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Birthdate: February 10, 1906
Death date: July 12, 1973
Lon Chaney Jr.
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
2.5724
36
1940s
2.5736
39
1950s
2.2240
38
1960s
2.0932
22
1970s
1.1995
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.4123
2.4123
Lon Chaney Jr. Movie Rankings
1
3.2624On his last day as town Marshall, Will Kane hears a rumor that one of the men he put in jail is on his way to seek his revenge on the lawman. Abandoned by the town's people, Kane is forced to face the gang alone. ...more about High Noon
DVD from $3.99
(16 sellers)
2
3.1383Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they're chained, the two are dependent on one another. ...more about Defiant Ones
DVD from $8.65
(10 sellers)
3
3.0331Upon 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 by Bela, a gypsy who has turned into a werewolf. ...more about Wolf Man
DVD from $12.79
(13 sellers)
4
3.0202
The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein's monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. ...more about Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
DVD from $12.79
(12 sellers)
5
3.0145
An Egyptian high priest (John Carradine) travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.). ...more about Mummy's Ghost
DVD from $9.59
(13 sellers)
6
2.9400
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 age of 10 or so on as they physically develop. ...more about Spider Baby
- Not Available on DVD
7
2.9181
Graverobbers open the grave of the Wolfman and awake him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full, so he tries to find Dr. ...more about Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
DVD from $8.89
(13 sellers)
8
2.9165
Italy, 1757. Meek tailor Pippo Popolino disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance attractive widow Francesca. ...more about Casanova's Big Night
DVD from $3.88
(11 sellers)
9
2.8688
Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office, Ronnie is asked by the irresistible Baroness Montay to find the missing Baron. ...more about My Favorite Brunette
DVD from $1.99
(5 sellers)
10
2.7913
Ygor resurrects Frankenstein's monster and brings him to the original doctor's son, Ludwig, for help. ...more about Ghost of Frankenstein
DVD from $8.89
(13 sellers)
11
2.7594
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. ...more about Cobra Woman
- Not Available on DVD
12
2.7126
A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call, the train pulls away without him on it, and that’s the last his wife sees of him. ...more about Alligator People
DVD from $5.70
(11 sellers)
13
2.7082
A violent criminal called The Butcher is brought back to life by a scientist using electricity. The Butcher becomes an invulnerable mute, and seeks vengeance upon those who caused his execution. ...more about Indestructible Man
DVD from $4.99
(9 sellers)
14
2.6821
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young "morbid" heiress (Katherine Caldwell). Her boyfriend (Frank Stanley) and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world. ...more about Son of Dracula
DVD from $8.89
(14 sellers)
15
2.6344
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). ...more about Bride of the Gorilla
DVD from $4.99
(7 sellers)
16
2.6186
After escaping from an asylum the mad Dr. Niemann (Boris Karloff) and his hunch back assistant (J. Carrol Naish) revive Count Dracula (John Carradine), the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr. ...more about House of Frankenstein
DVD from $8.89
(13 sellers)
17
2.5554
Dracula arrives at Dr. Edelman's office asking for a cure to his vampirism. However, this is a ruse by Dracula to get near Dr. Edelman's beautiful female assistant and turn her into a vampire. ...more about House of Dracula
DVD from $17.27
(12 sellers)
18
2.5258
Judith Fontaine (Regina Carrol) is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out Joanie has become the victim of Groton (Lon Chaney Jr.), an axe-wielding homicidal maniac working for Dr. ...more about Dracula vs. Frankenstein
DVD from $12.14
(4 sellers)
19
2.5183
Nel New England, un gentiluomo (Vincent Price) prende possesso del palazzo di un antenato, da poco ereditato. La gente del posto accoglie con diffidenza il nuovo arrivato, ancora memore delle sventure causate dal predecessore. ...more about Haunted Palace
DVD from $12.99
(2 sellers)
20
2.4930
This classic 1930's serial follows the adventures of SECRET AGENT X-9 (Scott Kolk). His assignment is to recover the crown jewels of Belgravia and to capture it's suspected thief, Blackstone. ...more about Secret Agent X-9
- Not Available on DVD
21
2.4078
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. ...more about North West Mounted Police
- Not Available on DVD
22
2.3621
Tumak, member of the prehistoric Rock tribe, is exiled and makes his way to the more peaceful Shell tribe, where he is taken in and taught manners by the lovely Loana. ...more about One Million B.C.
