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Lon Chaney Jr. (February 10, 1906 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – July 12, 1973) Creighton Chaney was the son of Lon Chaney, who attempted to dissuade his son from the acting profession. He started as an extra and stunt man in movies before appearing in minor roles in a number of films, including A Scream in the Night (1935) and the serial Undersea Kingdom (1936).

Finally forced by the industry to assume his father’s name, and despite an acclaimed performance as Lenny in Of Mice and Men (1939), Chaney, Jr. was groomed as a horror star by Universal. They made him the monster in such films as Man Made Monster (1941), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Son of Dracula (1943) and a series of Mummy sequels, The Mummy's Tomb (1942), The Mummy's Ghost (1943) and The Mummy's Curse (1944).

His one genuine creation was Lawrence Talbot, the cursed lycanthrope of The Wolf Man (1941) and its sequels, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1949).

After freelancing in such films as Bride of the Gorilla (1951), Indestructible Man (1956) and Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1959), alcoholism eventually destroyed his career, and he ended his days playing pathetic supporting roles in such grade-Z productions as House of the Black Death (1965), Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967), Dr. Terror’s Gallery of Horrors (1967) and Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1970).

Roger Smith portrayed him in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957).

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