Biography
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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Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters
Overland Mail
High Noon
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Old Corral
The Red Skelton Show
Have Gun, Will Travel
Of Mice and Men
Rawhide
The Rifleman
The Defiant Ones
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Wanted: Dead or Alive
The Wolf Man
Ace Drummond
The Last Frontier
Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Tombstone Territory
Albuquerque
The Ed Sullivan Show
Riders of Death Valley
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Witchcraft
The Haunted Palace
Route 66
Pardners
Wagon Train
Big House, U.S.A
My Favorite Brunette
Dead Man's Eyes
Johnny Reno
Law of the Lawless
The Deputy
Telephone Time
Only the Valiant
Jesse James
Apache Uprising
The Indian Fighter
The Black Castle
Springfield Rifle
Tales of Tomorrow
Lucky Devils
Black Spurs
Not as a Stranger
The Black Sleep
I Died a Thousand Times