Lon Chaney Jr.
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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
Credits
High Noon (1952)
as Martin Howe
Passion (1954)
as Castro (as Lon Chaney)
The Wolf Man (1941)
as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man
Casanova's Big Night (1954)
as Emo, the Murderer
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
The Movie Orgy (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man
House of Dracula (1945)
as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man
My Favorite Brunette (1947)
as Willie
Manfish (1956)
as Swede
Passport Husband (1938)
as Bull
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man
Sharad of Atlantis (1936)
as Capt. Hakur
The Alligator People (1959)
as Manon
Captain Hurricane (1935)
as Dave
Young Fury (1964)
as Bartender
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
as Groton
The Haunted Palace (1963)
as Simon Orne
Ace Drummond (1936)
as Henchman Ivan
Jesse James (1939)
as One Of James Gang
The Phantom (1961)
as Jed
Dracula in the Movies (1992)
as (archive footage)
North West Mounted Police (1940)
as Shorty
Only the Valiant (1951)
as Trooper Kebussyan
The Defiant Ones (1958)
as Big Sam
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
as The Frankenstein Monster
Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)
as Joey
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
The Silver Star (1955)
as John W. Harmon (as Lon Chaney)
Not as a Stranger (1955)
as Job Marsh
Man-Made Monster (1941)
as Dan McCormick
Union Pacific (1939)
as Dollarhide
Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)
as Desk Reporter
North to the Klondike (1942)
as Nate Carson
One Million B.C. (1940)
as Akhoba
The Black Pirates (1954)
as Padre Felipe
House of Frankenstein (1944)
as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man
Town Tamer (1965)
as Charlie Leach
Buckskin (1968)
as Sheriff Tangley
Springfield Rifle (1952)
as Pete Elm
The Indian Fighter (1955)
as Chivington
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors (1967)
as Dr. Mendell
The Frozen Ghost (1945)
as Alex Gregor, aka Gregor the Great
Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)
as Policeman
Frankenstein (1952)
as The Monster
The Trap (1922)
as Boy in Crowd Behind Gaspard (uncredited)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
as Lennie Small
Jivaro (1954)
as Pedro Martines
Welcome to Hard Times (1967)
as Avery
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire (2007)
as Himself (archive footage)
Oysters and Muscles (1948)
as Strangler Johnson
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
as The Mummy - Kharis
Pillow of Death (1945)
as Wayne Fletcher
City Girl (1938)
as Gangster (uncredited)
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
as Kharis
Pardners (1956)
as Whitey
Here Come the Co-Eds (1945)
as Johnson
Kitchen Mechanics (1949)
as Johnson (archive footage)
Too Many Blondes (1941)
as Marvin Gimble
Heroes of Horror (2001)
as (archive footage)
The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
as Kharis
Wild and Woolly (1937)
as Dutch
Law of the Lawless (1964)
as Tiny
Son of Dracula (1943)
as Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard
Spider Baby (1967)
as Bruno
The Marriage Bargain (1935)
as Bob Gordon
Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1934)
as Joe Bethel
Big House, U.S.A (1955)
as Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith
Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1967)
as Chief Eagle Shadow
Thief of Damascus (1952)
as Sinbad (as Lon Chaney)
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' (1999)
as Self (archive footage)
Love and Hisses (1937)
as Attendant
I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
as Big Mac
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
as Photographer
Apache Uprising (1965)
as Charlie Russell
The Mummy's Ghost (1968)
as Kharis, the mummy
Monster Movie Trivia Quiz (2004)
Actor
The Horror Show (1979)
as (archive footage)
Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing (1962)
Actor
Fun on the Run (1949)
as Johnson
Billy the Kid (1941)
as 'Spike' Hudson
Rebellion in Cuba (1961)
as Gordo
Riders of Death Valley (1941)
as Henchman Butch
The Black Sleep (1956)
as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo
The Devil's Messenger (1962)
as Satan
Johnny Reno (1966)
as Sheriff Hodges
Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
as David Stuart
Flame of Araby (1951)
as Borka Barbarossa
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956)
as Blackfish
Indestructible Man (1956)
as Charles "Butcher" Benton
Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
as Commissioner Taro
Bird of Paradise (1932)
as Thornton
Cobra Woman (1944)
as Hava
Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953)
as Peg Leg (as Lon Chaney)
