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.
AddOf Mice and MenAll that George (Burgess Meredith) and Lennie (Lon Chaney Jr.) want is a home of their own, where they can work for themselves and keep a pen of rabbits. But for the unlikely roommates, reality is to live a vagabond life, swinging from job to job and boss to boss. Just when it seems their dreams... Read More
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
AddScream in the NightOn the trail of international jewel thief Johnny Fly (Manuel López), detectives Jack Wilson (Lon Chaney Jr.) and Wu Ting (Philip Ahn) arrive in Singapore, where Fly has kidnapped beautiful young Edith Bentley (Sheila Terry) and snitched her valuable ruby. Because he looks strikingly similar to... Read More
