Cast: Lon Chaney Jr.

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Lon Chaney Jr.. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


High Noon

1952 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Gary Cooper · Grace Kelly · Thomas Mitchell · Lloyd Bridges

Plot A killer that Sheriff Will Kane (Gary Cooper) put away has been let out of the prison and now he and his gang of bad guys are coming to the...

8.1

26K votes

8.1

26K votes

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (TV)

2000 · Documentary · 85 min. · United States

Direction Kevin Brownlow

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Orson Welles · Tod Browning

Plot Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the subject of this documentary.

7.2

53 votes

7.2

53 votes

Frontier Marshal

1939 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Allan Dwan

Cast Randolph Scott · Nancy Kelly · Cesar Romero · Binnie Barnes

Plot Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral (e.g., Doc is killed by Curley before the...

7.1

97 votes

7.1

97 votes

The Defiant Ones

1958 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Tony Curtis · Sidney Poitier · Theodore Bikel · Charles McGraw

Plot This 1958 variation on Huck Finn's adventures with Jim finds a white convict (Tony Curtis) chained to a black convict (Sidney Poitier) as they both escape their captors. With each...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Union Pacific

1939 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Joel McCrea · Akim Tamiroff · Robert Preston

Plot This is Cecil B. De Mille's version of the trouble and hardships involved in the building of the famous transcontinental railroad. Jeff Butler is hired to insure that the Union...

6.9

659 votes

6.9

659 votes

Of Mice and Men

1939 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Burgess Meredith · Betty Field · Lon Chaney Jr. · Charles Bickford

Plot George Milton and Lennie Small are migrant workers in the 1930s Depression. Lennie is mentally retarded and George looks after him. While working as hands on a Western ranch, they...

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6.8

276 votes

6.8

276 votes

Not As a Stranger

1955 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Robert Mitchum · Gloria Grahame · Frank Sinatra

Plot Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is...

6.6

667 votes

6.6

667 votes

Springfield Rifle

1952 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Gary Cooper · Phyllis Thaxter · David Brian · Paul Kelly

Plot Major Lex Kearney, dishonorably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, has actually volunteered to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for...

6.5

917 votes

6.5

917 votes

A Lion Is in the Streets

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast James Cagney · Barbara Hale · Anne Francis · Warner Anderson

Plot A charismatic peddler from the bayous finds his true calling in politics. Is he a demagogue in the making?

6.5

286 votes

6.5

286 votes

Big House U.S.A

1955 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Howard W. Koch

Cast Broderick Crawford · Ralph Meeker · Reed Hadley · William Talman

Plot When young Danny Lambert runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the object of a park-wide-search by his wealthy father Robertson Lambert. He is found by Jerry Barker...

6.4

115 votes

6.4

115 votes

Only the Valiant

1951 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Gregory Peck · Barbara Payton · Ward Bond · Gig Young

Plot Capt. Richard Lance (Gregory Peck) is unjustly held responsible, by his men & girlfriend, for an Indian massacre death of beloved Lt. Holloway. Holloway (Gig Young) is killed while escorting...

6.4

307 votes

6.4

307 votes

North West Mounted Police

1940 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Cecil B. DeMille

Cast Gary Cooper · Madeleine Carroll · Paulette Goddard · Preston Foster

Plot In 1885, three mismatched frontiersmen (teacher Riel, whiskey trader Corbeau, and trapper Duroc) foment rebellion in central Canada; only the local Mounties stand in their way. Constable Ronnie Logan loves...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

The Haunted Palace

1963 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Vincent Price · Debra Paget · Frank Maxwell · Lon Chaney Jr.

Plot In the small New England town of Arkham, the townspeople discover Joseph Curwen has taken a local girl and is preparing to use her in blasphemous rituals to interbreed humans...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

The Wolf Man

1941 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction George Waggner

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Claude Rains · Warren William · Ralph Bellamy

Plot Upon the death of his brother, Larry Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with village girl Jenny Williams, who is attacked...

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told

1968 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Jack Hill

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Carol Ohmart · Quinn K. Redeker · Beverly Washburn

Plot In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes them to mentally regress from the...

6.3

410 votes

6.3

410 votes

The Indian Fighter

1955 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction André De Toth

Cast Kirk Douglas · Walter Matthau · Elsa Martinelli · Diana Douglas

Plot A trail guide has to bring two crooked traders to justice to save his wagon train from Indian attack.

6.3

820 votes

6.3

820 votes

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

1948 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Charles Barton

Cast Bud Abbott · Lou Costello · Bela Lugosi · Lon Chaney Jr.

Plot The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey (Costello) and Chick Young (Abbott) is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein's monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

I Died a Thousand Times

1955 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Stuart Heisler

Cast Jack Palance · Shelley Winters · Lori Nelson · Lee Marvin

Plot An ex-con organizes a gang and sets up a diamond heist, but along the way gets involved with one of the female gang members. The burglary is bungled and the...

6.2

168 votes

6.2

168 votes

Calling Dr. Death

1943 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction Reginald Le Borg

Cast Lon Chaney Jr. · Patricia Morison · J. Carrol Naish · David Bruce

Plot Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may...

6.0

68 votes

6.0

68 votes

The Black Castle

1952 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Nathan Juran

Cast Boris Karloff · Lon Chaney Jr. · Richard Greene · Stephen McNally

Plot Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.

6.0

79 votes

6.0

79 votes