Lon Chaney Jr.
Biography
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
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Wagon Train
1957
Wagon Train
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
The Rifleman
1958
Climax!
1954
Climax!
1954
The Red Skelton Show
1951
The Red Skelton Show
1951
The Red Skelton Show
1951
The Red Skelton Show
1951
Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self · 1962
Wagon Train
as Louis Roque · 1957
Wagon Train
as Carstairs · 1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
as William Ceilbleu · 1957
Have Gun, Will Travel
as O'Connor - Inmate · 1957
The Rifleman
as Charlie Gordo · 1958
Climax!
as Frank Wiggins · 1954
Climax!
as Old Man Hawley · 1954
The Red Skelton Show
as Sgt. Williams · 1951
The Red Skelton Show
as Lon Chaney · 1951
The Red Skelton Show
as George · 1951
The Red Skelton Show
as Mad Scientist · 1951
The Red Skelton Show
as Ug · 1951
Rawhide
as Jesse Childress · 1959
Rawhide
as Rock · 1959
Route 66
as Poppa Duplessis · 1960
Route 66
as Lon Chaney · 1960
Route 66
as Colby · 1960
Wanted: Dead or Alive
as Sheriff Lon Paulson · 1958
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self · 1948
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
as Michael Peters · 1956
Lawman
as Jess Bridges · 1958
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self - Frankenstein Monster · 1950
Bat Masterson
as Rance Fletcher · 1958
The Monkees
as Lenny · 1966
Adventures in Paradise
as Trader One Arm · 1959
Surfside 6
· 1960
The Texan
as Wylie Ames · 1958
Studio 57
as Jubal Pickett · 1954
Telephone Time
as Jules Samenian · 1956
Tombstone Territory
as Ex-Marshal Daggett · 1957
The Deputy
as Tom Arnold · 1959
Lock-Up
· 1959
Tales of Tomorrow
· 1951
Cavalcade of America
as Old Jeff Harris · 1952
Cavalcade of America
as Zeke Wells · 1952
Stagecoach West
as Ben Wait · 1960
High Noon
as Martin Howe · 1952
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
as Chingachgook · 1957
Johnny Ringo
as Ben Rafferty · 1959
The Whistler
· 1954
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
· 1966
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
as Chief Eagle Shadow · 1966
The Wolf Man
as Larry Talbot / The Wolf Man · 1941
General Electric Theater
as Bucknell · 1953
The Defiant Ones
as Big Sam · 1958
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
as Alaskan Trapper · 1951
House of Frankenstein
as Lawrence 'Larry' Talbot (aka The Wolf Man) · 1944
The Haunted Palace
as Simon Orne · 1963
Jesse James
as One Of James Gang · 1939
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
as The Wolfman · 1948
Of Mice and Men
as Lennie Small · 1939
The Ghost of Frankenstein
as The Frankenstein Monster · 1942
The Mummy's Curse
as Kharis · 1944
The Indian Fighter
as Chivington · 1955
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
as Lawrence 'Larry' Stewart Talbot / The Wolf Man · 1943
Welcome to Hard Times
as Avery · 1967
Only the Valiant
as Trooper Kebussyan · 1951
House of Dracula
as Lawrence Stewart Talbot · 1945
Union Pacific
as Dollarhide · 1939
North West Mounted Police
as Shorty · 1940
Son of Dracula
as Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard · 1943
Not as a Stranger
as Job Marsh · 1955
Law of the Lawless
as Tiny · 1964
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self (archive footage) · 2025
I Died a Thousand Times
as Big Mac · 1955
The Alligator People
as Manon · 1959
Mr. Moto's Gamble
as Joey · 1938
Young Fury
as Bartender · 1964
The American Nightmare
as Self · 2000
One Million B.C.
