Identité
Genre : homme
Pseudonyme(s) :
- Lon Chaney
- Creighton Chaney
- Creighton Chaney
État civil :
- Creighton Tull Chaney
Fonctions : Acteur
Biographie
Carrière :
Bien moins célèbre que son père, Lon Chaney Jr. se révèle un acteur limité. Son rôle de grande brute stupide dans Of mice and men, Des souris et des hommes (Lewis Milestone, 1939) le sort de l'anonymat. Après une performance convaincante en homme des cavernes dans One million BC , Tumak, fils de la jungle (Hal Roach, 1940), Universal lui propose des rôles de monstres qui font sa réputation et la fortune de la firme. Mordu par Bela Lugosi, il devient à son tour un lycanthrope dans The Wolf Man, Le Loup-garou (George Waggner, 1941). Il se montre à l'aise en Frankenstein, The Ghost of Frankenstein, Le Spectre de Frankenstein , (Erle C. Kenton, 1942), ou en momie (The Mummy's tomb , Henry Young, 1942), un peu moins en Dracula (Son of Dracula, Le Fils de Dracula , Robert Siodmak, 1943). En marge de ce bestiaire, il joue dans d'innombrables westerns de série B. Il trouve quelques bons rôles avec High Noon, Le train sifflera trois fois (Fred Zinneman, 1951) ou Not as a Stranger, Pour que vivent les hommes (Stanley Kramer, 1955).Autres activités :
Lon Chaney Jr. apparait régulirement à la télévision dans les années 1950 et 1960.Filmographie
Courts métrages
Acteur
- 1936 - Prisoners of Atlantis
- 1936 - Arena of Death
- 1936 - Into the Metal Tower
- 1936 - Death in the Air
- 1936 - The Juggernaut Strikes
- 1936 - The Undersea City
- 1936 - Revenge of the Volkites
- 1936 - Flaming Death
- 1936 - Atlantis Destroyed
- 1936 - The Submarine Trap
- 1936 - Ascent to the Upperworld
- 1937 - Cheyenne Rides Again
- 1942 - Keeping Fit
- 1943 - What We Are Fighting for
- 1953 - Bandit Island
Longs métrages
Acteur
- 1931 - The Galloping Ghost
- 1932 - The Bird of Paradise
- 1932 - Girl Crazy
- 1932 - The Black Ghost
- 1932 - The Last Frontier
- 1933 - Scarlet River
- 1933 - Lucky Devils
- 1933 - The Three Musketeers
- 1933 - Son of the border
- 1934 - The Life of Vergie Winters
- 1934 - Sixteen Fathoms Deep
- 1934 - Girl O' My Dreams
- 1935 - Accent on Youth
- 1935 - Hold'em Yale
- 1935 - The Shadow of Silk Lennox
- 1935 - A scream in the night
- 1935 - The Marriage bargain
- 1935 - Captain Hurricane
- 1936 - Rose Bowl
- 1936 - Slave Ship
- 1936 - Love Is News
- 1936 - Killer at large
- 1936 - Life Begins in College
- 1936 - The Singing Cowboy
- 1936 - Ace Drummond
- 1936 - The Old Corral
- 1937 - The Lady Escapes
- 1937 - Love and Hisses
- 1937 - Born Reckless
- 1937 - This Is My Affair
- 1937 - Secret Agent X-9
- 1937 - One Mile from Heaven
- 1937 - Happy Landing
- 1937 - Charlie Chan on Broadway
- 1937 - That I May Live
- 1937 - Thin Ice
- 1937 - Second Honeymoon
- 1937 - Checkers
- 1937 - Wife, Doctor and Nurse
- 1937 - City Girl
- 1937 - Wild and Wooly
- 1937 - Midnight Taxi
- 1937 - Angel's Holiday
- 1938 - Josette
- 1938 - Submarine Patrol
- 1938 - Straight Place and Show
- 1938 - Union Pacific
- 1938 - Alexander's Ragtime Band
- 1938 - Road Demon
- 1938 - Walking down Broadway
- 1938 - Sally, Irène and Mary
- 1938 - Speed to Burn
- 1938 - Mr Moto's Gamble
- 1938 - Passport Husband
- 1939 - Frontier Marshall
- 1939 - Jesse James
- 1939 - Of Mice and Men
- 1939 - Charlie Chan in City in Darkness
- 1940 - North West Mounted Police
