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Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 10, 1906
Died
July 12, 1973
Place of Birth
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Also Known As
- Creighton Tull Chaney
- Creighton Chaney
- Lon Chaney
- Лон Чейни-мл.
- Лон Чейни младший
- Лон Чейни мл.
- لان چینی جونیور
Lon Chaney Jr.
0.8 Popularity
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.
Known For
0.0
Self - (archive footage)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
10.0
Self (archive footage)
Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters
2015
7.5
The Wolf Man / Larry Talbot (archive footage)
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.
2010
6.3
Himself (archive footage)
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
2007
9.0
Self (archive footage)
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
2007
0.0
Hassan (archive footage)
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
2007
0.0
Lyle Talbot (archive footage)
Terror in the Tropics
2006
7.6
Charles Benton in The Indestructible Man (archive footage)
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004
0.0
Monster Movie Trivia Quiz
2004
Credits
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
2025
0.0
Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters
as Self (archive footage)
2015
10.0
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
as The Wolf Man / Larry Talbot (archive footage)
2014
7.5
Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.
as Self (archive footage)
2010
7.0
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
as Himself (archive footage)
2007
6.3
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
as Self (archive footage)
2007
9.0
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
as Hassan (archive footage)
2007
0.0
Terror in the Tropics
as Lyle Talbot (archive footage)
2006
0.0
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Charles Benton in The Indestructible Man (archive footage)
2004
7.6
Monster Movie Trivia Quiz
2004
0.0
🎬
Heroes of Horror
as (archive footage)
2001
9.0
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
as Self (archive footage)
2000
6.5
The American Nightmare
as Self
2000
6.8
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
as Self (archive footage)
2000
7.0
The Many Faces of Dracula
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
2000
3.5
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
as Self (archive footage)
1999
6.9
Universal Horror
as (archive footage)
1998
7.1
The Wolfman's Cure
as Lawrence Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man
1998
0.0
Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces
as (archive footage)
1995
9.0
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
as Self (archive footage)
1994
7.0
Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Lawrence Talbot / The Wolf Man (archive footage)
1991
8.0
🎬
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Lawrence Talbot / The Monster (archive footage)
1991
5.7
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Count Dracula / The Wolf Man (archive footage)
1991
10.0
Abbott and Costello in the Movies
as Outtake
1990
0.0
The Horror Show
as (archive footage)
1979
3.8
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
as Groton
1971
4.5
The Female Bunch
as Monti
1971
4.8
Fireball Jungle
as Sammy
1968
6.0
Buckskin
as Sheriff Tangley
1968
5.4
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
1968
6.3
Spider Baby
as Bruno
1967
6.9
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
as Chief Eagle Shadow
1967
0.0
Hillbillys in a Haunted House
as Maximillian
1967
2.6
Welcome to Hard Times
as Avery
1967
5.1
Gallery of Horror
as Dr. Mendell
1967
4.4
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
1966
7.5
The Monkees
as Lenny
1966
6.5
Johnny Reno
as Sheriff Hodges
1966
6.4
Apache Uprising
as Charlie Russell
1965
6.2
Town Tamer
as Charlie Leach
1965
6.5
Black Spurs
as Kile
1965
6.1
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
as The Mummified Werewolf
1965
4.0
House of the Black Death
as Belial Desard
1965
3.8
Stage to Thunder Rock
as Henry Parker(as Lon Chaney)
1964
6.0
Young Fury
as Bartender
1964
5.3
Law of the Lawless
as Tiny
1964
6.1
Witchcraft
as Morgan Whitlock
1964
6.6
The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk
as Chingachcook
1964
0.0
The Haunted Palace
as Simon Orne
1963
6.7
Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing
1962
0.0
The Devil's Messenger
as Satan
1962
4.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
Rebellion in Cuba
as Gordo
1961
0.0
The Phantom
as Jed
1961
0.0
Route 66
as Poppa Duplessis
1960
6.3
Route 66
as Lon Chaney
1960
6.3
Route 66
as Colby
1960
6.3
Surfside 6
1960
5.0
Stagecoach West
as Ben Wait
1960
6.0
House of Terror
as The Mummified Werewolf
1960
5.8
Adventures in Paradise
as Trader One Arm
1959
5.7
Johnny Ringo
as Ben Rafferty
1959
5.7
Lock-Up
1959
6.2
The Deputy
as Tom Arnold
1959
6.2
The Alligator People
as Manon
1959
5.6
Rawhide
as Jesse Childress
1959
7.2
Rawhide
as Rock
1959
7.2
13 Demon Street
as Host
1959
8.0
Bat Masterson
as Rance Fletcher
1958
6.1
Lawman
as Jess Bridges
1958
5.6
Money, Women and Guns
as Art Birdwell
1958
5.3
The Rifleman
as Charlie Gordo
1958
7.1
The Texan
as Wylie Ames
1958
5.5
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Sheriff Lon Paulson
1958
6.8
The Defiant Ones
as Big Sam
1958
7.1
Tombstone Territory
as Ex-Marshal Daggett
1957
6.2
Wagon Train
as Louis Roque
1957
6.6
Wagon Train
as Carstairs
1957
6.6
Have Gun, Will Travel
as William Ceilbleu
1957
7.3
Have Gun, Will Travel
as O'Connor - Inmate
1957
7.3
The Cyclops
as Martin 'Marty' Melville
1957
4.5
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
as Chingachgook
1957
4.8
Along the Mohawk Trail
as Chingachgook
1957
0.0
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Michael Peters
1956
6.0
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
as Blackfish
1956
3.7
Pardners
as Whitey
1956
6.7
The Black Sleep
as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
1956
6.1
Telephone Time
as Jules Samenian
1956
6.3
Indestructible Man
as Charles "Butcher" Benton
1956
4.2
Manfish
as Swede
1956
3.7
The Indian Fighter
as Chivington
1955
6.2
I Died a Thousand Times
as Big Mac
1955
6.1
Not as a Stranger
as Job Marsh
1955
6.2
The Silver Star
as John W. Harmon (as Lon Chaney)
1955
5.0
Big House, U.S.A
as Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith
1955
6.6
The Black Pirates
as Padre Felipe
1954
4.1
Climax!