as Akhoba · 1940
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage) · 1968
Spider Baby
as Bruno · 1967
Man-Made Monster
as Dan McCormick · 1941
My Favorite Brunette
as Willie · 1947
Springfield Rifle
as Pete Elm · 1952
The Mummy's Ghost
as Kharis · 1944
Alexander's Ragtime Band
as Photographer · 1938
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
as Self (archive footage) · 2000
The Mummy's Tomb
as The Mummy - Kharis · 1942
Passion
as Castro (as Lon Chaney) · 1954
Here Come the Co-Eds
as Johnson · 1945
Casanova's Big Night
as Emo, the Murderer · 1954
Pardners
as Whitey · 1956
Dracula vs. Frankenstein
as Groton · 1971
Dracula in the Movies
as (archive footage) · 1992
Town Tamer
as Charlie Leach · 1965
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
as Self (archive footage) · 2007
Sharad of Atlantis
as Capt. Hakur · 1936
Stage to Thunder Rock
as Henry Parker(as Lon Chaney) · 1964
Raiders of the Seven Seas
as Peg Leg (as Lon Chaney) · 1953
13 Demon Street
as Host · 1959
Captain Hurricane
as Dave · 1935
Frontier Marshal
as Pringle · 1939
Sally, Irene and Mary
as Policeman · 1938
City Girl
as Gangster (uncredited) · 1938
Johnny Reno
as Sheriff Hodges · 1966
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
as Self (archive footage) · 1999
Straight, Place and Show
as Martin · 1938
Money, Women and Guns
as Art Birdwell · 1958
The Phantom
as Jed · 1961
Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing
· 1962
Apache Uprising
as Charlie Russell · 1965
Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld
as Self (archive footage) · 1994
Charlie Chan on Broadway
as Desk Reporter · 1937
Passport Husband
as Bull · 1938
Cobra Woman
as Hava · 1944
The Boy from Oklahoma
as Crazy Charlie (as Lon Chaney) · 1954
A Lion Is in the Streets
as Spurge McManamee · 1953
The Black Pirates
as Padre Felipe · 1954
Bride of the Gorilla
as Commissioner Taro · 1951
Riders of Death Valley
as Henchman Butch · 1941
Thief of Damascus
as Sinbad (as Lon Chaney) · 1952
Big House, U.S.A
as Leonard M. 'Alamo' Smith · 1955
Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
as Dr. Mendell · 1967
There's a Girl in My Heart
as Johnny Colton · 1949
This Is My Affair
as Federal Agent in Baltimore Bank · 1937
Ace Drummond
as Henchman Ivan · 1936
Black Spurs
as Kile · 1965
Billy the Kid
as 'Spike' Hudson · 1941
The Life of Vergie Winters
as Hugo McQueen · 1934
Hillbillys in a Haunted House
as Maximillian · 1967
The Many Faces of Dracula
as Count Dracula (archive footage) · 2000
Dead Man's Eyes
as David Stuart · 1944
Indestructible Man
as Charles "Butcher" Benton · 1956
Eyes of the Underworld
as Benny · 1942
The Black Sleep
as Dr. Munroe, aka Mungo · 1956
The Trap
as Boy in Crowd Behind Gaspard (uncredited) · 1922
House of the Black Death
as Belial Desard · 1965
Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Lawrence Talbot / The Monster (archive footage) · 1991
Bird of Paradise
as Thornton · 1932
The Horror Show
as (archive footage) · 1979
The Black Castle
as Gargon · 1952
The Devil's Messenger
as Satan · 1962
Behave Yourself!
as Pinky · 1951
Wife, Doctor and Nurse
as Scott, the Chauffeur · 1937
Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
as Blackfish · 1956
Battles of Chief Pontiac
as Chief Pontiac · 1952
Flame of Araby
as Borka Barbarossa · 1951
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
as The Wolf Man / Larry Talbot (archive footage) · 2014
One Mile from Heaven
as Policeman · 1937
Son of the Border
as Jack Breen · 1933
Badlands of Dakota
as Jack McCall · 1941
Weird Woman
as Prof. Norman Reed · 1944
Slave Ship
as Laborer Killed at Launching · 1937
Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb
as Hassan (archive footage) · 2007
The Frozen Ghost
as Alex Gregor, aka Gregor the Great · 1945
Manfish
as Swede · 1956
The Daltons Ride Again
as Grat Dalton · 1945
The Three Musketeers
as Lt. Armand Corday · 1933
Buckskin
as Sheriff Tangley · 1968
Universal Horror
as (archive footage) · 1998
Face of the Screaming Werewolf
as The Mummified Werewolf · 1965
Submarine Patrol
as Marine Sentry · 1938
Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces
as (archive footage) · 1995
Frankenstein
as The Monster · 1952
Inside Straight
as Shocker / Schockovitz Ninkovitch (as Lon Chaney) · 1951
The Female Bunch
as Monti · 1971
The Cyclops
as Martin 'Marty' Melville · 1957
Pistols 'n' Petticoats
as Chief Eagle Shadow · 1967
House of Terror
as The Mummified Werewolf · 1960
Secret Agent X-9
as Maroni · 1937
North to the Klondike
as Nate Carson · 1942
Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.
