Reporter (uncredited)
- One Mile from Heaven as Policeman
- Secret Agent X-9 as Maroni
- Slave Ship as Laborer Killed at Launching
- Cheyenne Rides Again as Girard
- Midnight Taxi as Detective Erickson
- Angel's Holiday as Eddie
- Wild and Woolly as Dutch
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Scott, the Chauffeur
1936
- Sharad of Atlantis as Capt. Hakur
- Ace Drummond as Henchman Ivan
- The Old Corral as Garland - Simms partner
- The Singing Cowboy as Martin
- Killer at Large as Second Coffin Man
- Rose Bowl as Sierra Football Player
1935
- Captain Hurricane as Dave
- A Scream in the Night as Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain
- Accent on Youth as Chuck
- The Shadow of Silk Lennox as John Arthur 'Silk' Lennox
1934
- Sixteen Fathoms Deep as Joe Bethel
- The Life of Vergie Winters as Hugo McQueen
- Girl o' My Dreams as Don Cooper
1933
- Lucky Devils as Frankie
- The Three Musketeers as Lt. Armand Corday
- Son of the Border as Jack Breen
- Scarlet River as Jeff Todd (as Creighton Chaney)
1932
- The Last Frontier as Tom Kirby, aka The Black Ghost
- Bird of Paradise as Thornton
1931
- The Galloping Ghost as Henchman
1922
- The Trap as Boy in Crowd Behind Gaspard (uncredited)