Lon Chaney Jr.
Creighton Tull Chaney, known by his stage name Lon Chaney Jr., was an American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the film The Wolf Man (1941) and its various crossovers, Count Alucard in Son of Dracula, Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), the Mummy in three pictures, and various other roles in many Universal horror films, including six films in their 1940s Inner Sanctum series, making him a horror icon. He also portrayed Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men (1939) and played supporting parts in dozens of mainstream movies, including High Noon (1952), The Defiant Ones (1958), and numerous Westerns, musicals, comedies and dramas.
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Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
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2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
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2025
Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.
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2010
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
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2007
Los Angeles Plays Itself
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2004
The American Nightmare
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2000
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
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1999
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
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1991
The Horror Show
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1979
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
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1971
Spider Baby
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1967
Welcome to Hard Times
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1967
Johnny Reno
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1966
Apache Uprising
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1965
Black Spurs
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1965
Young Fury
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1964
Law of the Lawless
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1964
Witchcraft
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1964
The Haunted Palace
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1963
Money, Women and Guns
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1958
The Defiant Ones
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1958
Pardners
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1956
The Black Sleep
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1956
Indestructible Man
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1956
The Indian Fighter
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1955
I Died a Thousand Times
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1955
Not as a Stranger
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1955
The Silver Star
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1955
Passion
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1954
Casanova's Big Night
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1954
Jivaro
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1954
A Lion Is in the Streets
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1953
Raiders of the Seven Seas
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1953
The Black Castle
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1952
Springfield Rifle
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1952
High Noon
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1952
Thief of Damascus
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1952
Flame of Araby
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1951
Bride of the Gorilla
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1951
Behave Yourself!
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1951
Only the Valiant
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1951
Captain China
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1950
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
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1948
Albuquerque
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1948
Desert Command
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1946
Pillow of Death
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1945
House of Dracula
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1945
The Mummy's Curse
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1944
House of Frankenstein
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1944
Dead Man's Eyes
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1944
The Mummy's Ghost
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1944
Cobra Woman
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1944
Son of Dracula
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1943
Crazy House
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1943
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
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1943
The Mummy's Tomb
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1942
Eyes of the Underworld
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1942
The Ghost of Frankenstein
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1942
The Wolf Man
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1941
Billy the Kid
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1941
Man-Made Monster
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1941
North West Mounted Police
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1940
One Million B.C.
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1940
Of Mice and Men
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1939
City in Darkness
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1939
Frontier Marshal
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1939
Josette
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1938
City Girl
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1938
Charlie Chan on Broadway
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1937
Born Reckless
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1937
Midnight Taxi
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1937
Sharad of Atlantis
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1936
The Life of Vergie Winters
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1934
The Three Musketeers
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1933
The Galloping Ghost
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1931