as Self (archive footage) · 2010
Life Begins in College
as Gilks · 1937
The Bushwhackers
as Artemus Taylor · 1951
Follow the Boys
as Lon Chaney Jr. (uncredited) · 1944
Kitchen Mechanics
as Johnson (archive footage) · 1949
Jivaro
as Pedro Martines · 1954
A Scream in the Night
as Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain · 1935
Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed
as Self (archive footage) · 2000
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Count Dracula / The Wolf Man (archive footage) · 1991
City in Darkness
as Pierre · 1939
Love and Hisses
as Attendant · 1937
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
as Himself (archive footage) · 2007
Terror in the Tropics
as Lyle Talbot (archive footage) · 2006
Monster Movie Trivia Quiz
· 2004
Heroes of Horror
as (archive footage) · 2001
Albuquerque
as Steve Murkill · 1948
What We Are Fighting For
as Bill Wallace · 1943
Girl o' My Dreams
as Don Cooper · 1934
Abbott and Costello in the Movies
as Outtake · 1990
Witchcraft
as Morgan Whitlock · 1964
The Mummy's Ghost
as Kharis, the mummy · 1968
Strange Confession
as Jeff Carter · 1945
The Big Chase
as Henchman Kip (archive footage) (as Lon Chaney) · 1954
The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk
as Chingachcook · 1964
Wild and Woolly
as Dutch · 1937
Along the Mohawk Trail
as Chingachgook · 1957
Walking Down Broadway
as Delivery Man · 1938
Captain China
as Red Lynch · 1950
The Silver Star
as John W. Harmon (as Lon Chaney) · 1955
Josette
as Boatman · 1938
Crazy House
as Cameo Appearance · 1943
Calling Dr. Death
as Dr. Mark Steel · 1943
Ghost Catchers
as Bear · 1944
Midnight Taxi
as Detective Erickson · 1937
Overland Mail
as Jim Lane · 1942
Fun on the Run
as Johnson · 1949
Sixteen Fathoms Deep
as Joe Bethel · 1934
Too Many Blondes
as Marvin Gimble · 1941
The Marriage Bargain
as Bob Gordon · 1935
Oysters and Muscles
as Strangler Johnson · 1948
Desert Command
as Lt. Armand Corday · 1946
Pillow of Death
as Wayne Fletcher · 1945
Speed to Burn
as Racetrack Mug · 1938
The Galloping Ghost
as Henchman · 1931
Halloween Monster Bash
as Butcher Benton (archive footage) · 1991
The Singing Cowboy
as Martin · 1936
Rebellion in Cuba
as Gordo · 1961
Lucky Devils
as Frankie · 1933
Rose Bowl
as Sierra Football Player · 1936
The Old Corral
as Garland - Simms partner · 1936
The Counterfeiters
as Louie Struber · 1948
Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters
as Self (archive footage) · 2015
The Lady Escapes
as Reporter (uncredited) · 1937
Frontier Badmen
as Chango · 1943
16 Fathoms Deep
as Mr. Demitri (as Lon Chaney) · 1948
San Antonio Rose
as Jigsaw Kennedy · 1941
Born Reckless
as Garage Mechanic · 1937
The Shadow of Silk Lennox
as John Arthur 'Silk' Lennox · 1935
Killer at Large
as Second Coffin Man · 1936
Angel's Holiday
as Eddie · 1937
Cheyenne Rides Again
as Girard · 1937
Once a Thief
as Gus (as Lon Chaney) · 1950
Accent on Youth
as Chuck · 1935
Scarlet River
as Jeff Todd (as Creighton Chaney) · 1933
The Last Frontier
as Tom Kirby, aka The Black Ghost · 1932
Road Demon
as Bud Casey · 1938
Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney
as Self · 1928
Wolfman Chronicles: A Cinematic Scrapbook
as Lawrence Talbot / The Wolf Man (archive footage) · 1991
Fireball Jungle
as Sammy · 1968