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
- Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman as Self (archive footage)
- Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb as Hassan (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
- The Many Faces of Dracula as Count Dracula (archive footage)
- Lon Chaney: A thousand faces as Self (archive footage)
- Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed 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)
- Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Count Dracula / The Wolf Man (archive footage)
- Halloween Monster Bash as Butcher Benton (archive footage)
- Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Lawrence Talbot / 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
- The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
- Buckskin as Sheriff Tangley
- The Mummy's Ghost as Kharis, the mummy
- Fireball Jungle as Sammy
1967
- Welcome to Hard Times as Avery
- Spider Baby as Bruno
- Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors as Dr. Mendell
- Hillbillys in a Haunted House as Maximillian
- Pistols 'n' Petticoats as Chief Eagle Shadow
1966
- The Monkees as Lenny
- Pistols 'n' Petticoats
- Johnny Reno as Sheriff Hodges
- The Wolfman as Larry Talbot
1965
- Apache Uprising as Charlie Russell
- Town Tamer as Charlie Leach
- Black Spurs as Kile
- House of the Black Death as Belial Desard
- Face of the Screaming Werewolf as The Mummified Werewolf
1964
- Law of the Lawless as Tiny
- Young Fury as Bartender
- Stage to Thunder Rock as Henry Parker(as Lon Chaney)
- Witchcraft as Morgan Whitlock
- The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk as Chingachcook
1963
- The Haunted Palace as Simon Orne
1962
1961
- Rebellion in Cuba as Gordo
- The Phantom as Jed
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
- Lock-Up
- Johnny Ringo as Ben Rafferty
- The Deputy as Tom Arnold
- 13 Demon Street as Host
- The Alligator People as Manon
1958
- The Rifleman as Charlie Gordo
- Lawman as Jess Bridges
- Wanted: Dead or Alive as Sheriff Lon Paulson
- 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
- Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans as Chingachgook
- The Cyclops as Martin 'Marty' Melville
- Along the Mohawk Trail as Chingachgook
1956
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre as Michael Peters
- Telephone Time as Jules Samenian
- Pardners as Whitey
- The Black Sleep as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
- Indestructible Man as Charles "Butcher" Benton
- Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer as Blackfish
- Manfish as Swede
1955
- The Indian Fighter as Chivington
- I Died a Thousand Times as Big Mac
- Not as a Stranger as Job Marsh
- Big House, U.S.A as Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith
- The Silver Star as John W. Harmon (as Lon Chaney)
1954
- Climax! as Frank Wiggins
- Studio 57 as Jubal Pickett
- The Whistler
- Casanova's Big Night as Emo, the Murderer
- The Boy from Oklahoma as Crazy Charlie (as Lon Chaney)
- Jivaro as Pedro Martines
- Passion as Castro (as Lon Chaney)
- The Big Chase as Henchman Kip (archive footage) (as Lon Chaney)
- The Black Pirates as Padre Felipe
1953
- General Electric Theater as Bucknell
- A Lion Is in the Streets as Spurge McManamee
- Raiders of the Seven Seas as Peg Leg (as Lon Chaney)
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Old Jeff Harris
- High Noon as Martin Howe
- Springfield Rifle as Pete Elm
- The Black Castle as Gargon
- Battles of Chief Pontiac as Chief Pontiac
- Thief of Damascus as Sinbad (as Lon Chaney)
- Frankenstein as The Monster
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Sgt. Williams
- Tales of Tomorrow
- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars as Alaskan Trapper
- Only the Valiant as Trooper Kebussyan
- Flame of Araby as Borka Barbarossa
- Bride of the Gorilla as Commissioner Taro
- Inside Straight as Shocker / Schockovitz Ninkovitch (as Lon Chaney)