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.3469
Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of earthquakes, Atlantis. They ride Prof. ...more about Undersea Kingdom
DVD from $5.14
(8 sellers)
24
2.3332
George (Meredith) and half-wit Lenny (Chaney) work on a western ranch during the Great Depression, dreaming of the autonomy of owning and operating their own ranch some day. ...more about Of Mice and Men
DVD from $14.06
(10 sellers)
26
2.2784
The railroads are squeezing farmers off their land. When a railroad agent kills their mother, Frank and Jesse James take up robbing banks and trains. The public regard them as heroes. ...more about Jesse James
DVD from $9.59
(12 sellers)
27
2.2739
A young man (Joel McCrea) falls overboard and is saved by a beautiful Polynesian girl (Dolores Del Rio). They fall in love, but their idyll is smashed when the local volcano begins to erupt. ...more about Bird of Paradise
DVD from $5.00
(5 sellers)
29
2.2099
John Shadwell, a promising politician, is married to Laura but is in love with Vergie Winters, a milliner from his home town. As Shadwell's political career blooms, gossip and rumors begin to cause Vergie to be shunned by the women of the town. ...more about Life of Vergie Winters
- Not Available on DVD
33
2.1629
Colorful bayou peddler Hank Martin marries pretty teacher Verity, who finds that the rural poor all love Hank. Gradually, she realizes that Hank's popularity is the fruit of his expert manipulation of everyone he knows. ...more about Lion Is in the Streets
- Not Available on DVD
35
2.1095
Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary are having an affair, so when Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. ...more about Pillow of Death
DVD from $19.19
(9 sellers)
36
2.1049
An irrigation project in the rural bayous of Louisiana unearths Kharis the living mummy (Lon Chaney Jr.), who was buried in quicksand 25 years earlier. ...more about Mummy's Curse
DVD from $9.59
(13 sellers)
39
2.0547
While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love with marries an exotic native woman. What he doesn't know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to be some kind of supernatural being. ...more about Weird Woman
DVD from $19.19
(9 sellers)
40
2.0468
Since the 17th Century when the Lanier's buried a Whitlock woman alive as a witch and took over the Whitlock estate, the Whitlocks have hungered for revenge. ...more about Witchcraft
- Not Available on DVD
41
2.0273
A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to drive away settlers so that he will can claim a gold deposit as his own. With the help of General Custer, right wins out. ...more about Last Frontier
DVD from $6.06
(6 sellers)
44
1.9816
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. ...more about Calling Dr. Death
DVD from $19.19
(9 sellers)
49
1.9360
An artist (Lon Chaney Jr) is blinded by a jealous assistant/model. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. there's only one hitch. Chaney has to wait until after the man dies. ...more about Dead Man's Eyes
DVD from $19.19
(9 sellers)
50
1.8707
Susan Winter undertakes an expedition to a remote area of Mexico, hoping to find her fiance, Bruce Barton, whos plane-crashed there some time ago. ...more about Cyclops
- Not Available on DVD
51
1.8615
Johnny Hawks, a former Indian fighter, returns to the West after the Civil War. He reacquaints himself with the Indian band led by Red Cloud. Red Cloud's beautiful daughter has now grown into womanhood... ...more about Indian Fighter
DVD from $5.80
(8 sellers)
52
1.8490
Country singers on their way to Nashville have car trouble, forcing them to stop at an old haunted mansion. ...more about Hillbillys in a Haunted House
DVD from $6.97
(6 sellers)
53
1.8433
England, 1872. The night before he is to be hanged for a murder he did not commit, young Dr. Gordon Ramsey is visited in his cell by his old mentor, eminent surgeon Sir Joel Cadmund. ...more about Black Sleep
- Not Available on DVD
54
1.7807
This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Washington D.C. ...more about Ace Drummond
DVD from $5.40
(9 sellers)
55
1.7337
Who knew that an adorable little Welsh terrier could have such dangerous ties? When William "Bill" Denny (Farley Granger) is followed home by a little dog one day, he is totally oblivious to the danger and mayhem he has let himself in for. ...more about Behave Yourself!
