Born in Oklahoma City on Feb. 10, 1906, Lon Chaney Jr. mastered the art of screen makeup techniques from his father, Lon Chaney Sr., a horror icon known as "the Man of a Thousand Faces." But even though the young Chaney made his onstage acting debut when he was just 6 months old, he was reluctant to follow in his father's footsteps, choosing instead to take jobs as a fruit picker, plumber and butcher boy.In the wake of his father's death, Chaney began to appear in feature films, most notably as the tragically strong Lennie Small in the film version of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men (1939) and as The Wolf Man (1941) -- a role that would typecast him in monster movies for the rest of his life.
In fact, when he died on July 12, 1973, of liver failure, he was the only actor to have played all four of the classic movie monsters: the Wolf Man, Frankenstein, Dracula and the Mummy.
Add AllHawkeye & the Last of the MohicansJames Fenimore Cooper's classic novel (considered by many to be the first American novel ever written) is the basis for this epic frontier adventure series. Hawkeye (John Hart) and his faithful Mohican blood brother, Chingachgook (Lon Chaney Jr.), live in New York's untamed Hudson Valley during the... Read More
AddIndestructible Man / The Monster WalksIn Indestructible Man, a scientist unwittingly revives executed criminal Butcher Benton, who now is an indestructible madman bent on revenge, while in The Monster Walks, dark doings surround the reading of a will at an ancestral mansion. Horror legend Lon Chaney Jr. works his on-screen magic in the... Read More
AddOverland Mail: Chapters 1-15In this 1940s serial, someone is attacking Pony Express riders on the Overland Mail route, and it's up to Frontier Marshals Jim Lane and Sierra Pete to find the culprit. They know a local Indian tribe is carrying out the attacks, but they suspect someone else is driving their actions. As the attacks... Read More
AddThe Last FrontierIn this classic Western, frontier newspaper editor Tom Kirby battles an infamous outlaw named Tiger Morris, who's inciting the Indians to rise up and drive away settlers -- all so Tiger can claim the rights to a gold deposit. But with the help of Gen. Custer, right (and a little bit of might) just... Read More
AddWitchcraftWhen her grave is disturbed by greedy land developers, a vengeful witch (Yvette Rees) who was burned at the stake some 300 years ago rises again to terrorize the descendants of the family who killed her. Horror icon Lon Chaney Jr. -- the son of Hollywood's "Man of a Thousand Faces" who was best... Read More
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