Lon Chaney Jr. Net Worth
Lon Chaney Jr. Net Worth is
$500,000
Lon Chaney Jr. Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Lon Chaney, Jr. (February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973), born Creighton Tull Chaney, son of the iconic silent film actor Lon Chaney, was an American actor known for playing the titular role in the 1941 film The Wolf Man and its various crossovers, as well as portraying other monsters such as The Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster, and Count Alucard (son of Dracula) in numerous horror films produced by Universal Studios. He also portrayed Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men (1939). Originally referenced in films as Creighton Chaney, he was later credited as "Lon Chaney, Jr." in 1935, and after 1941's Man Made Monster, beginning as early as The Wolf Man later that same year, he was almost always billed under his more famous father's name as Lon Chaney. Chaney had English, French and Irish ancestry, and his career in movies and television spanned four decades, from 1931 to 1971. | Full Name | Lon Chaney Jr. |
| Date Of Birth | February 10, 1906, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States |
| Died | July 12, 1973, San Clemente, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA |
| Height | 6' 2" (1.88 m) |
| Profession | Actor, Soundtrack |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Patsy Beck, Dorothy Hinckley |
| Children | Lon Ralph Chaney, Ronald Creighton Chaney |
| Parents | Frances Cleveland Creighton Chaney, Lon Chaney |
| Movies | The Wolf Man, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Son of Dracula, House of Dracula, The Ghost of Frankenstein, High Noon, The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost, Spider Baby, The Mummy's Curse, Of Mice and Men, The Def... |
| TV Shows | Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans, 13 Demon Street |
| Star Sign | Aquarius |
| # | Trademark |
|---|---|
| 1 | Was a friendly person, despite playing many villains in horror movies |
| 2 | Friendly teddy bear face |
| 3 | Frequently portrayed father figures, particularly in his later years |
| 4 | His large, bearlike build |
| 5 | Heavy eyebrows |
| 6 | Often played the average, everyday man |
| 7 | Often played sympathetic characters |
| 8 | Often played tormented characters |
| 9 | Often played hulking monsters or victims of mad scientists |
| 10 | Deep baritone voice |
| Title | Salary |
|---|---|
| Gallery of Horror (1967) | $1,500 |
| The Last Frontier (1932) | $200 @week |
| Bird of Paradise (1932) | $200 @week |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | The trouble with most of the monster pictures today is that they go after horror for horror's sake. There's no motivation for how monsters behave. There's too much of that science-fiction baloney. |
| 2 | All the best of the monsters played for sympathy. That goes for my father, [Lon Chaney], myself and all the others. They all won the audience's sympathy. The Wolf Man didn't want to do all those bad things. He was forced into them. |
| 3 | Nothing is more natural to me than horror. |
| 4 | I am most proud of the name Lon Chaney. I am not proud of Lon Chaney Jr., because they had to starve me to make me take this name. |
| 5 | My father would be horrified if he knew I was making it in the pictures and that I'm not billed as Creighton Chaney. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Battled throat cancer and heart disease in later years. |
| 2 | He appeared with John Carradine in eleven films: This Is My Affair (1937), Jesse James (1939), Frontier Marshal (1939), House of Frankenstein (1944), The Mummy's Ghost (1944), House of Dracula (1945), Casanova's Big Night (1954), The Black Sleep (1956), House of the Black Death (1965), Gallery of Horror (1967) and Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967). |
| 3 | He appeared with Bela Lugosi in five films: The Wolf Man (1941), The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) and The Black Sleep (1956). |
| 4 | He has two roles in common with Bela Lugosi: (1) Lugosi played Count Dracula in Dracula (1931) and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) while Chaney played him in Son of Dracula (1943) and (2) Chaney played Frankenstein's Monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), in which Lugosi also appeared, while Lugosi played him in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), in which Chaney also appeared. |