- 1940 - One Million BC
- 1940 - Man Made Monster
- 1941 - San Antonio Rose
- 1941 - The Ghost of Frankenstein
- 1941 - Billy the Kid
- 1941 - Badlands of Dakota
- 1941 - The Wolf Man
- 1941 - Too Many Blondes
- 1941 - Riders of Death Valley
- 1942 - Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman
- 1942 - The Mummy's Tomb
- 1942 - Eyes of the underworld
- 1942 - Overland Mail
- 1943 - The Mummy's Ghost
- 1943 - Crazy House
- 1943 - Cobra Woman
- 1943 - Son of Dracula
- 1943 - Frontier Badmen
- 1943 - Calling Dr. Death
- 1943 - Weird Woman
- 1944 - Here Come the Co-eds
- 1944 - House of Frankenstein
- 1944 - Ghost Catchers
- 1944 - Dead Man's Eyes
- 1944 - The Frozen Ghost
- 1944 - The Mummy's Curse
- 1944 - The Mummy's Ghost
- 1945 - House of Dracula
- 1945 - Strange Confession
- 1945 - The Daltons Ride Again
- 1945 - Pillow of Death
- 1947 - My Favorite Brunette
- 1947 - The Counterfeiters
- 1948 - Albuquerque
- 1948 - Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- 1948 - Sixteen Fathoms Deep
- 1949 - Once a Thief
- 1949 - There's a Girl in My Heart
- 1949 - Captain China
- 1950 - Only the Valiant
- 1951 - Flame of Araby
- 1951 - High Noon
- 1951 - The Bushwhackers
- 1951 - Behave Yourself!
- 1951 - Inside Straight
- 1951 - Bride of the Gorilla
- 1952 - Springfield Rifle
- 1952 - Thief of Damascus
- 1952 - Raiders of the Seven Seas
- 1952 - Battles of Chief Pontiac
- 1953 - The Boy from Oklahoma
- 1953 - A Lion Is in the Streets
- 1953 - Casanova's Big Night
- 1953 - Jivaro
- 1954 - The Big chase
- 1954 - Indestructible Man
- 1954 - The Black Pirates
- 1954 - Passion
- 1955 - I Died a Thousand Times
- 1955 - Manfish
- 1955 - Not As a Stranger
- 1955 - Pardners
- 1955 - Daniel Boone, trail blazer
- 1955 - Big house, U.S.A.
- 1955 - The Silver Star
- 1955 - The Indian Fighter
- 1956 - The Black Sleep
- 1957 - The Cyclops
- 1958 - Money, Women and Guns
- 1959 - The Alligator People
- 1960 - La Casa del terror
- 1960 - Rebellion in Cuba
- 1961 - The Devil's Messenger
- 1963 - The Haunted Palace
- 1963 - Law of the Lawless
- 1964 - Black Spurs
- 1964 - Stage to Thunder Rock
- 1964 - Young fury
- 1964 - Spider Baby or the Maddest Story Ever Told
- 1964 - Face of the Screaming Werewolf
- 1964 - Witchcraft
- 1965 - Apache Uprising
- 1965 - Johnny Reno
- 1965 - Town Tamer
- 1965 - House of the Black Death
- 1966 - Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
- 1966 - Welcome to Hard Times
- 1967 - Buckskin
- 1967 - Hillbillys in a Haunted House
- 1968 - Fireball Jungle
- 1969 - The Female Bunch
- 1969 - A Stranger in Town
- 1969 - Dracula vs. Frankenstein
Bibliographie éditoriale
- Ouvrage : Lon Chaney, Jr. : horror film star, 1906-1973 / Don G. Smith. - Jefferson, North Carolina ; London : McFarland, 1996.
- Périodique : Classic Images n°316, octobre 2001. "Lon Chaney Jr. and Sr. unmasked: an interview with Ron Chaney" / Laura Waskin
- Périodique : Classic Images n°329, novembre 2002. "Lon Chaney, Jr.: gentle monster" / Neil Doyle.
- Périodique : Classic Images n°352, octobre 2004. "Karloff, Lanchester & Chaney, Jr. at the castle of Frankensteins" / Burns, Bob
- Périodique : Films in Review, vol 24 n° 9, novembre 1973
- Périodique : Lon Chaney Jr.
- Site Internet : Interview du producteur Herman Cohen
- Site Internet : The Official Chaney Website