Lon Chaney Jr.

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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.

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Born

Feb 10, 1906

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Died

Jul 12, 1973

Known For

Acting

Movies

189 acting

0 crew

Popularity

1.5

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Known For

High Noon

1952

as Martin Howe

House of Dracula

1945

as Lawrence Stewart Talbot

The Defiant Ones

1958

as Big Sam

The Wolf Man

1941

as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man

The Haunted Palace

1963

as Simon Orne

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

1948

as The Wolfman

House of Frankenstein

1944

as Lawrence 'Larry' Talbot (aka The Wolf Man)

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

1943

as Lawrence 'Larry' Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man

Spider Baby

1967

as Bruno

Son of Dracula

1943

as Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard

High Noon

1952 • as Martin Howe

★ 7.7

House of Dracula

1945 • as Lawrence Stewart Talbot

★ 5.5

The Defiant Ones

1958 • as Big Sam

★ 7.1

The Wolf Man

1941 • as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man

★ 7.0

The Movie Orgy

1968 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.8

The Haunted Palace

1963 • as Simon Orne

★ 6.7

The Indian Fighter

1955 • as Chivington

★ 6.3

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

1948 • as The Wolfman

★ 7.1

Springfield Rifle

1952 • as Pete Elm

★ 6.4

Only the Valiant

1951 • as Trooper Kebussyan

★ 6.5

The Horror Show

1979 • as (archive footage)

★ 3.4

House of Frankenstein

1944 • as Lawrence 'Larry' Talbot (aka The Wolf Man)

★ 6.1

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

1943 • as Lawrence 'Larry' Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man

★ 6.2

Union Pacific

1939 • as Dollarhide

★ 6.7

Casanova's Big Night

1954 • as Emo, the Murderer

★ 6.1

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies

2025 • as Self - (archive footage)

Spider Baby

1967 • as Bruno

★ 6.8

Son of Dracula

1943 • as Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard

★ 5.8

The Alligator People

1959 • as Manon

★ 5.6

The Mummy's Tomb

1942 • as The Mummy - Kharis

★ 5.5

Follow the Boys

1944 • as Lon Chaney Jr. (uncredited)

★ 5.7

North West Mounted Police

1940 • as Shorty

★ 6.4

Sharad of Atlantis

1936 • as Capt. Hakur

★ 4.4

The American Nightmare

2000 • as Self

★ 6.8

The Ghost of Frankenstein

1942 • as The Frankenstein Monster

★ 5.8

Jesse James

1939 • as One Of James Gang

★ 6.5

Not as a Stranger

1955 • as Job Marsh

★ 6.2

Ace Drummond

1936 • as Henchman Ivan

★ 7.0

The Mummy's Curse

1944 • as Kharis

★ 5.5

My Favorite Brunette

1947 • as Willie

★ 6.7

Dracula vs. Frankenstein

1971 • as Groton

★ 4.5

Passion

1954 • as Castro (as Lon Chaney)

★ 5.4

Law of the Lawless

1964 • as Tiny

★ 6.5

Of Mice and Men

1939 • as Lennie Small

★ 7.3

One Million B.C.

1940 • as Akhoba

★ 5.8

The Mummy's Ghost

1944 • as Kharis

★ 5.6

I Died a Thousand Times

1955 • as Big Mac

★ 6.2

Billy the Kid

1941 • as 'Spike' Hudson

★ 5.3

The Trap

1922 • as Boy in Crowd Behind Gaspard (uncredited)

★ 5.8

Frontier Marshal

1939 • as Pringle

★ 6.3

Apache Uprising

1965 • as Charlie Russell

★ 6.4

City Girl

1938 • as Gangster (uncredited)

★ 6.5

Welcome to Hard Times

1967 • as Avery

★ 5.3

Mr. Moto's Gamble

1938 • as Joey

★ 6.4

Man-Made Monster

1941 • as Dan McCormick

★ 6.1

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'

1999 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.3

The Black Sleep

1956 • as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo

★ 6.2

Alexander's Ragtime Band

1938 • as Photographer

★ 6.8

The Phantom

1961 • as Jed

★ 9.0

Bird of Paradise

1932 • as Thornton

★ 5.1

Thief of Damascus

1952 • as Sinbad (as Lon Chaney)

★ 6.7

Manfish

1956 • as Swede

★ 4.0

Badlands of Dakota

1941 • as Jack McCall

★ 6.1

Black Spurs

1965 • as Kile

★ 6.3

Submarine Patrol

1938 • as Marine Sentry

★ 6.7

Slave Ship

1937 • as Laborer Killed at Launching

★ 5.1

Indestructible Man

1956 • as Charles "Butcher" Benton

★ 4.4

Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld

1994 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 8.5

The Black Pirates

1954 • as Padre Felipe

★ 4.9

Pardners

1956 • as Whitey

★ 6.7

Young Fury

1964 • as Bartender

★ 5.6

Passport Husband

1938 • as Bull

★ 7.0

A Lion Is in the Streets

1953 • as Spurge McManamee

★ 5.4

Town Tamer

1965 • as Charlie Leach

★ 6.8

Raiders of the Seven Seas

1953 • as Peg Leg (as Lon Chaney)