| 5 | He has three roles in common with Christopher Lee: (1) Chaney played Frankenstein's Monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) while Lee played him in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), (2) Chaney played Kharis the Mummy in The Mummy's Tomb (1942), The Mummy's Ghost (1944) and The Mummy's Curse (1944) while Lee played him in The Mummy (1959) and (3) Chaney played Count Dracula in Son of Dracula (1943) while Lee played him in ten films from Horror of Dracula (1958) to Dracula and Son (1976). |
| 6 | He was posthumously awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on January 11, 1999. |
| 7 | He made headlines in the 1960s when he criticized "Fractured Flickers" for desecrating old film classics like his father's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923). |
| 8 | His scheduled ten-day tour on behalf of Bride of the Gorilla (1951) spiraled to 4-1/2 months and covered 4500 miles. |
| 9 | Like his father, Chaney created his own make-up for the role of Akhoba in One Million B.C. (1940), but union regulations forced him to abandon it. |
| 10 | He wanted to reprise his father's 1923 role of Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and underwent a screen test for the 1939 version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), but the role went to Charles Laughton. Chaney did recreate it in an episode of the television series Route 66 (1960). |
| 11 | When Broderick Crawford left the stage production of "Of Mice and Men", Chaney was eager to play the role. He credits the kindness of Wallace Ford, the original "George", for getting him the role, which, of course, led to the 1939 screen version (Of Mice and Men (1939)) and eventual stardom. |
| 12 | Often he would accompany his father Lon Chaney to the studio and wait for the trolley on a bench at the corner of Hollywood and Vine. After the bench was removed years later, a special memorial to his father replaced it. |
| 13 | Fay Wray and Joel McCrea were classmates of his at Hollywood High School. |
| 14 | The six-foot-tall Chaney wanted to play football in Hollywood High School but was turned down because he only weighed 125 pounds. |
| 15 | Grandfather of Ron Chaney. |
| 16 | His last film might have been in Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972). In "Conversations With Woody Allen" by Eric Lax, Allen recalls feeling like a fan, "sitting across from the Wolf Man!" as he interviewed Chaney for a role. Chaney did not appear in the final cut, and died the year after it was released. |
| 17 | He only officially played the role of Frankenstein's Monster twice: once in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) and then again in an episode of the television series Tales of Tomorrow (1951). It wasn't until 1957 when the 1931 version of Frankenstein (1931) staring Boris Karloff would debut on television. Also in 1957, Christopher Lee would assume the role of the monster in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). Chaney played the role "unofficially" twice for Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) in which he stood in for Glenn Strange for one scene while Strange recovered from a broken ankle, and for an episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) where, in a mock-opera sketch, Chaney appears (for some reason) in full monster regalia and dances a Charleston with Lou Costello, then hangs around for the finale. Shortly before his death, Chaney complained in an interview that the serious horror film genre had been ruined by Abbott and Costello. |
| 18 | Was an avid hunter/outdoorsman. |
| 19 | Was mentioned in Warren Zevon's classic song "Werewolves of London". |
| 20 | In 1930, he lived at 735 North Laurel Avenue, Los Angeles, while working as an advertising manager for a water-heater company. |
| 21 | He was born prematurely, only 2-1/2 pounds at birth. The illnesses he suffered at the end of his life may have been partially the result of this. In fact, he was born, in his own words, "black and dead". His father took him outside to an ice-covered lake, broke the ice and put him into the ice-cold water to jump-start his breathing. However, according to his son Lon Ralph Chaney as well as Cleva's daughter by her second marriage, Stella George, the story is complete fiction. |
