Lon Chaney Jr.

February 10, 1906 - July 12, 1973

Born Creighton Tull Chaney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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Movie Appearances

• 1932 The Last Frontier (feature version released as The Black Ghost) (serial) -- as Tom Kirby, alias "The Black Ghost"
• 1932 Girl Crazy -- uncredited bit part
• 1932 Bird of Paradise -- as Thornton (billed as Creighton Chaney)
• 1933 Three Musketeers, The (John Wayne serial) -- as Lt. Armand Corday (billed as Creighton Chaney)
• 1933 Scarlet River -- as Jeff Todd (billed as Creighton Chaney)
• 1933 Lucky Devils -- as ? (billed as Creighton Chaney)
• 1934 Sixteen Fathoms Deep -- as ?
• 1934 Life of Vergie Winters, The -- as Hugo McQueen
• 1934 Girl o' My Dreams -- as ? (billed as Creighton Chaney)
• 1935 Captain Hurricane -- as ?
• 1935 Accent on Youth -- as Chuck
• 1936 Undersea Kingdom (serial) -- as Captain Hakur
• 1936 The Old Corral -- as Garland
• 1936 Killer at Large -- as ?
• 1936 Ace Drummond (serial) -- as Ivan
• 1936 The Singing Cowboy -- as ?
• 1937 Wild and Wooly -- as ?
• 1937 Angel's Holiday -- as ?
• 1937 Charlie Chan on Broadway -- as Desk Man
• 1937 Life Begins in College (aka Life Begins at College) -- as ?
• 1937 Midnight Taxi -- as ?
• 1937 Second Honeymoon -- as ?
• 1937 Secret Agent X-9 (serial) -- as Maroni
• 1937 Slave Ship -- as ?
• 1937 Thin Ice (aka Lovely to Look At) -- as ?
• 1937 Wife, Doctor and Nurse -- as Chauffeur
• 1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band -- as Photographer
• 1938 Mr. Moto's Gamble -- as Joey
• 1938 Passport Husband -- as Bull
• 1938 Road Demon -- as ?
• 1938 Submarine Patrol -- as ?
• 1939 Charlie Chan in City of Darkness -- as Pierre
• 1939 Frontier Marshal -- as ?
• 1939 Jesse James -- as member of James Gang
• 1939 Of Mice and Men -- as Lenny Small
• 1939 Union Pacific -- as Dollarhide
• 1940 Northwest Mounted Police -- as Shorty
• 1940 One Million B.C. (aka Cave Dwellers, The (aka Man and His Mate) -- as Akhoba
• 1941 Badlands of Dakota -- as Jack McCall
• 1941 Billy the Kid -- as Spike Hudson
• 1941 Man Made Monster (aka Electric Man, The) (US 1953 reissue title Atomic Monster, The) -- as Dan McCormick, alias "Dynamo Dan the Electric Man"
• 1941 Riders of Death Valley (serial) -- as Butch
• 1941 San Antonio Rose -- as ?
• 1941 Too Many Blondes -- as Marvin Gimble
• 1941 The Wolf Man -- as Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man
• 1942 The Ghost of Frankenstein -- as the Frankenstein Monster
• 1942 Keeping Fit (short)
• 1942 The Mummy's Tomb -- as Kharis, the Mummy
• 1942 North to the Klondike -- as Nate Carson
• 1942 Overland Mail (serial) -- as Jim Lane
• 1943 Calling Dr. Death -- as Dr. Mark Steele
• 1943 Crazy House -- cameo
• 1943 Eyes of the Underworld -- as Benny
• 1943 Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man -- as Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man
• 1943 Frontier Badman -- as Chango
• 1943 Son of Dracula -- as Count Alucard / Count Dracula
• 1944 Cobra Woman -- as Hava, a mute servant
• 1944 Dead Man's Eyes -- as David Stewart
• 1944 Ghost Catchers -- as Horsehead
• 1944 House of Frankenstein -- as as Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man
• 1944 The Mummy's Curse -- as Kharis, the Mummy
• 1944 The Mummy's Ghost -- as Kharis, the Mummy
• 1944 Weird Woman -- as Professor Norman Reed
• 1945 The Daltons Ride Again -- as Grat Dalton
• 1945 The Frozen Ghost -- as Alex Gregor, "Gregor the Great"
• 1945 Here Come the Co-eds -- as Johnson
• 1945 House of Dracula -- as as Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man
• 1945 Pillow of Death -- as Wayne Fletcher
• 1945 Strange Confession (Universal "Inner Sanctum" thriller co-starring J. Carrol Naish; remake of Man Who Reclaimed His Head, The) -- as Jeff Carter
• 1946 Desert Command (feature release of 1933 John Wayne serial, The Three Musketeers?) -- as Lt. Armand Corday
• 1947 My Favorite Brunette -- as Willie
• 1948 16 Fathoms Deep -- as ?