as Frank Wiggins
1954
3.3
Climax!
as Old Man Hawley
1954
3.3
Passion
as Castro (as Lon Chaney)
1954
5.2
Studio 57
as Jubal Pickett
1954
0.0
🎬
The Whistler
1954
0.0
The Big Chase
as Henchman Kip (archive footage) (as Lon Chaney)
1954
4.3
Casanova's Big Night
as Emo, the Murderer
1954
5.8
The Boy from Oklahoma
as Crazy Charlie (as Lon Chaney)
1954
5.2
Jivaro
as Pedro Martines
1954
5.2
A Lion Is in the Streets
as Spurge McManamee
1953
5.1
Raiders of the Seven Seas
as Peg Leg (as Lon Chaney)
1953
5.7
General Electric Theater
as Bucknell
1953
6.4
Battles of Chief Pontiac
as Chief Pontiac
1952
5.4
The Black Castle
as Gargon
1952
6.4
Springfield Rifle
as Pete Elm
1952
6.3
Cavalcade of America
as Old Jeff Harris
1952
3.5
Cavalcade of America
as Zeke Wells
1952
3.5
High Noon
as Martin Howe
1952
7.7
Thief of Damascus
as Sinbad (as Lon Chaney)
1952
5.8
Frankenstein
as The Monster
1952
10.0
Flame of Araby
as Borka Barbarossa
1951
6.1
The Bushwhackers
as Artemus Taylor
1951
5.1
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Alaskan Trapper
1951
7.2
Bride of the Gorilla
as Commissioner Taro
1951
4.8
The Red Skelton Show
as Sgt. Williams
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
as Lon Chaney
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
as George
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
as Mad Scientist
1951
7.4
The Red Skelton Show
as Ug - Prehistoric Cave Man
1951
7.4
Behave Yourself!
as Pinky
1951
6.0
Tales of Tomorrow
1951
6.0
Only the Valiant
as Trooper Kebussyan
1951
6.4
Inside Straight
as Shocker / Schockovitz Ninkovitch (as Lon Chaney)
1951
4.2
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self - Frankenstein Monster
1950
6.8
Once a Thief
as Gus (as Lon Chaney)
1950
5.0
Captain China
as Red Lynch
1950
4.6
There's a Girl in My Heart
as Johnny Colton
1949
0.0
Kitchen Mechanics
as Johnson (archive footage)
1949
5.0
🎬
Fun on the Run
as Johnson
1949
0.0
16 Fathoms Deep
as Mr. Demitri (as Lon Chaney)
1948
4.5
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
as The Wolfman
1948
7.1
The Counterfeiters
as Louie Struber
1948
5.6
Albuquerque
as Steve Murkill
1948
6.8
My Favorite Brunette
as Willie
1947
6.6
Desert Command
as Lt. Armand Corday
1946
3.6
Pillow of Death
as Wayne Fletcher
1945
6.5
House of Dracula
as Lawrence Stewart Talbot
1945
5.5
The Daltons Ride Again
as Grat Dalton
1945
3.0
Strange Confession
as Jeff Carter
1945
6.8
The Frozen Ghost
as Alex Gregor, aka Gregor the Great
1945
6.3
Here Come the Co-Eds
as Johnson
1945
5.7
The Mummy's Curse
as Kharis
1944
5.5
House of Frankenstein
as Lawrence 'Larry' Talbot (aka The Wolf Man)
1944
6.0
Dead Man's Eyes
as David Stuart
1944
6.6
The Mummy's Ghost
as Kharis
1944
5.6
Ghost Catchers
as Bear
1944
5.7
Cobra Woman
as Hava
1944
5.2
Follow the Boys
as Lon Chaney Jr. (uncredited)
1944
5.3
Weird Woman
as Prof. Norman Reed
1944
6.0
Calling Dr. Death
as Dr. Mark Steel (as Lon Chaney)
1943
6.4
Son of Dracula
as Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard
1943
5.8
Crazy House
as Cameo Appearance
1943
5.0
Frontier Badmen
as Chango
1943
0.0
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