| 22 | Was possibly not as tall as is often reported. According to Calvin Thomas Beck in "Heroes of the Horrors" (Macmillan, 1975), Chaney wore special shoes in Of Mice and Men (1939) to increase his height by six inches. Beck writes, "In reality, he was just six feet tall." According to Beck, Chaney said that "from that film on, people thought I was much taller" (Beck, p. 235). Early publicity accounts from the 1930s describe Chaney as a strapping six-footer. In Gregory W. Mank's books, Chaney is described as being 6'2" (though Mank reproduces press material for The Wolf Man (1941) which describes Chaney as being five inches taller than Claude Rains, who was 5'7"). |
| 23 | Like his father, he often refused requests for autographs, though when he did sign he usually wrote "Luck, Lon Chaney", using a very large "L" as the first letter for both "Luck" and "Lon". |
| 24 | His favorite role was that of Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men (1939). After a few drinks at parties, he would recite scenes from that film. |
| 25 | His father told him he was too tall for a successful career in film. |
| 26 | Had two sons with his wife Dorothy Hinckley: Lon Ralph (born July 3, 1928) and Ronald Creighton (born March 18, 1930). |
| 27 | From his father, he developed skills as a makeup artist. He was not able to make much use of these skills due to strict union rules. |
| 28 | Well-known character actor William Smith started out as a child actor, and in an interview with a horror-film magazine stated that during breaks on the set of The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), Chaney treated all of the children on the set to ice cream. |
| 29 | Broderick Crawford, who had played Chaney's role of Lennie in "Of Mice and Men" on Broadway in 1937, worked with Chaney at one time and shared a dressing room with him. Apparently, both men were such heavy drinkers that they would get drunk together and take turns beating each other up. |
| 30 | Pictured on one of a set of five 32¢ US commemorative postage stamps, issued 30 September 1997, celebrating "Famous Movie Monsters". He is shown as the title character in The Wolf Man (1941). Other actors honored in this set of stamps, and the classic monsters they portray, are Lon Chaney as The Phantom of the Opera (1925); Bela Lugosi as Dracula (1931); and Boris Karloff on two stamps as The Mummy (1932) and the monster in Frankenstein (1931). |
| 31 | He was the only person to have played all four of the classic movie monsters: The Wolf Man (1941) (Larry Talbot/The Wolf Man); The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) (Frankenstein's Monster); The Mummy's Tomb (1942) (Kharis, the mummy); Son of Dracula (1943) (Count Anthony Alucard, Dracula's son). |
| 32 | Attempted an early career as a songwriter. |
| 33 | His career suffered in his later years due to alcoholism. |
| 34 | Son of Lon Chaney. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dracula vs. Frankenstein | 1971 | Groton (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Female Bunch | 1971 | Monti | |
| A Stranger in Town | 1969 | Doc Whitaker | |
| Fireball Jungle | 1968 | Sammy (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Buckskin | 1968 | Sheriff Tangley (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told | 1967 | Bruno (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Hillbillys in a Haunted House | 1967 | Maximillian (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Welcome to Hard Times | 1967 | Avery (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Pistols 'n' Petticoats | 1966-1967 | TV Series | Chief Eagle Shadow |
| Gallery of Horror | 1967 | Dr. Mendell (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Monkees | 1966 | TV Series | Lenny |
| Johnny Reno | 1966 | Sheriff Hodges (as Lon Chaney) | |
