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Lon Chaney Jr.

Lon Chaney Jr.

Birthday: 1906-02-10 | Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2007
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire

as    Himself (archive footage)

2007
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

as    Self (archive footage)

2000
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

as    Self (archive footage)

2000
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed

as    Self (archive footage)

1971
Dracula vs. Frankenstein

as    Groton

1971
The Female Bunch

as    Monti

1968
Buckskin

as    Sheriff Tangley

1967
Spider Baby

as    Bruno

1967
Gallery of Horror

as    Dr. Mendell

1967
Hillbillys in a Haunted House

as    Maximillian

1966
Johnny Reno

as    Sheriff Hodges

1965
House of the Black Death

as    Belial Desard

1965
Town Tamer

as    Charlie Leach

1965
Apache Uprising

as    Charlie Russell

1965
Black Spurs

as    Kile

1964
Witchcraft

as    Morgan Whitlock

1964
Face of the Screaming Werewolf

as    The Mummified Werewolf

1964
Law of the Lawless

as    Tiny

1963
The Haunted Palace

as    Simon Orne

1961
The Devil's Messenger

as    Satan

1958
Money, Women and Guns

as    Art Birdwell

1958
The Defiant Ones

as    Big Sam

1957
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans

as    Chingachgook

1957
The Cyclops

as    Martin 'Marty' Melville

1956
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer

as    Blackfish

1956
Indestructible Man

as    Charles "Butcher" Benton

1956
The Black Sleep

as    Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

1956
Pardners

as    Whitey

1955
I Died a Thousand Times

as    Big Mac

1955
Big House, U.S.A

as    Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith (as Lon Chaney)