Heavy-set character actor, mostly in horror films or westerns whose most famous role was as "The Wolf Man"... (Learn more)
Top Projects: Of Mice and Men, The Haunted Palace, One Million B.C. (View All)
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Lon Chaney Jr’s Milestones
| Joined stock companies in the Middle West and played bit parts in film as Creighton Chaney | |
| Made first stage appearance at age of six months | |
| Worked as butcher boy, boilermaker, plumber and fruit picker before begining his acting career | |
| 1932 | Film debut in serial, "The Last Frontier" and feature, "Girl Crazy" |
| 1935 | First billed as Lon Chaney, Jr. |
| 1939 | Major film breakthrough when he recreated his stage role of Lennie in a fine screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" |
| 1941 | First starring roles in horror films, "Man Made Monster" and "The Wolf Man"; the latter marked the first of several times he played the cursed Lawrence Talbot |
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