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...
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