| House of the Black Death | 1965 | Belial Desard (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Apache Uprising | 1965 | Charlie Russell (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Town Tamer | 1965 | Mayor Charlie Leach (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Black Spurs | 1965 | Gus Kile (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Face of the Screaming Werewolf | 1964 | The Mummified Werewolf (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Young Fury | 1964 | Bartender, Ace (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Stage to Thunder Rock | 1964 | Henry Parker (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Witchcraft | 1964 | Morgan Whitlock (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Law of the Lawless | 1964 | Tiny (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Route 66 | 1961-1963 | TV Series | Poppa Duplessis / Lon Chaney / Colby |
| The Haunted Palace | 1963 | Simon Orne (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Empire | 1963 | TV Series | Bart Howe |
| Have Gun - Will Travel | 1959-1963 | TV Series | O'Connor / William Ceilbleu / Billy Blue Sky |
| Rawhide | 1959-1963 | TV Series | Rock / Jesse Childress |
| Lawman | 1962 | TV Series | Jess Bridges |
| The Rifleman | 1962 | TV Series | Charlie Gordo |
| The Devil's Messenger | 1961 | Satan (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Phantom | 1961 | TV Movie | Jed (as Lon Chaney) |
| Surfside 6 | 1961 | TV Series | Tank Grosch |
| Rebellion in Cuba | 1961 | Gordo (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Wagon Train | 1960-1961 | TV Series | Carstairs / Louis Roque |
| The Deputy | 1961 | TV Series | Tom Arnold |
| Zane Grey Theater | 1961 | TV Series | Michael Peters |
| Klondike | 1961 | TV Series | Sergeant Macfin |
| Stagecoach West | 1961 | TV Series | Ben Wait |
| Bat Masterson | 1960 | TV Series | Rance Fletcher |
| Lock Up | 1960 | TV Series | Sheriff Jeremy Davies |
| La casa del terror | 1960 | La Momia / El Hombre Lobo (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Johnny Ringo | 1960 | TV Series | Ben Rafferty |
| Wanted: Dead or Alive | 1959 | TV Series | Sheriff Lon Paulson |
| Adventures in Paradise | 1959 | TV Series | Trader One Arm |
| Border Patrol | 1959 | TV Series | Racketeer |
| The Alligator People | 1959 | Manon (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Texan | 1959 | TV Series | Wylie Ames |
| General Electric Theater | 1959 | TV Series | Bucknell |
| The Red Skelton Hour | 1954-1959 | TV Series | Ug - Prehistoric Cave Man / Sgt. Williams / Sarge / ... |
| The Rough Riders | 1959 | TV Series | Ben 'Pa' Hawkins |
| 13 Demon Street | 1959 | TV Series | Host |
| Money, Women and Guns | 1958 | Art Birdwell (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Target | 1958 | TV Series | |
| Tombstone Territory | 1958 | TV Series | Ex-Marshal Daggett |
| The Defiant Ones | 1958 | Big Sam (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans | 1957 | TV Series | Chingachgook |
| Climax! | 1954-1957 | TV Series | Old Man Hawley / Frank Wiggins / Old Man Pritchel |
| The Cyclops | 1957 | Martin 'Marty' Melville (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Studio 57 | 1956 | TV Series | Jubal Pickett |
| Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer | 1956 | Blackfish (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Pardners | 1956 | Whitey (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Black Sleep | 1956 | Mungo (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Telephone Time | 1956 | TV Series | Jules Samenian |
| Indestructible Man | 1956 | Charles 'Butcher' Benton (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Manfish | 1956 | 'Swede' (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Indian Fighter | 1955 | Chivington (as Lon Chaney) | |
| I Died a Thousand Times | 1955 | Big Mac (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Not as a Stranger | 1955 | Job Marsh (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Cavalcade of America | 1954-1955 | TV Series | Zeke Wells / Old Jeff Harris |
| The Silver Star | 1955 | John W. Harmon (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Big House, U.S.A. | 1955 | Alamo Smith (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Black Pirates | 1954 | Padre Felipe (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Whistler | 1954 | TV Series | Carl |