★ 6.1

Crazy House

1943 • as Cameo Appearance

★ 6.0

Universal Horror

1998 • as (archive footage)

★ 7.1

Cobra Woman

1944 • as Hava

★ 5.4

Flame of Araby

1951 • as Borka Barbarossa

★ 6.2

Captain Hurricane

1935 • as Dave

★ 6.0

North to the Klondike

1942 • as Nate Carson

★ 7.1

Buckskin

1968 • as Sheriff Tangley

★ 5.6

This Is My Affair

1937 • as Federal Agent in Baltimore Bank

★ 7.3

Sally, Irene and Mary

1938 • as Policeman

★ 6.8

The Three Musketeers

1933 • as Lt. Armand Corday

★ 5.7

Dracula in the Movies

1992 • as (archive footage)

★ 10.0

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Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook

1991 • as Lawrence Talbot / The Monster (archive footage)

★ 6.3

The Frozen Ghost

1945 • as Alex Gregor, aka Gregor the Great

★ 6.3

Money, Women and Guns

1958 • as Art Birdwell

★ 5.8

Here Come the Co-Eds

1945 • as Johnson

★ 5.9

Albuquerque

1948 • as Steve Murkill

★ 6.8

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

2014 • as The Wolf Man / Larry Talbot (archive footage)

★ 7.5

Jivaro

1954 • as Pedro Martines

★ 5.2

Wild and Woolly

1937 • as Dutch

★ 10.0

Johnny Reno

1966 • as Sheriff Hodges

★ 6.5

Big House, U.S.A

1955 • as Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith

★ 6.6

Love and Hisses

1937 • as Attendant

★ 10.0

Lucky Devils

1933 • as Frankie

★ 6.4

The Bushwhackers

1951 • as Artemus Taylor

★ 5.9

The Cyclops

1957 • as Martin 'Marty' Melville

★ 4.5

The Boy from Oklahoma

1954 • as Crazy Charlie (as Lon Chaney)

★ 5.7

City in Darkness

1939 • as Pierre

★ 6.5

Midnight Taxi

1937 • as Detective Erickson

★ 6.2

Scarlet River

1933 • as Jeff Todd (as Creighton Chaney)

★ 5.6

Rose Bowl

1936 • as Sierra Football Player

★ 7.0

Riders of Death Valley

1941 • as Henchman Butch

★ 6.8

The Lady Escapes

1937 • as Reporter (uncredited)

★ 7.0

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

2007 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 9.0

Once a Thief

1950 • as Gus (as Lon Chaney)

★ 5.3

Charlie Chan on Broadway

1937 • as Desk Reporter

★ 7.1

Calling Dr. Death

1943 • as Dr. Mark Steel

★ 6.4

The Many Faces of Dracula

2000 • as Count Dracula (archive footage)

★ 3.5

Strange Confession

1945 • as Jeff Carter

★ 6.8

The Counterfeiters

1948 • as Louie Struber

★ 6.3

Face of the Screaming Werewolf

1965 • as The Mummified Werewolf

★ 4.2

Captain China

1950 • as Red Lynch

★ 5.5

Pillow of Death

1945 • as Wayne Fletcher

★ 6.6

Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire

2007 • as Himself (archive footage)

★ 6.3

Ghost Catchers

1944 • as Bear

★ 6.1

Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer

1956 • as Blackfish

★ 4.5

Stage to Thunder Rock

1964 • as Henry Parker(as Lon Chaney)

★ 6.4

Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook

1991 • as Count Dracula / The Wolf Man (archive footage)

★ 9.5

Hillbillys in a Haunted House

1967 • as Maximillian

★ 2.8

Son of the Border

1933 • as Jack Breen

★ 7.3

Pistols 'n' Petticoats

1967 • as Chief Eagle Shadow

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The Marriage Bargain

1935 • as Bob Gordon

★ 8.0

Angel's Holiday

1937 • as Eddie

★ 6.0

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Too Many Blondes

1941 • as Marvin Gimble

★ 8.0

Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces

1995 • as (archive footage)

★ 9.0

Born Reckless

1937 • as Garage Mechanic

★ 5.4

The Black Castle

1952 • as Gargon

★ 6.4

Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed

Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed

2000 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.0

Behave Yourself!

