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Lon Chaney Jr.

Lon Chaney Jr.


Filmography

Lon Chaney Jr. - filmography


  • The Defiant Ones on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Sidney Poitier,  Tony Curtis,  Charles McGraw
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape from a chain gang. Curtis' character, John Joker Jackson, hates blacks, while Poitier's character, Noah Cullen, hates whites. However, the men are manacled together, forced to rely on each other to survive. Captured at one point by a lynch-happy mob, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 990 members
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  • The Indestructible Man on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Lon Chaney Jr.,  Robert Shayne,  Casey Adams
    Director: Jack Pollexfen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Charles 'Butcher' Benton sits on death row. He tries to send his girlfriend Eva a letter with the location to the $600,00 that he stole during a bank robbery, but his dishonest lawyer intercepts the letter and steals the map to Benton's fortune. Benton vows revenge on Lowe and all his cronies. ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 93 members
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  • The Indian Fighter on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Kirk Douglas,  Walter Matthau,  Diana Douglas
    Director: Andre De Toth
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In Andre de Toth's rough and tumble Western, Kirk Douglas stars as Johnny Hawks, a cocky, brash cowboy notorious as the Indian fighter throughout the Oregon territories. Captain Trask (Walter Abel), commander of the local fort, calls in Hawks due to trouble with the neighboring Sioux tribe, lead by ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 178 members
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  • High Noon on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Gary Cooper,  Grace Kelly,  Thomas Mitchell
    Director: Fred Zinnemann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon with his new Quaker bride, Amy (Grace Kelly). But his happiness is short-lived when he is informed that the Miller gang, whose leader (Ian McDonald) Will had arrested, is due ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 6,391 members
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  • The Bushwackers (1952)
    Starring: Tom Gries,  Lon Chaney Jr.
    Director: Rodney Amateau
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Tired of senseless bloodshed, civil war veteran John Ireland vows never to use a gun again. This proves difficult when Ireland runs afoul of town despot Lon Chaney Jr. It seems that Chaney takes special delight in tormenting the local newspaper editor, who happens to be the father of pretty heroine ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 1 member
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  • Behave Yourself! on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Farley Granger,  Shelley Winters,  William Demarest
    Director: George Beck
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Bill and Kate Denny, a young married couple find themselves on the run after the dog that they adopted is actually a trained crime dog... now the villains want him back...
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 44 members
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  • Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
    Starring: Barbara Payton,  Lon Chaney Jr.,  Raymond Burr
    Director: Curt Siodmak
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
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    Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). However, an old native witch witnesses the crime and puts a curse on Barney, who soon after finds himself turning nightly into a ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 41% from 44 members
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  • My Favourite Brunette on DVD (1947)
    Starring: Reginald Denny,  Ann Doran,  John Hoyt
    Director: Elliott Nugent
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE, a spoof of the hardboiled detective genre. Hope plays a baby photographer who gets mixed up with gangsters after he pretends to be a private detective. Dorothy Lamour costars as the mysterious femme fatale, and horror legends Peter Lorre and Lon Chaney turn in hilariously ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 365 members
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  • Cobra Woman on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Lon Chaney Jr.,  Maria Montez,  Jon Hall
    Director: Robert Siodmak
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Upon discovering his fiancée Tollea has been kidnaped, Ramu and his friend Kado set out for a Pacific isle where all strangers are to be killed on arrival and the inhabitants, who are frequently sacrificed to an angry volcano god, worship the cobra. The island is ruled over by Tollea's evil twin ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 37 members
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  • House of Frankenstein on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Boris Karloff,  Lon Chaney Jr.,  John Carradine
    Director: Erle C. Kenton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann (Boris Karloff), escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a travelling chamber of horrors. Pulling the stake out of a skeleton, he revives the infamous Count Dracula (John Carradine) and commands him to kill the man responsible for his imprisonment. He ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 147 members
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  • The Wolf Man (1941)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  Warren William,  Ralph Bellamy
    Director: George Waggner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Even a man who is pure at heart/And says his prayers by night/May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms/And the moon is full and bright. Upon first hearing these words, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney) dismisses them as childish folderol. After all, this is the 20th Century; how can a human being turn ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 621 members
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  • The Undersea Kingdom (1936)
    Starring: Ray Corrigan,  Lois Wilde,  Monte Blue
    Director: B. Reeves Eason,  Joseph Kane
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    UNDERSEA KINGDOM had Ray 'Crash' Corrigan, crash-helmet and all, diving into the ocean in a fantastic super submarine. Corrigan and his passengers -- Professor Norton (C. Montague Shaw), the professor's young son (Lee Van Atta), brash newspaperwoman Diana Compton (Lois Wilde), and a couple of ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 3 members
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Lon Chaney Jr. facts

5 most recent films

Dracula vs Frankenstein - 2.0 stars
Johnny Reno - 2.0 stars
The Defiant Ones - 3.5 stars
The Indestructible Man - 2.0 stars
The Indian Fighter - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

High Noon - 3.5 stars
Of Mice and Men - 3.5 stars
The Wolf Man - 3.5 stars
The Defiant Ones - 3.5 stars
My Favourite Brunette - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Bushwackers - 0.5 stars
Girl O' My Dreams - 1.5 stars
Behave Yourself! - 2.0 stars
Johnny Reno - 2.0 stars
Bride of the Gorilla - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Charles Arnt - 2 times - show films
Jack Mulhall - 2 times - show films
Tom Conway - 2 times - show films
Peter Lorre - 2 times - show films
Robert Shayne - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Erle C. Kenton - 2 times - show films
George Beck - 2 times - show films
Curt Siodmak - 2 times - show films
Elliott Nugent - 2 times - show films
Lewis Milestone - 2 times - show films