Lon Chaney, Jr.
Gender: Male
Born: 10th February 1906
Died: 12th July 1973
Nationality: United States of America, France
TV programs: Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans, Tales of Tomorrow, 13 Demon Street
Movies: House of Dracula, House of Frankenstein, Of Mice and Men, Son of Dracula, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Mummy's Curse, The Wolf Man, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Overland Mail, Hillbillys in a Haunted House, Spider Baby, The Female Bunch, The Black Sleep, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost, Undersea Kingdom, Johnny Reno, Indestructible Man, Bride of the Gorilla, The Haunted Palace, Face of the Screaming Werewolf, La Casa del Terror, Here Come The Co-Eds, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Frontier Marshal, The Frozen Ghost, The Black Pirates, Welcome to Hard Times, The Devil's Messenger, Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors, Casanova's Big Night, Weird Woman, The Last Frontier, The Boy from Oklahoma, Calling Dr. Death, Pillow of Death, Dead Man's Eyes, Riders of Death Valley, Thief of Damascus, One Million B.C., Strange Confession, The Trap, San Antonio Rose, Northwest Mounted Police, Cobra Woman, Only the Valiant, High Noon, The Defiant Ones, The Old Corral, Money, Women and Guns, The Black Castle, Springfield Rifle, The Alligator People, Secret Agent X-9, Hollywood Or Bust, Albuquerque, Witchcraft, Desert Command, The Indian Fighter, The Cowboy Creed, Bob Hope: Road to Comedy, The Singing Cowboy, Charlie Chan in City in Darkness, Scream in the Night, My Favorite Brunette, Big House, U.S.A., Stage to Thunder Rock, Buckskin, Town Tamer, Young Fury, Raiders of the Seven Seas, Apache Uprising, Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer, 16 Fathoms Deep, Battles of Chief Pontiac, Abbott and Costello Funniest Routines: Vol. 2, Jivaro, Inside Straight, The Life of Vergie Winters, Bird of Paradise, House of the Black Death
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 films and as the son of famous silent film actor, Lon Chaney. He is notable for portraying Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men and Larry Talbot in The Wolf Man.
Originally credited in films as Creighton Chaney, he was first credited as "Lon Chaney, Jr." in 1935. Chaney had English, French and Irish ancestry.
Creighton was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the son of silent film star Lon Chaney and Frances Cleveland Creighton Chaney, a singing stage performer who traveled in road shows across the country with Creighton. His parents' troubled marriage ended in divorce in 1913 following his mother's scandalous public suicide attempt in Los Angeles. Young Creighton lived in various homes and boarding schools until 1916, when his father (now employed in films) married Hazel Hastings and could provide a stable home. Many articles and biographies over the years report that Creighton was led to believe his mother had died while he was a boy, and was only made aware she lived after his father's death in 1930. Lon always maintained he had a
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