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