1951 • as Pinky

★ 6.2

Accent on Youth

1935 • as Chuck

★ 6.7

Halloween Monster Bash

1991 • as Butcher Benton (archive footage)

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

2000 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 6.8

Wife, Doctor and Nurse

1937 • as Scott, the Chauffeur

★ 7.0

Josette

1938 • as Boatman

★ 7.2

The Wolfman

1966 • as Larry Talbot

★ 7.7

Cheyenne Rides Again

1937 • as Girard

★ 6.0

The Female Bunch

1971 • as Monti

★ 4.8

Kitchen Mechanics

1949 • as Johnson (archive footage)

★ 7.5

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Oysters and Muscles

1948 • as Strangler Johnson

Walking Down Broadway

1938 • as Delivery Man

★ 6.8

Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors

1967 • as Dr. Mendell

★ 4.5

House of the Black Death

1965 • as Belial Desard

★ 4.1

16 Fathoms Deep

1948 • as Mr. Demitri (as Lon Chaney)

★ 5.6

Desert Command

1946 • as Lt. Armand Corday

★ 4.2

Weird Woman

1944 • as Prof. Norman Reed

★ 6.0

Bride of the Gorilla

1951 • as Commissioner Taro

★ 4.8

Frontier Badmen

1943 • as Chango

★ 7.0

The Life of Vergie Winters

1934 • as Hugo McQueen

★ 5.7

Battles of Chief Pontiac

1952 • as Chief Pontiac

★ 5.7

Sixteen Fathoms Deep

1934 • as Joe Bethel

★ 4.0

Witchcraft

1964 • as Morgan Whitlock

★ 6.7

The Last Frontier

1932 • as Tom Kirby, aka The Black Ghost

★ 7.0

Killer at Large

1936 • as Second Coffin Man

★ 8.0

Straight, Place and Show

1938 • as Martin

★ 7.0

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Fun on the Run

1949 • as Johnson

★ 8.0

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Heroes of Horror

2001 • as (archive footage)

★ 8.7

Dead Man's Eyes

1944 • as David Stuart

★ 6.6

San Antonio Rose

1941 • as Jigsaw Kennedy

★ 7.0

Inside Straight

1951 • as Shocker / Schockovitz Ninkovitch (as Lon Chaney)

★ 4.9

Overland Mail

1942 • as Jim Lane

★ 10.0

Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.

Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.

2010 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 7.0

Eyes of the Underworld

1942 • as Benny

★ 5.6

One Mile from Heaven

1937 • as Policeman

★ 6.6

The Silver Star

1955 • as John W. Harmon (as Lon Chaney)

★ 5.5

The Daltons Ride Again

1945 • as Grat Dalton

★ 5.0

The Devil's Messenger

1962 • as Satan

★ 4.7

Secret Agent X-9

1937 • as Maroni

★ 7.3

The Old Corral

1936 • as Garland - Simms partner

★ 7.5

The Big Chase

1954 • as Henchman Kip (archive footage) (as Lon Chaney)

★ 4.8

A Scream in the Night

1935 • as Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain

★ 5.0

The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk

1964 • as Chingachcook

★ 9.0

Abbott and Costello in the Movies

1990 • as Outtake

Frankenstein

1952 • as The Monster

★ 10.0

Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb

2007 • as Hassan (archive footage)

The Wolfman's Cure

1998 • as Lawrence Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man

The Galloping Ghost

1931 • as Henchman

★ 4.7

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What We Are Fighting For

1943 • as Bill Wallace

★ 10.0

Girl o' My Dreams

1934 • as Don Cooper

★ 4.8

Speed to Burn

1938 • as Racetrack Mug

★ 7.5

Terror in the Tropics

2006 • as Lyle Talbot (archive footage)

Along the Mohawk Trail

1957 • as Chingachgook

★ 10.0

Life Begins in College

1937 • as Gilks

★ 8.0

House of Terror

1960 • as The Mummified Werewolf

★ 6.1

The Mummy's Ghost

1968 • as Kharis, the mummy

★ 9.0

Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters

Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters

2015 • as Self (archive footage)

★ 10.0

The Singing Cowboy

1936 • as Martin

★ 4.5

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Road Demon

1938 • as Bud Casey

★ 10.0

There's a Girl in My Heart

1949 • as Johnny Colton

★ 7.0

The Shadow of Silk Lennox

1935 • as John Arthur 'Silk' Lennox

★ 5.6

Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing

1962

Monster Movie Trivia Quiz

2004

Rebellion in Cuba

1961 • as Gordo

★ 9.0

Fireball Jungle

1968 • as Sammy

★ 6.7

Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook

Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook

1991 • as Lawrence Talbot / The Wolf Man (archive footage)

★ 9.0

Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney

Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney

1928 • as Self