• 1948 Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (aka Abbott and Costello Meet the Ghosts) (aka Brain of Frankenstein, The) (aka Meet the Ghosts) -- as Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man
• 1948 Albuquerque -- as ?
• 1949 Captain China -- as Red Lynch
• 1950 Once a Thief -- as Gus
• 1951 Behave Yourself! -- as ?
• 1951 Bride of the Gorilla -- as Commissioner Taro
• 1951 Flame of Araby -- as Borks
• 1951 Only the Valiant -- as ?
• 1952 Battles of Chief Pontiac -- as Chief Pontiac
• 1952 The Black Castle -- as Gargon
• 1952 High Noon -- as Martin Howe
• 1952 Springfield Rifle -- as Elm
• 1952 Thief of Damascus -- as Sinbad
• 1953 A Lion Is in the Streets -- as Spurge
• 1953 Raiders of 7 Seas (aka Raiders of the Seven Seas) -- as ?
• 1954 Big Chase -- as ?
• 1954 The Boy From Oklahoma -- as ?
• 1954 Casanova's Big Night -- as Emo
• 1954 Jivaro (aka Lost Treasure of the Amazon) -- as xx
• 1954 Passion -- as Castro
• 1955 Big House, U.S.A. -- as ?
• 1955 I Died a Thousand Times -- as ?
• 1955 Indian Fighter, The -- as Chivington
• 1955 Not as a Stranger -- as Job
• 1956 Black Sleep, The (US 1962 reissue title Dr. Cadman's Secret) -- as Mungo
• 1956 Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer -- as Black Fish
• 1956 The Indestructible Man -- as Charles "Butcher" Benton
• 1956 Manfish (aka Calypso) -- as Swede
• 1956 Pardners -- as Whitey
• 1957 The Cyclops -- as Martin Melville
• 1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (aka Hawkeye) (TV series) -- as Chingachgook
• 1958 Money, Women and Guns -- as Art Birdwell
• 1958 The Defiant Ones -- as Big Sam
• 1959 The Alligator People -- as Manon
• 1959 La Casa del Terror (Mexico; released in America in 1964, with deletions and additional footage, as Face of the Screaming Werewolf) -- as a revived mummified werewolf
• 1961 Devil's Messenger (Switzerland/US) -- as Satan
• 1961 The Phantom -- as ?
• 1963 The Haunted Palace -- as Simon Orne
• 1964 Face of the Screaming Werewolf (American release of Mexican film La Casa del Terror, recut with deletions and additional footage) -- as a revived mummified werewolf
• 1964 Law of the Lawless -- as ?
• 1964 Spider Baby (aka Liver Eaters, The) (aka Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told) -- as Bruno
• 1964 Stage to Thunder Rock -- as Henry Parker
• 1964 Witchcraft (UK) -- as Morgan Whitlock
• 1965 Black Spurs -- as Kile
• 1965 House of the Black Death (aka Blood of the Man Devil) -- as Belial Dessard
• 1965 Town Tamer -- as Charlie Leach
• 1966 Apache Uprising -- as Charlie Russell
• 1966 Johnny Reno -- as Sheriff Hodges
• 1966 Sharad of Atlantis (TV) -- as ?
• 1967 Welcome to Hard Times (aka Killer on a Horse) -- as Avery
• 1967 Hillbillys in a Haunted House -- as Maximillian
• 1967 Blood Suckers, The (aka Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors) (aka Gallery of Horror) (aka Return From the Past) (1981 video title Gallery of Terror) (1984 video title Alien Massacre) -- as Dr. Mendell
• 1968 Buckskin (aka Frontiersman, The) -- as Sheriff Tangley
• 1969 Female Bunch, The (aka Time to Run, A) -- as Monti
• 1971 Dracula vs. Frankenstein (aka Blood Seekers, The) (aka Blood of Frankenstein) (aka Revenge of Dracula, The) -- as Groton

Television Appearances

• 195? Colgate Comedy Hour, The featured guest of Abbott and Costello, in heavy makeup -- as the Frankenstein Monster
• 19?? Have Gun, Will Travel at least three episodes -- as ?
• 1957 Last of the Mohicans, The -- as Chingachgook
• 10/24/1966 Monkees, The "Monkees in a Ghost Town" episode -- as Lenny (spoof of Lon's famous role)
• 19?? Rifleman, The -- as ?
• 1961 Route 66 "The Mud Nest" episode, co-starring Betty Field -- as ?
• 1962 Route 66 "Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing" episode, co-starring Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Martita Hunt, and Betsy Jones-Moreland -- as himself, Wolf Man, Mummy, and Hunchback
• 1961 Route 66 "Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are" episode, co-starring Diane Baker -- as Poppa

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Last revised April 25, 2001 by George "E-gor" Chastain.
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