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)
2001
- Heroes of Horror as (archive footage)
2000
- Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces as Self (archive footage)
- The Many Faces of Dracula as Count Dracula (archive footage)
- The American Nightmare as Self
- 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)
1995
- Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces as (archive footage)
1994
- Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld as Self (archive footage)
1992
- Dracula in the Movies as (archive footage)
1991
- Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Count Dracula / The Wolf Man (archive footage)
- Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Lawrence Talbot / The Monster (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
- Hillbillys in a Haunted House as Maximillian
- Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors as Dr. Mendell
- Pistols 'n' Petticoats as Chief Eagle Shadow
1966
- The Monkees as Lenny
- Pistols 'n' Petticoats
- Johnny Reno as Sheriff Hodges
1965
- Town Tamer as Charlie Leach
- Black Spurs as Kile
- Apache Uprising as Charlie Russell
- 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)
- The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk as Chingachcook
- Witchcraft as Morgan Whitlock
1963
- The Haunted Palace as Simon Orne
1962
1961
- 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
- The Deputy as Tom Arnold
- Lock-Up
- Johnny Ringo as Ben Rafferty
- 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
- 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
- Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer as Blackfish
- Indestructible Man as Charles "Butcher" Benton
- The Black Sleep as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
- Manfish as Swede
1955
- The Indian Fighter as Chivington
- Not as a Stranger as Job Marsh
- I Died a Thousand Times as Big Mac
- 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
- Passion as Castro (as Lon Chaney)
- Casanova's Big Night as Emo, the Murderer
- The Boy from Oklahoma as Crazy Charlie (as Lon Chaney)
- The Black Pirates as Padre Felipe
- Jivaro as Pedro Martines
- The Big Chase as Henchman Kip (archive footage) (as Lon Chaney)
1953
- General Electric Theater as Bucknell
- Raiders of the Seven Seas as Peg Leg (as Lon Chaney)
- A Lion Is in the Streets as Spurge McManamee
1952
- Cavalcade of America as Old Jeff Harris
- High Noon as Martin Howe
- Springfield Rifle as Pete Elm
- Battles of Chief Pontiac as Chief Pontiac
- The Black Castle as Gargon
- 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
- Bride of the Gorilla as Commissioner Taro
- Inside Straight as Shocker / Schockovitz Ninkovitch (as Lon Chaney)
- Flame of Araby as Borka Barbarossa
- 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
- Kitchen Mechanics as Johnson (archive footage)
- Fun on the Run as Johnson
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein as The Wolfman
- Albuquerque as Steve Murkill
- The Counterfeiters as Louie Struber
- Oysters and Muscles as Strangler Johnson
- 16 Fathoms Deep as Mr. Demitri (as Lon Chaney)
1947
- My Favorite Brunette as Willie
1946
- Desert Command as Lt. Armand Corday
1945
- Here Come the Co-Eds as Johnson
- House of Dracula as Lawrence Stewart Talbot
- The Frozen Ghost as Alex Gregor, aka Gregor the Great
- The Daltons Ride Again as Grat Dalton
- Strange Confession as Jeff Carter
- Pillow of Death as Wayne Fletcher
1944
- House of Frankenstein as Lawrence 'Larry' Talbot (aka The Wolf Man)
- The Mummy's Curse as Kharis
- The Mummy's Ghost as Kharis
- Dead Man's Eyes as David Stuart
- Cobra Woman as Hava
- Follow the Boys as Lon Chaney Jr. (uncredited)
- Ghost Catchers as Bear
- Weird Woman as Prof. Norman Reed
1943
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man as Lawrence 'Larry' Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man
- Son of Dracula as Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard
- What We Are Fighting For as Bill Wallace
- Calling Dr. Death as Dr. Mark Steel
- Frontier Badmen as Chango
- Crazy House as Cameo Appearance
1942
- The Ghost of Frankenstein as The Frankenstein Monster
- The Mummy's Tomb as The Mummy - Kharis
- North to the Klondike as Nate Carson
- Eyes of the Underworld as Benny
- Overland Mail as Jim Lane
1941
- The Wolf Man as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man
- Man-Made Monster as Dan McCormick
- Riders of Death Valley as Henchman Butch
- Badlands of Dakota as Jack McCall
- Billy the Kid as 'Spike' Hudson
- Too Many Blondes as Marvin Gimble
- San Antonio Rose as Jigsaw Kennedy
1940
- North West Mounted Police as Shorty
- One Million B.C. as Akhoba
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
- Mr. Moto's Gamble as Joey
- Passport Husband as Bull
- Alexander's Ragtime Band as Photographer
- City Girl as Gangster (uncredited)
- Straight, Place and Show as Martin
- Sally, Irene and Mary as Policeman
- Submarine Patrol as Marine Sentry
- Walking Down Broadway as Delivery Man
- Josette as Boatman
- Speed to Burn as Racetrack Mug
- Road Demon as Bud Casey
1937
- This Is My Affair as Federal Agent in Baltimore Bank
- One Mile from Heaven as Policeman
- Charlie Chan on Broadway as Desk Reporter
- Wife, Doctor and Nurse as Scott, the Chauffeur
- Life Begins in College as Gilks
- Love and Hisses as Attendant
- Secret Agent X-9 as Maroni
- Wild and Woolly as Dutch
- Slave Ship as Laborer Killed at Launching
- Midnight Taxi as Detective Erickson
- The Lady Escapes as Reporter (uncredited)
- Born Reckless as Garage Mechanic
- Cheyenne Rides Again as Girard
- Angel's Holiday as Eddie
1936
- Sharad of Atlantis as Capt. Hakur
- Ace Drummond as Henchman Ivan
- Rose Bowl as Sierra Football Player
- The Old Corral as Garland - Simms partner
- The Singing Cowboy as Martin
- Killer at Large as Second Coffin Man
1935
- Captain Hurricane as Dave
- A Scream in the Night as Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain
- The Shadow of Silk Lennox as John Arthur 'Silk' Lennox
- Accent on Youth as Chuck
- 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
- Son of the Border as Jack Breen
- The Three Musketeers as Lt. Armand Corday
- Lucky Devils as Frankie
- Scarlet River as Jeff Todd (as Creighton Chaney)
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)