Lon Chaney Jr.

(aka Creighton Chaney, Lon Chaney)
February 10, 1906 - July 12, 1973
Born Creighton Tull Chaney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Son of Lon Chaney

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A Lot of Favorite Memories of Lon Chaney Jr.

Billed as "Creighton Chaney," suitably fit and dashing as a Zorro-like avenger called "The Black Ghost" (complete with phony accent) in the Poverty Row serial The Last Frontier (1932).
As the brutally aggressive villain "Captain Hakur," ramming a streamlined tank with the hero strapped to its hood through gigantic wooden gates in a much better cliffhanger, Republic's flashy, Gordonesque Undersea Kingdom (1936).
In his breakthrough role as "Lenny Small," John Steinbeck's incredibly strong but simpleminded farmworker who comes to a tragic end in spite of his best friend's best efforts in Lewis Milestone's moving Of Mice and Men (1939).
As "Akhoba," leader of a tribe of cavemen, forced to step down after an encounter a prehistoric ox, in Cecil B. DeMille's highly entertaining One Million B.C. (1940).
As "Dan McCormick," alias "Dynamo Dan the Electric Man" in his first "monster film," Universal's Man Made Monster (1941).
As "Lawrence Talbot" in Universal's classic The Wolf Man (1941).
As the "Frankenstein Monster" in Universal's The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942).
As "Kharis the Mummy" in The Mummy's Tomb (1942).
As "Jim Lane" in Univeral's western cliffhanger Overland Mail (1942).
As "Dr. Mark Steele" in Calling Dr. Death (1943).
As "Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man" in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943).
As "Count Alucard," in Son of Dracula (1943).
As "Hava," mute servant of the Cobra Woman (1944).
As "David Stewart," in Dead Man's Eyes (1944).
As as "Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man" in House of Frankenstein (1944).
As "Kharis the Mummy" in The Mummy's Curse (1944).
As "Kharis the Mummy" in The Mummy's Ghost (1944).
As "Professor Norman Reed" in Weird Woman (1944).
As "Alex Gregor" aka "Gregor the Great" in The Frozen Ghost (1945).
As "Johnson" Here Come the Co-eds in (1945).
As as "Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man" in House of Dracula (1945).
As "Wayne Fletcher" in Pillow of Death (1945).

As "Jeff Carter" in Strange Confession (1947).
As "Willie" in My Favorite Brunette (1947).
As "Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man" in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).
In heavy makeup or mask as the Frankenstein Monster as featured guest on Abbott and Costello's TV show The Colgate Comedy Hour (1951).
As "Commissioner Taro" in Bride of the Gorilla (1951).
As the Monster, heavily scarred and baldheaded in the "Frankenstein" episode of the TV show Tales of Tomorrow (January 18, 1952).
As "Gargon" in The Black Castle (1952).
As "Martin Howe" in High Noon (1952).
As "Emo" in Casanova's Big Night(1954)
As "Big Mac" in I Died a Thousand Times (1955).
As "Mungo" in The Black Sleep (1956).
As "Charles 'Butcher' Benton" in The Indestructible Man (1956).
As "Jules Samenian" in "The Golden Junkman" episode of the TV anthology series Telephone Time (April 8, 1956).
As "Martin Melville" in The Cyclops (1957).
As Hawkeye's Indian friend "Chingachgook" in the TV series The Last of the Mohicans (1957), co-starring John Hart.
As "Big Sam" in The Defiant Ones(1958).
As "Manon" in The Alligator People (1959).
As a revived mummified werewolf in La Casa del Terror (1959).
As Lenny-like "Grosch," betrayed by his old pal Elisha Cook Jr. into doing a bad thing in the "Witness for the Defense" episode of Surfside (1961).
As "Satan" hosting three stories in Devil's Messenger (1961), a feature incorporating episodes of the Swedish TV show 13 Demon Street.
As himself, the Wolf Man, the Mummy, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame in the Route 66 episode "Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing," (1962), co-starring Boris Karloff (as himself and the Frankenstein Monster!), Peter Lorre, Martita Hunt, and Betsy Jones-Moreland!
As "Simon Orne" in The Haunted Palace (1963).
As "Poppa" in the Route 66 episode "Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are," (1963).
As "O'Connor," a tough convict who gives Paladin (Richard Boone) advice about escaping from prison in the "Cage at McNab" episode of Have Gun, Will Travel (1963).
As a revived mummified werewolf in Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964).
As "Bruno" in Spider Baby (1964).
As "Lenny," spoofing his famous role in the "Monkees in a Ghost Town" episode of the TV show The Monkees (1966).
As "Groton" in Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971).

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Lon Chaney Jr.

(aka Creighton Chaney, Lon Chaney)February 10, 1906 - July 12, 1973Born Creighton Tull Chaney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

A Lot of Favorite Memories of Lon Chaney Jr.

(aka Creighton Chaney, Lon Chaney)
February 10, 1906 - July 12, 1973
Born Creighton Tull Chaney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA