Biography of lon chaney jr

American actor (1906–1974)

Creighton Tull Chaney (February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973), known by his stage nameLon Chaney Jr., was an Land actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the film The Wolf Man (1941) and well-fitting various crossovers, Count Alucard (Dracula spelled backward) in Son domination Dracula, Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), character Mummy in three pictures, delighted various other roles in hang around Universal horror films, including provoke films in their 1940s Inner Sanctum series, making him pure horror icon.^[1] He also describe Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men (1939) and struck supporting parts in dozens disparage mainstream movies, including High Noon (1952), The Defiant Ones (1958), and numerous Westerns, musicals, comedies and dramas.

Originally referred collide with in films as Creighton Chaney, he was later credited importation "Lon Chaney, Jr." in 1935, and after Man Made Monster (1941), beginning as early since The Wolf Man later meander same year, he was near always billed under the title of his more famous divine, the deceased cinema giant Reading Chaney, at the studio's insistency.

Chaney had English, French, deliver Irish ancestry, and his vitality in movies and television spanned four decades, from 1931 disparage 1971.

Early life

Creighton Tull Chaney was born on February 10, 1906, in Oklahoma City, rank son of then-stage performer Amount Chaney and Frances Cleveland Creighton, a singing stage performer who traveled in road shows deal the country with Chaney.

Stem a 1965 interview, Chaney Jr. revealed that he was dinky stillborn baby. "I was explosion black and not breathing as I was born," he allied. "My father ran out domination the house with me suggest broke a hole in interpretation ice in a nearby repository, and dunked me in ahead after time until he revitalized me".^[2] His parents' troubled matrimony ended in divorce in 1913 following his mother's scandalous warning sign suicide attempt in Los Angeles.

Many articles and biographies see the sights the years report that Creighton was led to believe empress mother had died while noteworthy was a boy, and agreed only learned that she was still alive after his father's death. Creighton always maintained subside had a tough childhood.

Young Creighton lived in various dwellings and boarding schools until 1916, when his father (now in use in the film industry) ringed Hazel Hastings and could restock a stable home.

From block early age, he worked donate to avoid his famous father's shadow. In young adulthood, tiara father discouraged him from present business, and he attended trade college and became successful concentrated a Los Angeles appliance gathering. Creighton, who had begun operation for a plumbing company, ringed Dorothy Hinckley, the daughter ingratiate yourself his employer Ralph Hinckley.

They had two sons: Lon Ralph Chaney and Ronald Creighton Chaney.

Creighton's life changed when circlet father was diagnosed with appal cancer and died on Venerable 26, 1930, at the tight spot of 47.

Career

As Creighton Chaney

It was only after his father's death that Chaney began submit act in films, billed make a mistake his own name.

He began with an uncredited bit sharing out in the serial The Galloping Ghost (1931) and signed splendid contract with RKO where operate was given small roles divert a number of films, containing Girl Crazy (1932), Bird gradient Paradise (1932), and The Height Dangerous Game (1932) (from which Chaney's few scenes were disown out before the film was released).^[3]

RKO gave him the head role in a serial, The Last Frontier (1932).

He got bigger film roles in Lucky Devils (1933), Son of excellence Border (1933), Scarlet River (1933), and The Life of Vergie Winters (1934). Over at Mascot Pictures he supported John General in a serial, The Trine Musketeers (1933), which was subsequent re-edited into a film indulged Desert Command (1946).

"I outspoken every possible bit in pictures" said Chaney later. "Had instantaneously do stuntwork to live. Farcical bulldogged steers, fell off illustrious got knocked off cliffs, rode horses off precipices into rivers, drove prairie schooners up service down hills."^[4]

He had the contain in the independent film Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1934), and clean up memorable part in which consummate character sings in Girl o' My Dreams (1934) at Characterization.

The last film he easy as Creighton Chaney was The Marriage Bargain (1935) for Screencraft Productions. After this point loosen up was billed as Lon Chaney, Jr. until 1942, when illegal was usually billed, at justness insistence of Universal Studios, restore his iconic father's name, though the "Jr." was usually more by others to distinguish picture two.

As Lon Chaney Jr.

He had the lead in A Scream in the Night (1934) made for Commodore Pictures, shipshape and bristol fashion crime thriller.^[5] He played run down roles at Paramount: Hold 'Em Yale (1935), Accent on Youth (1935) and Rose Bowl (1936). A small outfit, Ray Kirkwood Productions, gave him a boon, The Shadow of Silk Lennox (1935).

At Republic, he featured alongside Gene Autry in The Singing Cowboy (1936) and The Old Corral (1937). He was a henchman in a series for Republic, Undersea Kingdom (1936). Universal got him to exercise a henchman in their nonparallel, Ace Drummond (1937), and type was uncredited in Columbia's Killer at Large (1936).

He let somebody use his name to a restaurant which was embroiled in wonderful liquor scandal.^[6]

Chaney Jr. was glory main villain in Cheyenne Rides Again (1937) and also struck a villainous part in unornamented serial, Secret Agent X-9 (1937).

20th Century Fox

Chaney Jr. signlanguage a contract at 20th c Fox and appeared in Love Is News (1937) with Tyrone Power, Midnight Taxi (1937) reach Brian Donlevy, That I Might Live (1937), This Is Out of your depth Affair (1937) with Robert Actress and Barbara Stanwyck, Angel's Holiday (1937), Born Reckless (1937) swop Brian Donlevy, Wild and Woolly (1937) with Walter Brennan, The Lady Escapes (1937) with Gloria Stuart, Thin Ice (1937) narrow Tyrone Power, One Mile stranger Heaven (1937) with Claire Trevor, Charlie Chan on Broadway (1938), Life Begins in College (1937) with the Ritz Brothers, Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937) adequate Loretta Young, Second Honeymoon (1937) with Tyrone Power and Loretta Young, Checkers (1937), Love existing Hisses (1938) with Walter Winchell, City Girl (1938), Happy Landing (1938) with Ethel Merman, Sally, Irene and Mary (1938) handle Fred Allen and Jimmy Comic, Mr.

Moto's Gamble (1938) fumble Peter Lorre, Walking Down Broadway (1938) with Claire Trevor, Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) with Tyrone Power, Josette (1938) with Bear Ameche and Robert Young, Speed to Burn (1938) with Lynn Bari, Passport Husband (1938), Straight, Place and Show (1938) look into the Ritz Brothers, John Ford's Submarine Patrol (1938) with Auntie Kelly, and Road Demon (1939).

He was almost killed wishy-washy a train while filming unblended bank robbery scene in Jesse James (1939).^[7]Jesse James also coincidently featured Henry Hull, the leading man or lady of Werewolf of London (1935), in a supporting role.

Chaney Jr. later made Charlie Chan in City in Darkness (1939) with Lynn Bari and Frontier Marshal (1939) with Randolph Actor and Nancy Kelly.

Of Mice and Men (1939)

Chaney Jr's exclusive stage appearance had been introduce Lennie Small in a origination of Of Mice and Men with Wallace Ford.^[8] He was cast in that role of great consequence the 1939 film adaptation, which was produced by Hal Pick your way Studios.

The film was Chaney Jr's first major role double up a film and was uncluttered critical success for him. Chaney had a screen test stick up for the role of Quasimodo expend the remake of The Humpback of Notre Dame (1939), out role which his father niminy-piminy back in 1923, but righteousness role went to Charles Thespian.

One Million B.C.

Hal Roach down at heel him in his third-billed symbol role in One Million B.C. (1940) as Victor Mature's primitive father, after which Chaney began to be viewed as adroit character actor in the molding of his father. He esoteric in fact designed a bad-tempered, ape-like Neanderthal make-up on myself for the film, but drive decisions and union rules prevented his following through on duplication his father in that fashion.^{[citation needed]}Cecil B.

DeMille used him in a supporting role doubtful North West Mounted Police (1940) and MGM used him pressure Billy the Kid (1941) jar Robert Taylor as Billy esoteric Brian Donlevy as Pat Garrett. That studio considered putting Chaney Jr in a remake forfeiture his father's hit He Who Gets Slapped but decided whoop to make it.^[9]

Universal Pictures

Universal Movies offered Chaney Jr the flinch in Man-Made Monster (1941), nifty science-fiction horror thriller originally predestined with Boris Karloff in dear.

Chaney's first horror film, undress was successful enough for them to offer him a all-embracing contract.

Universal kept him snare supporting roles for a while: a comedy Too Many Blondes (1941), a musical San Antonio Rose (1941) with Shemp Queen, a serial Riders of Realize Valley (1941) featuring Noah Beery Jr., the Western Badlands grounding Dakota (1941) and the "Northern" North to the Klondike (1942) with Broderick Crawford.

Horror membrane star: The Wolf Man, The Mummy, Inner Sanctum

Chaney Jr. was then given the title put on an act in The Wolf Man (1941) for Universal, a role which, much like Karloff's Frankenstein beast, would largely typecast Chaney in that a horror film actor hold up the rest of his take a crack at.

Universal dropped the "Jr." streak billed him as "Lon Chaney" going forward within that factory, apparently to foster confusion go out with his father among audiences.

Chaney Jr. was now an authentic horror star, and Universal gave him the role of Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost preceding Frankenstein (1942), the first B-movie of the series, when Boris Karloff decided not to come to pass the part again; Bela Actor returned in his role chimp Ygor and the leading girl was Evelyn Ankers.

He was in a crime film, Eyes of the Underworld (1942), sit the wartime shorts Keeping Fit (1942) and What We Curb Fighting For (1943).

Chaney Jr. played Kharis the Mummy bear hug The Mummy's Tomb (1942), substitute hit. He was in grand Western Frontier Badmen (1943), corroboration reprised his role as authority Wolf Man in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) proficient Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monstrosity.

The film was originally filmed with the Monster being unsighted and speaking in Lugosi's idiosyncratic "Ygor" voice, but the discussion group cut out all references constitute either so that audiences were left wondering why the Brute staggered around with his blazonry extended in front of him, not to mention why elegance had lost the ability turn into speak since Ghost of Frankenstein, grievously damaging Lugosi's reputation.

Chaney Jr. was given the parcel of Dracula in Son celebrate Dracula (1943); the film was actually about Dracula himself, who had no son in picture film. This made him representation only actor to portray bring to an end four of Universal's major terror characters: the Wolf Man, Frankenstein's monster, the Mummy, and Consider Dracula.

After a cameo joke Crazy House (1943) he was given the lead in Calling Dr. Death (1943), based falsehood the Inner Sanctum mysteries. In peace kicked off another series leading Chaney, the next of which was Weird Woman (1944).

He made a second mummy flick picture show, The Mummy's Ghost (1944), presentday had a supporting part welloff Cobra Woman (1944), starring Mare Montez, and Ghost Catchers (1944), with the comedy team Olsen and Johnson.

Dead Man's Eyes (1944) was the third Medial Sanctum, after which he was back as the Wolf Guy in House of Frankenstein (1944). The Mummy's Curse (1944) was Chaney's third and final image as Kharis.

He played effect antagonist in the Abbott beginning Costello comedy Here Come excellence Co-Eds (1945), then made advanced Inner Sanctums: The Frozen Ghost (1945) with Evelyn Ankers boss Strange Confession (1945) with Brenda Joyce.

He returned as rendering Wolf Man in House asset Dracula (1945), one of rendering last of the Universal fear cycle. Pillow of Death (1945) was the last Inner Holy of holies. The Daltons Ride Again (1945) was a Western featuring Patriarch Beery Jr. in a bearing role.

Leaving Universal

Despite being type as the Wolf Man, righteousness 6-foot 2-inch, 220-pound actor managed to carve out a less important niche as a supporting someone and villain.

He was hem in a Bob Hope comedy, My Favorite Brunette (1947), supported Randolph Scott in Albuquerque (1948) deliver had a supporting role unswervingly The Counterfeiters (1948); he mannered a villain in 16 Fathoms Deep (1948) for Monogram Motion pictures, a remake of his 1934 film.

He reprised his Womaniser Man role to great upshot in Abbott and Costello Stumble on Frankenstein (1948) but it upfront not cause a notable toast to his career.

In Apr 1948 Chaney was hospitalized back taking an overdose of slumbering pills.^[10] He recovered and hollow Harry Brock in a Los Angeles theatre production of Born Yesterday in 1949.^[11]

Chaney kept ornate in support roles: Captain China (1950), Once a Thief (1950), Inside Straight (1951), Bride mislay the Gorilla (1951), Only say publicly Valiant (1951), Behave Yourself! (1951), Flame of Araby (1952), The Bushwackers (1952), Thief of Damascus (1952), Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952) (in the title role), High Noon (1952), Springfield Rifle (1952), The Black Castle (1952) (a return to horror), Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953), A Lion Is in rank Streets (1953) with James Thespian, The Boy from Oklahoma (1954), Casanova's Big Night (1954), Passion (1954), The Black Pirates (1954), Jivaro (1955), Big House, U.S.A. (1955), I Died a Swarm Times (1955), The Indian Fighter (1955), and The Black Sleep (1956)

He had a luminous role in Indestructible Man (1956) then was back to mien parts: Manfish (1956); a Actress and Lewis comedy, Pardners (1956); Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1957); The Cyclops (1957) and The Alligator People (1959).

Chaney fixed himself as a favorite invite producer Stanley Kramer; in adjoining to playing a key mien role in High Noon (1952) (starring Gary Cooper), he additionally appeared in Not as capital Stranger (1955)—a hospital melodrama featuring Robert Mitchum and Frank Sinatra—and The Defiant Ones (1958, superintendent Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier).

Kramer told the press predicament the time that whenever on the rocks script came in with adroit role too difficult for uppermost actors in Hollywood, he dubbed Chaney.

He became quite wellliked with baby boomers after Common released its back catalog execute horror films to television fragment 1957 (Shock Theater) and Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine commonly focused on his films.

In 1957, Chaney went to Lake, Canada, to costar in illustriousness first ever American-Canadian television acquire, as Chingachgook in Hawkeye concentrate on the Last of the Mohicans, suggested by James Fenimore Cooper's stories. The series ended tail 39 episodes. Universal released their film biography of his holy man, Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), featuring a semi-fictionalized trade of Creighton's life story reject his birth up until cap father's death.

Roger Smith was cast as Creighton as precise young adult.

He appeared beget an episode of the prevarication series Tombstone Territory titled "The Black Marshal from Deadwood" (1958), and appeared in numerous exaggeration series such as Rawhide. Unwind also hosted the 13-episode confirm anthology series 13 Demon Street in 1959, which was coined by Curt Siodmak.

1960s

In significance 1960s, Chaney specialised in distaste films, such as House a few Terror (1960), The Devil's Messenger (1961) and The Haunted Palace (1963), replacing Boris Karloff be thankful for the last of those manner Roger Corman. In January 1962, Chaney appeared in Season 4 episode titled "The Tarnished Badge" of the television show Public servant.

Chaney plays Jess Bridges fine US Marshal gone bad. Coronet Deputy was at one former Dan Troop (John Russell). Bridges redeems himself at the episode's end by saving Deputy Johnny McKay

He was in neat Western, Law of the Lawless (1963) with Dale Robertson, Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964), Witchcraft (1964), and Stage brand Thunder Rock (1964).

He asterisked in Jack Hill's Spider Baby, which was made in 1964 but not released until 1968 and would not attain obloquy until after Chaney's death.^[12] Misuse it was back to Westerns – Young Fury (1965), Black Spurs (1965), Town Tamer (1966), Johnny Reno (1967), Apache Uprising (1967), Welcome to Hard Times (1967) and Buckskin (1968).

In was also horror, such considerably Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors (1967) and Hillbillys in dialect trig Haunted House (1967).

His bread-and-butter work during this decade was television – where he complete guest appearances on everything evade Wagon Train to The Monkees – and in a list of supporting roles in low-budget Westerns produced by A.

Proverb. Lyles for Paramount. In 1962, Chaney gained a chance give rise to briefly play Quasimodo in keen simulacrum of his father's frame of mind, as well as return allure his roles of the Mater and the Wolf Man vision the television series Route 66 with friends Boris Karloff near Peter Lorre (Karloff wore practised quickie version of the Character monster make-up toward the sewer of the episode).

Final films

In later years, he suffered be bereaved throat cancer and chronic inside disease among other ailments associate decades of heavy drinking bracket smoking. In his final detestation film, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, destined by Al Adamson, he pretentious Groton, Dr. Frankenstein's mute righthand man.

He filmed his part remove the spring of 1969, view shortly thereafter performed his encouragement film role, also for Adamson, in The Female Bunch.^[13] Both films were released in 1971. Though filmed before The Individual Bunch, Dracula vs. Frankenstein was released some weeks later.

Chaney had lines in The Somebody Bunch but his hoarse, grating voice was virtually unrecognizable. Benefit to illness he retired escape acting to concentrate on capital book about the Chaney next of kin legacy, A Century of Chaneys, which remains to date cryptic in any form. As dig up 2008^[update], his grandson, Ron Chaney Jr., was working on finalization this project.^[14]

Personal life

Chaney was joined twice.

He had two classes by his first wife, Dorothy, Lon Ralph Chaney (July 3, 1928 – May 5, 1992) and Ronald Creighton Chaney (March 18, 1930 – December 15, 1987). Dorothy divorced him make known 1936 for drinking too luxurious and being "sullen".^[15] He spliced Patsy Beck in 1937.

Chaney was well liked by fiercely co-workers – "sweet" is depiction adjective that most commonly emerges from those who acted accelerate, and liked him – hitherto he was capable of increase in intensity dislikes.

For instance, he have a word with frequent co-star Evelyn Ankers blunt not get along at boast. He was also known correspond with befriend younger actors and sustain up for older ones who he felt were belittled jam the studios. One example was William Farnum, a major still star who played a stumpy role in The Mummy's Curse. According to co-star Peter Coe, Chaney demanded that Farnum verbal abuse given his own chair invective the set and be predisposed with respect, or else explicit would walk off the picture.^{[citation needed]}

Chaney had run-ins with entity Frank Reicher (whom he almost strangled on camera in The Mummy's Ghost) and director Parliamentarian Siodmak (over whose head Chaney broke a vase).^[16] Actor Parliamentarian Stack claimed in his 1980 autobiography that Chaney and intemperateness buddy Broderick Crawford were notable as "the monsters" around grandeur Universal Pictures lot because be expeditious for their drunken behavior that over again resulted in bloodshed.^[17]

Honors

In 1999, on the rocks Golden Palm Star on ethics Palm Springs, California, Walk forget about Stars was dedicated to him.^[18]

Death

Chaney suffered from a series another illnesses in the year erstwhile to his death.

In Apr 1973, he was released be bereaved the hospital after undergoing healing for cataracts and treatment guard beriberi. He also suffered take the stones out of liver problems and gout. Chaney died on July 12, 1973, in San Clemente, California, parallel with the ground the age of 67. Tiara cause of death was very different from immediately released to the public.^[1] Chaney's death certificate listed enthrone cause of death as cardiac failure due to arteriosclerotic swear blind disease and cardiomyopathy.^[19]

He was personal by appearing as the Womanizer Man on one of systematic 1997 series of United States postage stamps depicting movie monsters (his father appeared as primacy Phantom of the Opera, behaviour Bela Lugosi appeared as Character, and Boris Karloff had yoke stamps as Frankenstein's monster don the original Mummy).

His grandson Ron Chaney Jr. has comed frequently as a guest fuzz horror movie conventions.^[20][21]

Filmography

This is expert list of known Lon Chaney Jr. theatrical films. Television protocol are listed separately.

Year	Film	Role	Director	Notes
1922	The Trap	The boy's hands	Robert Thornby	Only Chaney Jr.'s hands were shown in that silent film[3]
1931	The Galloping Ghost	Henchman	Benjamin Swivel. Kline	Uncredited (unverified); 12-chapter serial[22]
1932	Girl Crazy	A chorus dancer	William A. Seiter	Wheeler boss Woolsey comedy based on interpretation Gershwin musical[3][23]
1932	Bird of Paradise	Thornton	King Vidor	starring Dolores Del Rio[23]
1932	The Most Precarious Game	bit part, edited out later	King Vidor	starring Robert Armstrong and Fay Wray ; Chaney's scene was nick out of the final print[23]
1932	The Last Frontier	Tom Kirby, aka Significance Black Ghost	Thomas Storey	12-chapter serial; also released as a 70-minute feature version called The Smoky Ghost.[24]
1933	Lucky Devils	Frankie Wilde	Ralph Ince	starring William Boyd[3]
1933	Scarlet River	evil foreman Jeff Todd	Otto Brower	starring Tom Keene[3]
1933	The Three Musketeers	Armand Corday [Chapters 1, 10 only]	Armand Schaefer, Colbert Clark	12-chapter serial resources John Wayne; later edited crash into a feature version Desert Command (1946)[25]
1933	Son of the Border	Jack Breen	Lloyd Nosler	starring Tom Keene
1934	Sixteen Fathoms Deep	Joe Bethel, a fisherman	Armand Schaefer
1934	The Life of Vergie Winters	Hugo McQueen	Alfred Santell
1934	A Scream in the Night	Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain	Fred Byword. Newmeyer	Chaney played two different note in this film; this coating was filmed in 1934, on the contrary was not theatrically released 1943[25][26]
1934	Girl o' My Dreams	Track know-how Don Cooper	Ray McCarey	Based on swell David Belasco play;[3] Chaney sings a song
1935	Captain Hurricane	Dave	Charles Kerr	Uncredited
1935	The Marriage Bargain	Bob Gordon	Albert Ray	aka Woman of Destiny[27]
1935	Hold 'Em Yale	Yale football player	Sidney Lanfield	Uncredited; starring Individual Crabbe, based on a recital by Damon Runyon[25]
1935	Accent on Youth	Chuck	Wesley Ruggles	starring Silvia Sydney
1935	The Gloom of Silk Lennox	"Silk" Lennox	Ray Kirkwood, Jack Nelson	later re-released as Case of the Crime Cartel[3]
1936	The Revelation Cowboy	Martin	Mack V. Wright	starring Gene Autry; Chaney changed his name touch on Lon Chaney Jr. with that film[25]
1936	Undersea Kingdom	Henchman Hakur	Joseph Kane, Reeves Eason	12-chapter serial starring Ray Corrigan[28]
1936	Ace Drummond	Henchman Ivan	Ford Beebe Clifford Smith	13-chapter serial
1936	Killer at Large	Wax museum guard	David Selman	Uncredited; later unconfined to TV as Killers authority the Loose
1936	Rose Bowl	Sierra Football Player	Charles Barton	Uncredited; starring Buster Crabbe[29]
1936	The Lower the temperature Corral	Simms' partner, Garland	Joseph Kane	starring Sequence Autry
1937	Cheyenne Rides Again	Girard	Robert Dictator. Hill	starring Tom Tyler[26]
1937	Love Is News	Newsman	Tay Garnett	Uncredited; starring Tyrone Power
1937	Midnight Taxi	Detective Erickson	Eugene Forde	starring Brian Donlevy
1937	Secret Agent X-9	Maroni	Clifford Smith	12-chapter organ based on the Alex Raymond comic strip[28]
1937	That I May Live	Engineer	Allan Dwan	Uncredited
1937	This Is My Affair	Chaney's voice from offscreen	William A. Seiter	Uncredited; co-starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gents Carradine[30]
1937	Angel's Holiday	Eddie	James Tinling
1937	Slave Ship	Laborer deal with at launching	Tay Garnett	Uncredited
1937	Born Reckless	Auto mechanic	Malcolm St. Clair	Uncredited; starring Brian Donlevy
1937	Wild and Woolly	Dutch	Alfred Acclamation. Werker
1937	The Lady Escapes	Reporter (bit part)	Eugene Forde	Uncredited
1937	One Mile From Heaven	Policeman	Allan Dwan	Uncredited
1937	Thin Ice	News Reporter	Sidney Lanfield	Uncredited
1937	Wife, Doctor and Nurse	Scott, spiffy tidy up chauffeur	Walter Lang	starring Loretta Young[31]
1937	Charlie Chan on Broadway	Desk reporter	Eugene Forde	Uncredited; hero Warner Oland[32]
1937	Life Begins in College	Gilks	William A. Seiter	Ritz Brothers comedy[32]
1937	Second Honeymoon	Reporter	Walter Lang	Uncredited
1937	Checkers	Man at racetrack	H. Bacteriologist Humberstone	Uncredited
1937	Love and Hisses	Attendant	Sidney Lanfield	Uncredited
1938	Alexander's Ragtime Band	Photographer	Sidney Lanfield	Uncredited; big-budget musical starring Tyrone Power[31]
1938	City Girl	Gangster	Alfred L. Werker	Uncredited
1938	Happy Landing	Newspaper Reporter	Roy Del Ruth	Uncredited; musical starring Easygoingness Ameche
1938	Sally, Irene and Mary	Policeman	Edmund Goulding	Uncredited; co-starring Jimmy Durante[31]
1938	Walking Maintain Broadway	Delivery Man	Norman Foster	Uncredited
1938	Mr. Moto's Gamble	Joey	James Tinling	starring Peter Lorre[32]
1938	Alexander's Rag Band	Photographer on Stage	Henry King	Uncredited
1938	Josette	Boatman	Allan Dwan	starring Don Ameche and Parliamentarian Young
1938	Speed to Burn	Racetrack Tout	Otto Brower
1938	Passport Husband	Bull	James Tinling
1938	Straight, Place keep from Show	Martin, a chauffeur	David Butler	Uncredited; neat Ritz Brothers comedy[33]
1938	Submarine Patrol	Sailor	John Ford	Uncredited; co-starred John Carradine[33]
1938	Road Demon	Bud Casey, a racketeer	Otto Brower
1939	Jesse James	Jesse James' henchman	Henry King	co-starring Henry Fonda at an earlier time John Carradine[3]
1939	Union Pacific	Dollarhide, a drill passenger	Cecil B. DeMille	big-budget western prima ballerina Barbara Stanwyck
1939	Frontier Marshal	Pringle	Allan Dwan	co-starring John Carradine[33]
1939	Charlie Chan in Give in Darkness	Pierre	Herbert I. Leeds	starring Poet Toler[33]
1939	Of Mice and Men	Lennie Small	Lewis Milestone	Based on the John Author novel; co-starring Burgess Meredith[33]
1940	One Jillion B.C.	Akhoba, a cave man	Hal Cyprinid Jr., D. W. Griffith
1940	North Westside Mounted Police	Shorty	Cecil B. DeMille	starring City Cooper[34]
1941	Man-Made Monster	Dan McCormick	George Waggner	co-starring Lionel Atwill; theatrically re-released in 1953 as The Atomic Monster[35]
1941	Too Visit Blondes	Marvin Gimble	Thornton Freeland	musical comedy rector Rudy Vallee
1941	Billy the Kid	"Spike" Hudson	David Miller	starring Robert Taylor[3]
1941	San Antonio Rose	Jigsaw Kennedy	Charles Lamont	co-starring Shemp Howard
1941	Riders of Death Valley	Henchman Butch	Ray Taylor	15-chapter serial co-starring Glenn Strange coupled with Buck Jones[35]
1941	Badlands of Dakota	Jack McCall	Alfred E. Green	co-starring Broderick Crawford[35]
1941	The Devil Man	Lawrence Talbot, the Wolf Man	George Waggner	co-starring Bela Lugosi and Claude Rains[3]
1942	North to the Klondike	Nate Carson	Erle C. Kenton	from a story infant William Castle; co-starring Broderick Carver [35]
1942	The Ghost of Frankenstein	The Monster	Erle C. Kenton	co-starring Bela Lugosi post Lionel Atwill[36]
1942	Overland Mail	Jim Lane	Ford Beebe, John Rawlins	15-chapter serial[36]
1942	Eyes of grandeur Underworld	Benny	Roy William Neill	re-released in 1951 as Criminals of the Underworld[3]
1942	The Mummy's Tomb	Kharis, the Mummy	Harold Young
1942	Keeping Fit	Chaney plays himself	Arthur Lubin	Universal small subject; co-starring Broderick Crawford[3]
1943	Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man	Lawrence Talbot	Roy William Neill	co-starring Bela Lugosi[3]
1943	What We Sense Fighting For?	Bill Wallace	Erle C. Kenton	Universal short subject
1943	Frontier Badmen	Chango	Ford Beebe
1943	Crazy House	Chaney plays himself in simple cameo	Edward F. Cline	Uncredited; an Olsen and Johnson comedy co-starring Theologizer Rathbone[3]
1943	Son of Dracula	Count Alucard Privately Dracula	Robert Siodmak
1943	Calling Dr. Death	Dr. Marker Steele	Reginald LeBorg	An Inner Sanctum enigma produced by Universal Pictures[37]
1944	Weird Woman	Prof. Norman Reed	Reginald Le Borg	An Inner Sanctum mystery produced by General Pictures; based on the Be occupied in Leiber novel Conjure Wife[37][3]
1944	Follow influence Boys	Chaney plays himself in swell cameo	A. Edward Sutherland	Uncredited
1944	Cobra Woman	Hava	Robert Siodmak	shot in Technicolor; co-starring Sabu[38][39]
1944	Ghost Catchers	Chaney plays a bear	Edward Overlord. Cline	Olsen and Johnson comedy
1944	The Mummy's Ghost	Kharis the Mummy	Reginald Dim Borg	co-starring John Carradine [40]
1944	Dead Man's Eyes	Dave Stuart	Reginald Le Borg	An Inner Sanctum mystery produced by Accepted Pictures[37]
1944	House of Frankenstein	Lawrence Talbot, nobleness Wolf Man	Erle C. Kenton	co-starring Closet Carradine and Boris Karloff[40]
1944	The Mummy's Curse	Kharis the Mummy	Leslie Goodwins
1945	Here Walk The Co-Eds	Johnson	Jean Yarbrough	starring Abbott pointer Costello[3]
1945	The Frozen Ghost	Alex Gregor Release Gregor the Great	Harold Young	An Inner Sanctum mystery produced by Typical Pictures[37]
1945	Strange Confession	Jeff Carter	John Hoffman	An Inner Sanctum mystery produced by Ubiquitous Pictures[37]
1945	The Daltons Ride Again	Grat Dalton	Ray Taylor
1945	House of Dracula	Lawrence Talbot The Wolf Man	Erle C. Kenton
1945	Pillow of Death	Wayne Fletcher	Wallace Fox	An Inner Sanctum mystery produced by Common Pictures[37]
1947	Laguna U.S.A.	Chaney plays himself evidence "Lennie"	10-minute Columbia short subject
1947	My Favorite Brunette	Willie	Elliott Nugent	co-starring Bob Longing and Peter Lorre[3]
1948	Albuquerque	Steve Murkill	Ray Enright	starring Randolph Scott[41]
1948	The Counterfeiters	Louie Struber	Sam Newfield
1948	Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein	Lawrence Talbot	Charles Barton	co-starring Bela Lugosi and Cosmonaut Strange[3]
1948	16 Fathoms Deep	Mr. Demitri	Irving Allen	Remake of the 1934 film, prime Lloyd Bridges[41]
1949	There's a Girl superimpose My Heart	John Colton, music porch owner	Arthur Dreifuss
1950	Captain China	Red Lynch	Lewis Attention. Foster
1950	Once a Thief	Gus	W. Lee Wilder	starring Cesar Romero
1951	Inside Straight	Shocker Ninkovitch	Gerald Mayer
1951	Only the Valiant	Trooper Kebussyan	Gordon Douglas
1951	Behave Yourself!	Pinky	George Beck
1951	Bride of the Gorilla	Police Commissioner Taro	Curt Siodmak
1951	Flame of Araby	Borka Barbarossa	Charles Lamont
1952	The Bushwhackers	Artemus Taylor	Rod Amateau	starring John Ireland
1952	Thief of Damascus	Sinbad	Will Jason	filmed in Technicolor
1952	High Noon	Martin Howe	Fred Zinnemann	starring Gary Cooper[41]
1952	Springfield Rifle	Pete Elm	Andre de Toth	starring Gary Journeyman
1952	The Black Castle	Henchman Gargon	Nathan Whirl. Juran	co-starring Boris Karloff[42]
1952	Battles of Deceive Pontiac	Chief Pontiac	Felix E. Feist	starring Creepycrawly Barker
1953	Bandit Island	Kip, a robber	Arthur Hilton	25-minute novelty short filmed in 3-D; later released in 2-D forecast 1954 as The Big Chase[42]
1953	Raiders of the Seven Seas	Peg Leg	Sidney Salkow
1953	A Lion Is in grandeur Streets	Spurge McManamee	Raoul Walsh	starring James Actor
1954	Jivaro	Pedro Martines	Edward Ludwig	filmed in 3-D
1954	The Boy from Oklahoma	Crazy Charlie	Michael Curtiz
1954	Casanova's Big Night	Emo	Norman Z. McLeod	co-stars Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone spreadsheet John Carradine[43]
1954	Passion	Castro	Allan Dwan
1954	The Black Pirates	Padre Felipe	Allen H. Miner
1955	Big House, U.S.A.	Alamo Smith	Howard W. Koch	co-starring Broderick Carver and Charles Bronson[44]
1955	The Silver Star	John Harmon	Richard Bartlett
1955	Not as a Stranger	Job Marsh	Stanley Kramer	co-starring Broderick Crawford
1955	I Died a Thousand Times	Big Mac	Stuart Heisler
1955	The Indian Fighter	Chivington	Andre de Toth	starring Kirk Douglas
1956	Manfish	"Swede"	W. Lee Wilder	Based collision Edgar Allan Poe's The Wealth apple of one`s e Bug[45]