Calling Dr. Death (1943)
as Dr. Mark Steel
The Boy from Oklahoma (1954)
as Crazy Charlie (as Lon Chaney)
Stage to Thunder Rock (1964)
as Henry Parker(as Lon Chaney)
Money, Women and Guns (1958)
as Art Birdwell
The Many Faces of Dracula (2000)
as Count Dracula (archive footage)
Frontier Marshal (1939)
as Pringle
The Female Bunch (1971)
as Monti
Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952)
as Chief Pontiac
Slave Ship (1937)
as Laborer Killed at Launching
This Is My Affair (1937)
as Federal Agent in Baltimore Bank
Black Spurs (1965)
as Kile
San Antonio Rose (1941)
as Jigsaw Kennedy
City in Darkness (1939)
as Pierre
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937)
as Scott, the Chauffeur
Eyes of the Underworld (1942)
as Benny
House of the Black Death (1965)
as Belial Desard
Captain China (1950)
as Red Lynch
Behave Yourself! (1951)
as Pinky
Universal Horror (1998)
as (archive footage)
Albuquerque (1948)
as Steve Murkill
Witchcraft (1964)
as Morgan Whitlock
Badlands of Dakota (1941)
as Jack McCall
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
Submarine Patrol (1938)
as Marine Sentry
The American Nightmare (2000)
as Self
The Lady Escapes (1937)
as Reporter (uncredited)
Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967)
as Maximillian
The Life of Vergie Winters (1934)
as Hugo McQueen
Follow the Boys (1944)
as Lon Chaney Jr. (uncredited)
The Bushwhackers (1951)
as Artemus Taylor
Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr. (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
House of Terror (1960)
as The Mummified Werewolf
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
as Lawrence Talbot / The Monster (archive footage)
The Cyclops (1957)
as Martin 'Marty' Melville
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
as Count Dracula / The Wolf Man (archive footage)
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (1994)
as Self (archive footage)
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014)
as The Wolf Man / Larry Talbot (archive footage)
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
as Spurge McManamee
Son of the Border (1933)
as Jack Breen
Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1965)
as The Mummified Werewolf
Secret Agent X-9 (1937)
as Maroni
The Last Frontier (1932)
as Tom Kirby, aka The Black Ghost
Crazy House (1943)
as Cameo Appearance
The Black Castle (1952)
as Gargon
The Galloping Ghost (1931)
as Henchman
Along the Mohawk Trail (1957)
as Chingachgook
A Scream in the Night (1935)
as Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain
Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces (1995)
as (archive footage)
The Shadow of Silk Lennox (1935)
as John Arthur 'Silk' Lennox
Josette (1938)
as Boatman
One Mile from Heaven (1937)
as Policeman
Scarlet River (1933)
as Jeff Todd (as Creighton Chaney)
Angel's Holiday (1937)
as Eddie
Abbott and Costello in the Movies (1990)
as Outtake
There's a Girl in My Heart (1949)
as Johnny Colton
What We Are Fighting For (1943)
as Bill Wallace
The Three Musketeers (1933)
as Lt. Armand Corday
Walking Down Broadway (1938)
as Delivery Man
Life Begins in College (1937)
as Gilks
Straight, Place and Show (1938)
as Martin
The Daltons Ride Again (1945)
as Grat Dalton
Girl o' My Dreams (1934)
as Don Cooper
The Singing Cowboy (1936)
as Martin
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb (2007)
as Hassan (archive footage)
Weird Woman (1944)
as Prof. Norman Reed
The Big Chase (1954)
as Henchman Kip (archive footage) (as Lon Chaney)
Overland Mail (1942)
as Jim Lane
Killer at Large (1936)
as Second Coffin Man
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
Inside Straight (1951)
as Shocker / Schockovitz Ninkovitch (as Lon Chaney)
The Old Corral (1936)
as Garland - Simms partner
Strange Confession (1945)
as Jeff Carter
The Counterfeiters (1948)
as Louie Struber
Terror in the Tropics (2006)
as Lyle Talbot (archive footage)
Frontier Badmen (1943)
as Chango
Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook (1991)
as Lawrence Talbot / The Wolf Man (archive footage)
Once a Thief (1950)
as Gus (as Lon Chaney)
Midnight Taxi (1937)
as Detective Erickson
Born Reckless (1937)
as Garage Mechanic
Desert Command (1946)
as Lt. Armand Corday
Ghost Catchers (1944)
as Bear
Cheyenne Rides Again (1937)
as Girard
Lucky Devils (1933)
as Frankie
Halloween Monster Bash (1991)
as Butcher Benton (archive footage)
Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Rose Bowl (1936)
as Sierra Football Player
The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk (1964)
as Chingachcook
16 Fathoms Deep (1948)
as Mr. Demitri (as Lon Chaney)
Accent on Youth (1935)
as Chuck
Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney (1928)
as Self
Speed to Burn (1938)
as Racetrack Mug
Fireball Jungle (1968)
as Sammy
Road Demon (1938)
as Bud Casey