- Behave Yourself! as Pinky
- The Bushwhackers as Artemus Taylor
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
- Fun on the Run as Johnson
- Kitchen Mechanics as Johnson (archive footage)
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein as The Wolfman
- Albuquerque as Steve Murkill
- 16 Fathoms Deep as Mr. Demitri (as Lon Chaney)
- The Counterfeiters as Louie Struber
1947
- My Favorite Brunette as Willie
1946
- Desert Command as Lt. Armand Corday
1945
- House of Dracula as Lawrence Stewart Talbot
- Here Come the Co-Eds as Johnson
- The Frozen Ghost as Alex Gregor, aka Gregor the Great
- Strange Confession as Jeff Carter
- Pillow of Death as Wayne Fletcher
- The Daltons Ride Again as Grat Dalton
1944
- House of Frankenstein as Lawrence 'Larry' Talbot (aka The Wolf Man)
- Cobra Woman as Hava
- The Mummy's Curse as Kharis
- The Mummy's Ghost as Kharis
- Follow the Boys as Lon Chaney Jr. (uncredited)
- Weird Woman as Prof. Norman Reed
- Dead Man's Eyes as David Stuart
- Ghost Catchers as Bear
1943
- Son of Dracula as Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man as Lawrence 'Larry' Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man
- Crazy House as Cameo Appearance
- Calling Dr. Death as Dr. Mark Steel
- Frontier Badmen as Chango
- What We Are Fighting For as Bill Wallace
1942
- The Ghost of Frankenstein as The Frankenstein Monster
- The Mummy's Tomb as The Mummy - Kharis
- Overland Mail as Jim Lane
- Eyes of the Underworld as Benny
- North to the Klondike as Nate Carson
1941
- The Wolf Man as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man
- Billy the Kid as 'Spike' Hudson
- Badlands of Dakota as Jack McCall
- Riders of Death Valley as Henchman Butch
- Man-Made Monster as Dan McCormick
- San Antonio Rose as Jigsaw Kennedy
- Too Many Blondes as Marvin Gimble
1940
- North West Mounted Police as Shorty
- One Million B.C. as Akhoba
1939
- Jesse James as One Of James Gang
- Union Pacific as Dollarhide
- Frontier Marshal as Pringle
- Of Mice and Men as Lennie Small
- City in Darkness as Pierre
1938
- Mr. Moto's Gamble as Joey
- Submarine Patrol as Marine Sentry
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Policeman
- Alexander's Ragtime Band as Photographer
- Walking Down Broadway as Delivery Man
- Josette as Boatman
- Straight, Place and Show as Martin
- Passport Husband as Bull
- Road Demon as Bud Casey
- Speed to Burn as Racetrack Mug
- City Girl as Gangster (uncredited)
1937
- Charlie Chan on Broadway as Desk Reporter
- Love and Hisses as Attendant
- Wild and Woolly as Dutch
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Scott, the Chauffeur
- Slave Ship as Laborer Killed at Launching
- Born Reckless as Garage Mechanic
- This Is My Affair as Federal Agent in Baltimore Bank
- Midnight Taxi as Detective Erickson
- One Mile from Heaven as Policeman
- The Lady Escapes as Reporter (uncredited)
- Life Begins in College as Gilks
- Angel's Holiday as Eddie
- Secret Agent X-9 as Maroni
- Cheyenne Rides Again as Girard
1936
- The Old Corral as Garland - Simms partner
- Killer at Large as Second Coffin Man
- Rose Bowl as Sierra Football Player
- Sharad of Atlantis as Capt. Hakur
- Ace Drummond as Henchman Ivan
- The Singing Cowboy as Martin
1935
- Accent on Youth as Chuck
- The Shadow of Silk Lennox as John Arthur 'Silk' Lennox
- A Scream in the Night as Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain
- Captain Hurricane as Dave
- The Marriage Bargain as Bob Gordon
1934
- The Life of Vergie Winters as Hugo McQueen
- Girl o' My Dreams as Don Cooper
- Sixteen Fathoms Deep as Joe Bethel
1933
- The Three Musketeers as Lt. Armand Corday
- Lucky Devils as Frankie
- Scarlet River as Jeff Todd (as Creighton Chaney)
- Son of the Border as Jack Breen
1932
- Bird of Paradise as Thornton
- The Last Frontier as Tom Kirby, aka The Black Ghost
1931
- The Galloping Ghost as Henchman
1922
- The Trap as Boy in Crowd Behind Gaspard (uncredited)