as Lawrence 'Larry' Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man
1943
6.2
🎬
What We Are Fighting For
as Bill Wallace
1943
0.0
The Mummy's Tomb
as The Mummy - Kharis
1942
5.5
Eyes of the Underworld
as Benny
1942
4.8
Overland Mail
as Jim Lane
1942
0.0
The Ghost of Frankenstein
as The Frankenstein Monster
1942
5.8
North to the Klondike
as Nate Carson
1942
6.8
The Wolf Man
as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man
1941
7.0
Badlands of Dakota
as Jack McCall
1941
5.9
🎬
Too Many Blondes
as Marvin Gimble
1941
0.0
Riders of Death Valley
as Henchman Butch
1941
6.5
San Antonio Rose
as Jigsaw Kennedy
1941
7.0
Billy the Kid
as 'Spike' Hudson
1941
5.0
Man-Made Monster
as Dan McCormick
1941
6.1
North West Mounted Police
as Shorty
1940
6.4
One Million B.C.
as Akhoba
1940
5.9
Of Mice and Men
as Lennie Small
1939
7.3
City in Darkness
as Pierre
1939
6.4
Frontier Marshal
as Pringle
1939
6.2
Union Pacific
as Dollarhide
1939
6.6
Jesse James
as One Of James Gang
1939
6.5
🎬
Road Demon
as Bud Casey
1938
0.0
Submarine Patrol
as Marine Sentry
1938
6.6
Straight, Place and Show
as Martin
1938
6.0
Passport Husband
as Bull
1938
6.0
Speed to Burn
as Racetrack Mug
1938
6.0
Josette
as Boatman
1938
6.5
Alexander's Ragtime Band
as Photographer
1938
6.7
Mr. Moto's Gamble
as Joey
1938
6.3
Walking Down Broadway
as Delivery Man
1938
5.7
Sally, Irene and Mary
as Policeman
1938
6.0
Love and Hisses
as Attendant
1937
0.0
Life Begins in College
as Gilks
1937
0.0
Charlie Chan on Broadway
as Desk Reporter
1937
7.0
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Scott, the Chauffeur
1937
6.0
One Mile from Heaven
as Policeman
1937
6.7
The Lady Escapes
as Reporter (uncredited)
1937
0.0
Wild and Woolly
as Dutch
1937
0.0
Born Reckless
as Garage Mechanic
1937
5.1
Slave Ship
as Laborer Killed at Launching
1937
4.5
Angel's Holiday
as Eddie
1937
5.5
This Is My Affair
as Federal Agent in Baltimore Bank
1937
7.3
Secret Agent X-9
as Maroni
1937
6.7
Midnight Taxi
as Detective Erickson
1937
5.0
Cheyenne Rides Again
as Girard
1937
5.5
The Old Corral
as Garland - Simms partner
1936
6.7
Rose Bowl
as Sierra Football Player
1936
6.0
Killer at Large
as Second Coffin Man
1936
6.0
Ace Drummond
as Henchman Ivan
1936
6.5
Sharad of Atlantis
as Capt. Hakur
1936
4.2
The Singing Cowboy
as Martin
1936
3.3
The Shadow of Silk Lennox
as John Arthur 'Silk' Lennox
1935
5.0
Accent on Youth
as Chuck
1935
5.5
A Scream in the Night
as Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain
1935
4.7
Captain Hurricane
as Dave
1935
4.5
Girl o' My Dreams
as Don Cooper
1934
3.3
The Life of Vergie Winters
as Hugo McQueen
1934
5.2
Sixteen Fathoms Deep
as Joe Bethel
1934
2.3
Son of the Border
as Jack Breen
1933
9.0
The Three Musketeers
as Lt. Armand Corday
1933
5.3
Scarlet River
as Jeff Todd (as Creighton Chaney)
1933
4.5
Lucky Devils
as Frankie
1933
6.2
The Last Frontier
as Tom Kirby, aka The Black Ghost
1932
6.0
Bird of Paradise
as Thornton
1932
4.8
The Galloping Ghost
as Henchman
1931
2.0
Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney
as Self
1928
0.0
The Trap
as Boy in Crowd Behind Gaspard (uncredited)
1922
5.2