| Passion | 1954 | Castro (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Big Chase | 1954 | Kip (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Casanova's Big Night | 1954 | Emo the Murderer (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Boy from Oklahoma | 1954 | Crazy Charlie (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Jivaro | 1954 | Pedro Martines (as Lon Chaney) | |
| A Lion Is in the Streets | 1953 | Spurge McManamee (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Raiders of the Seven Seas | 1953 | Peg Leg (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Bandit Island | 1953 | Short | Kip |
| The Black Castle | 1952 | Gargon (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Battles of Chief Pontiac | 1952 | Chief Pontiac (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Springfield Rifle | 1952 | Pete Elm (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Schlitz Playhouse | 1952 | TV Series | |
| High Noon | 1952 | Martin Howe (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Thief of Damascus | 1952 | Sinbad (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Tales of Tomorrow | 1952 | TV Series | The Monster |
| Flame of Araby | 1951 | Borka Barbarossa (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Cosmopolitan Theatre | 1951 | TV Series | |
| Bride of the Gorilla | 1951 | Police Commissioner Taro (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Bushwhackers | 1951 | Artemus Taylor (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Behave Yourself! | 1951 | Pinky (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Only the Valiant | 1951 | Trooper Kebussyan (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Colgate Comedy Hour | 1951 | TV Series | Frankenstein Monster |
| Inside Straight | 1951 | Shocker / Schockovitz Ninkovitch (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Once a Thief | 1950 | Gus (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Captain China | 1950 | Red Lynch (as Lon Chaney) | |
| There's a Girl in My Heart | 1949 | Johnny Colton (as Lon Chaney) | |
| 16 Fathoms Deep | 1948 | Mr. Demitri (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein | 1948 | Lawrence Talbot (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Counterfeiters | 1948 | Louie Struber (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Albuquerque | 1948 | Steve Murkill (as Lon Chaney) | |
| My Favorite Brunette | 1947 | Willie (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Pillow of Death | 1945 | Wayne Fletcher (as Lon Chaney) | |
| House of Dracula | 1945 | Lawrence Talbot The Wolf Man (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Daltons Ride Again | 1945 | Grat Dalton (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Strange Confession | 1945 | Jeff (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Frozen Ghost | 1945 | Alex Gregor Gregor the Great (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Here Come the Co-eds | 1945 | Johnson (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Mummy's Curse | 1944 | Mummy (as Lon Chaney) | |
| House of Frankenstein | 1944 | Larry Talbot (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Dead Man's Eyes | 1944 | Dave Stuart (as Lon Chaney) | |
| The Mummy's Ghost | 1944 | Kharis (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Ghost Catchers | 1944 | Bear (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Cobra Woman | 1944 | Hava (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Follow the Boys | 1944 | Lon Chaney Jr. (uncredited) | |
| Weird Woman | 1944 | Norman Reed (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Calling Dr. Death | 1943 | Doctor Steele (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Son of Dracula | 1943 | Count Dracula (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Crazy House | 1943 | Lon Chaney Jr. (uncredited) | |
| Frontier Badmen | 1943 | Chango (as Lon Chaney) | |
| What We Are Fighting For | 1943 | Short | Bill Wallace (as Lon Chaney) |
| Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man | 1943 | The Wolf Man (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Keeping Fit | 1942 | Short | Lon - Factory Worker |
| The Mummy's Tomb | 1942 | The Mummy (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Eyes of the Underworld | 1942 | Benny (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Overland Mail | 1942 | Jim Lane | |