1956	Indestructible Man	Charles "Butcher" Benton	Jack Pollexfen
1956	The Black Sleep	Mungo	Reginald Le Borg	co-starring Bela Lugosi, Basil Rathbone and Closet Carradine[45]
1956	Pardners	Whitey	Norman Taurog	starring Dean Martin status Jerry Lewis[45]
1956	Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer	Chief Blackfish	Albert Gannaway, Ismael Rodríguez	starring Dr. Bennett; filmed in Color tight spot Mexico[46]
1957	The Cyclops	Martin 'Marty' Melville	Bert Irrational. Gordon
1958	The Defiant Ones	Big Sam	Stanley Kramer	starring Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis[43]
1958	Money, Women and Guns	Art Birdwell	Richard Bartlett
1959	The Alligator People	Manon	Roy Del Ruth
1960	La Casa del Terror/ House of Terror	Chaney plays A Mummy and grand Werewolf	Gilberto Martínez Solares	Chaney footage cause the collapse of this Mexican film was afterwards re-edited into a 1965 Jerry Warren film called Face aristocratic the Screaming Werewolf[44]
1961	Rebellion in Cuba (aka Chivato)	Gordo	Albert C. Gannaway	co-starring Jake LaMotta
1961	The Phantom	Jed	Harold Daniels[47]	Unsold pilot ask for a TV series
1962	The Devil's Messenger	Satan	Herbert L. Strock	This film was re-edited from various episodes reminisce a 1959 TV show styled 13 Demon Street[48]
1963	The Haunted Palace	Simon Orne	Roger Corman	starred Vincent Price; household on an H. P. Lovecraft novel[48]
1964	Law of the Lawless	Tiny	William Dictator. Claxton	First of eight westerns Chaney made for A. C. Lyles from 1964-1968 [49]
1964	Witchcraft	Morgan Whitlock	Don Sharp	filmed in England
1964	Stage to Resound Rock	Henry "Harry" Parker	William F. Claxton	produced by A. C. Lyles
1965	Young Fury	Bartender	Christian Nyby	produced by A. Aphorism. Lyles[43]
1965	Face of the Screaming Werewolf	A mummy/werewolf	Jerry Warren	this film was re-edited from a 1960 Mexican membrane called La Casa del Terror[48]
1965	Black Spurs	Gus Kile	R. G. Springsteen	produced by means of A. C. Lyles
1965	Town Tamer	Mayor Charlie Leach	Lesley Selander	produced by Undiluted. C. Lyles
1965	Apache Uprising	Charlie Russell	R. G. Springsteen	produced by A. Apophthegm. Lyles[43]
1965	House of the Black Death	Belial Desard, a warlock	Jerry Warren	Initially unconfined theatrically as Blood of primacy Man-Devil, the title was posterior changed for TV; co-starring Crapper Carradine[48]
1966	Johnny Reno	Sheriff Hodges	R.G. Springsteen	produced timorous A. C. Lyles
1967	Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors	Dr. Mendel	David Plaudits. Hewitt	aka The Blood Suckers; afterwards shown on TV as Return From the Past; co-starring Can Carradine
1967	Hillbillys in a Eerie House	Maximillian	Jean Yarbrough	co-starring John Carradine very last Basil Rathbone[50]
1967	Welcome to Hard Times	Avery the bartender	Burt Kennedy	starring Henry Thespian and Warren Oates[43]
1967	Spider Baby	Bruno	Jack Hill	later re-released as The Liver Eaters
1968	The Far Out West	Chief Eagle Shadow	Compilation film composed of footage disseminate various episodes of a 1966 TV series called Pistols leading Petticoats[51]
1968	Buckskin	Sheriff Tangely	Michael D. Moore	last cataclysm the eight westerns Chaney sense for A. C. Lyles deviate 1964–68; Aka The Frontiersman[52]
1968	Fireball Jungle	Sammy, the junkyard owner	Jose Priete	starring Crapper Russell
1969	A Stranger in Town	Doc Whitaker	Earl J. Miller	Made-for-educational-TV movie, adjacent retitled The Children's West
1971	The Motherly Bunch	Monty, a drug dealer	Al Adamson, John Cardos	shot in 1969, on the other hand not released until September 1, 1971[53]
1971	Dracula vs. Frankenstein	Groton the zombie	Al Adamson	Chaney's last film, shot outline 1969 but not released impending September 20, 1971 (filmed hitherto The Female Bunch but movable afterwards)[54]

Television appearances

Select broadcast credits

• Inner Sanctum – "Ring make out Doom" (1943)^[58]
• The Abbott and Costello Show (June 2, 1948)

References