| The Ghost of Frankenstein | 1942 | The Monster (as Lon Chaney) | |
| North to the Klondike | 1942 | Nate Carson | |
| The Wolf Man | 1941 | The Wolf Man (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Badlands of Dakota | 1941 | Jack McCall | |
| Riders of Death Valley | 1941 | Henchman Butch | |
| San Antonio Rose | 1941 | Jigsaw Kennedy | |
| Billy the Kid | 1941 | 'Spike' Hudson | |
| Too Many Blondes | 1941 | Marvin Gimble | |
| Man Made Monster | 1941 | 'Dynamo' Dan McCormick | |
| North West Mounted Police | 1940 | Shorty | |
| One Million B.C. | 1940 | Akhoba | |
| Of Mice and Men | 1939 | Lennie Small | |
| City in Darkness | 1939 | Pierre | |
| Frontier Marshal | 1939 | Pringle | |
| Union Pacific | 1939 | Dollarhide | |
| Jesse James | 1939 | One Of James Gang | |
| Road Demon | 1938 | Bud Casey | |
| Submarine Patrol | 1938 | Marine Sentry (uncredited) | |
| Straight Place and Show | 1938 | Martin (uncredited) | |
| Passport Husband | 1938 | Bull | |
| Speed to Burn | 1938 | Racetrack Mug | |
| Josette | 1938 | Boatman | |
| Alexander's Ragtime Band | 1938 | Photographer on Stage (uncredited) | |
| Mr. Moto's Gamble | 1938 | Joey | |
| Walking Down Broadway | 1938 | Delivery Man (uncredited) | |
| Sally, Irene and Mary | 1938 | Policeman (uncredited) | |
| Happy Landing | 1938 | Newspaper Reporter (uncredited) | |
| City Girl | 1938 | Gangster (uncredited) | |
| Love and Hisses | 1937 | Attendant (uncredited) | |
| Checkers | 1937 | Man at Racetrack (uncredited) | |
| Second Honeymoon | 1937 | Reporter (uncredited) | |
| Life Begins at College | 1937 | Gilks | |
| Charlie Chan on Broadway | 1937 | Desk Reporter (uncredited) | |
| Wife, Doctor and Nurse | 1937 | Chauffeur | |
| One Mile from Heaven | 1937 | Policeman (uncredited) | |
| The Lady Escapes | 1937 | Reporter (uncredited) | |
| Wild and Woolly | 1937 | Dutch | |
| Born Reckless | 1937 | Garage Mechanic (uncredited) | |
| Slave Ship | 1937 | Laborer Killed at Launching (uncredited) | |
| Angel's Holiday | 1937 | Eddie | |
| This Is My Affair | 1937 | Federal Agent in Baltimore Bank (uncredited) | |
| That I May Live | 1937 | Engineer (uncredited) | |
| Secret Agent X-9 | 1937 | Maroni (primary henchman) | |
| Midnight Taxi | 1937 | Detective Erickson | |
| Thin Ice | 1937 | American Reporter (uncredited) | |
| Love Is News | 1937 | Newsman (unconfirmed, uncredited) | |
| Cheyenne Rides Again | 1937 | Girard | |
| The Old Corral | 1936 | Garland - Simms partner | |
| Rose Bowl | 1936 | Sierra Football Player (uncredited) | |
| Killer at Large | 1936 | Second Coffin Man (uncredited) | |
| Ace Drummond | 1936 | Henchman Ivan | |
| Undersea Kingdom | 1936 | Capt. Hakur | |
| The Singing Cowboy | 1936 | Martin | |
| A Scream in the Night | 1935 | Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain | |
| The Shadow of Silk Lennox | 1935 | John Arthur 'Silk' Lennox | |
| Accent on Youth | 1935 | Chuck | |
| Hold 'Em Yale | 1935 | Yale Football Player (uncredited) | |
| Captain Hurricane | 1935 | Dave (uncredited) | |
| The Marriage Bargain | 1935 | Bob Gordon (as Creighton Chaney) | |
| Girl O' My Dreams | 1934 | Don Cooper (as Creighton Chaney) | |
| The Life of Vergie Winters | 1934 | Hugo McQueen (as Creighton Chaney) | |
| Sixteen Fathoms Deep | 1934 | Joe Bethel (as Creighton Chaney) | |
| Son of the Border | 1933 | Jack Breen (as Creighton Chaney) | |
| The Three Musketeers | 1933 | Armand Corday [Chs. 1, 10] (as Creighton Chaney) | |
| Scarlet River | 1933 | Jeff Todd (as Creighton Chaney) | |
| Lucky Devils | 1933 | Frankie Wilde (as Creighton Chaney) | |
| The Last Frontier | 1932 | Tom Kirby, aka The Black Ghost (as Creighton Chaney) | |
| Bird of Paradise | 1932 | Thornton (as Creighton Chaney) | |
| The Galloping Ghost | 1931 | Henchman (uncredited) | |
| The Trap | 1922 | Hands of a Boy (uncredited) |
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told | 1967 | performer: "Spider Baby Theme" - uncredited | |
| Frontier Marshal | 1939 | performer: "Turkey in the Straw" - uncredited |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Joey Bishop Show | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1969 | TV Series | Himself |
| Here's Hollywood | 1962 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Red Skelton Hour | 1953 | TV Series | Himself |
| Versatile Varieties | 1950 | TV Series | Himself |
| You Asked for It | 1950 | TV Series | Himself |
| Texaco Star Theatre | 1950 | TV Series | Himself - Actor |
| The Ed Sullivan Show | 1948 | TV Series | Himself |
| Screen Snapshots: Laguna U.S.A. | 1947 | Short | Himself (uncredited) |
Archive Footage
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Sandlot | 1993 | Larry Talbot | |
| The Making of 'High Noon' | 1992 | Video short documentary | Martin Howe (uncredited) |
| Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America | 1992 | The Wolf Man (uncredited) | |
| Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook | 1991 | Documentary | Lawrence Talbot The Monster |
| Hooray for Horrorwood | 1991 | Video documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Milton Berle, the Second Time Around: Carnival of Comedy | 1989 | Video | |
| Horrible Horror | 1986 | Video | Clips from various movies |
| Into the Night | 1985 | The Wolfman | |
| Coming Soon | 1982 | Video documentary | edited from 'THe Wolfman' (uncredited) |
| Years of Lightning | 1981 | TV Series documentary | Chingachgook |
| The Horror Show | 1979 | TV Movie documentary | |
| The Far Out West | 1967 | Chief Eagle Shadow (as Lon Chaney) | |
| Sharad of Atlantis | 1966 | TV Movie | Hakur |
| The Mummy's Ghost | 1966 | Short | Kharis, the mummy |
| The Wolfman | 1966 | Short | Larry Talbot |
| The Long Rifle and the Tomahawk | 1964 | Chingachcook | |
| Valley of the Dragons | 1961 | Patoo (edited from 'One Million B.C.') (uncredited) | |
| Along the Mohawk Trail | 1957 | Chingachgook | |
| The Pathfinder and the Mohican | 1957 | Chingachgook | |
| The Redmen and the Renegades | 1957 | Chingachgook | |
| The Indian Raiders | 1956 | Short | Jim Lane |
| Fun on the Run | 1949 | Short | Burly Gambler |
| Kitchen Mechanics | 1949 | Short | Their Supervisor |
| Oysters and Muscles | 1948 | Short | Strangler Johnson, wrestler |
| Desert Command | 1946 | Lt. Armand Corday (as Creighton Chaney) | |
| The Black Ghost | 1932 | Tom Kirby, alias 'The Black Ghost' (as Creighton Chaney) | |
| Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks | 2014-2015 | TV Series documentary | Morgan Whitlock / Bruno |
| Welcome to the Basement | 2014 | TV Series | Laurence Talbot |
| Tim May Presents Reptile | 2014 | Video | Count Dracula Frankenstein Monster |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | 2007-2014 | TV Series documentary | Kharis, the Mummy Lawrence Talbot The Wolf Man ... |
| Svengoolie | 2012 | TV Series | |
| A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss | 2010 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Larry Talbot The Wolf Man |
| Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | 2010 | Video documentary | Himself (uncredited) |
| Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney Jr. | 2010 | Video documentary short | Various Roles |
| Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
| Terror in the Pharaoh's Tomb | 2007 | Video | Hassan |
| Terror in the Tropics | 2006 | Video | Lyle Talbot |
| Evil Deeds | 2004 | Video | David Kessler (segment "Hell Beast) (Recut version only") |
| Van Helsing: Behind the Screams | 2004 | Video documentary short | |
| The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster | 2002 | Video documentary | The Wolfman (uncredited) |
| History's Mysteries | 2002 | TV Series documentary | The Wolf Man |
| Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The American Nightmare | 2000 | Documentary | Himself |
| Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man' | 1999 | Video documentary short | Larry Talbot The Wolf Man |
| Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed | 1999 | Video documentary short | Kharis |
| Film Breaks | 1999 | TV Series documentary | The Monster |
| Universal Horror | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | |
| 100 Years of Horror | 1996 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Biography | 1995 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | 1994 | TV Movie documentary | The Frankenstein Monster |
Known for movies
High Noon (1952)
as Martin Howe
The Defiant Ones (1958)
as Big Sam
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957)
as Chingachgook
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
as Lawrence Talbot