DVD from $4.99
(5 sellers)
56
1.6712
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. ...more about Union Pacific
DVD from $19.99
(13 sellers)
57
1.6407
Chan goes to Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I. There he investigates the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy. At the end Charlie preaches to us about the dangers of peace conferences. ...more about Charlie Chan in City in Darkness
- Not Available on DVD
59
1.5693
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 the Union war effort. ...more about Springfield Rifle
DVD from $31.85
(12 sellers)
60
1.5355
In the town of Hard Times, a stranger rides in and terrorizes the small settlement. He kills a number of townsfolk, including Fee, the town's founder. Mayor Will Blue fails to stand up to the man, who rapes saloon whore Molly and burns down the town. ...more about Welcome to Hard Times
- Not Available on DVD
61
1.5250
As the sheriff of a small western town, Autry sings his way into a relationship with Eleanor, a singer from a Chicago nightclub who earlier witnessed a murder. ...more about Old Corral
DVD from $3.42
(7 sellers)
62
0.9099
John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. ...more about Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors
DVD from $7.99
(7 sellers)
63
0.6744
In a mythical, medieval North Africa (looking a lot like California) a Bedouin chief named Tamerlane is seeking to capture the magnificent wild stallion Shazada when he meets tomboyish Princess Tanya of Tunis. ...more about Flame of Araby
- Not Available on DVD
66
Cole Armin (Randolph Scott) comes to Albuquerque to work for his uncle, John Armin (George Cleveland), a despotic and hard-hearted czar who operates an ore-hauling freight line, and whose goal is to eliminate a competing line run by Ted Wallace (Russell ...more about Albuquerque
DVD from $7.85
(9 sellers)
71
In pre-Revolutionary America, the efforts of a Colonial officer trying to broker a peace deal between Indian chief Pontiac and British and American settlers are threatened by the commander of a Hessian mercenary unit who embarks on a campaign of ...more about Battles of Chief Pontiac
DVD from $3.48
(4 sellers)
72
When young Danny Lambert (Peter Votrain) runs away from camp in northern Colorado, he becomes the object of a state-wide-search by his wealthy father Robertson Lambert (Willis Bouchey). ...more about Big House
- Not Available on DVD
75
A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed, in order to divert it to the town the boss owns. ...more about Black Spurs
- Not Available on DVD
76
Tom Brewster, handy with a rope but not a gun, rides into town and mails his lawyer's exam. When his lack of ability with a gun is exposed, the town boss Turlock offers him the job of Sheriff but he refuses. ...more about Boy from Oklahoma
- Not Available on DVD
77
Plot here has Confederate veteran Jeff Waring (John Ireland) arriving in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, and intending never again to use a gun. ...more about Bushwhackers
DVD from $4.99
(5 sellers)
78
Stormy waves in the South China Sea wash a drunken captain, Charles Chinnough, off his ship just before it crashes on a reef. He's then rescued by a passing vessel. ...more about Captain China
- Not Available on DVD
79
Casimiro, night watchman at a wax museum of horrors, is even more sleepy than his usual laziness makes him - because his boss, the Professor, is secretly draining blood from him while he dozes to use in experiments in raising the dead. ...more about The House of Terror
- Not Available on DVD
80
A lawman poses as an outlaw, steals $10,000 from a cattle thief, then promises to return the money if he can join the gang--while finding a way to expose them. ...more about Cheyenne Rides Again
- Not Available on DVD
86
Experimenting in hypnotic regression to past lives, Dr. Edmund Redding of the Cowan Institute in Pasadena has discovered that Ann Taylor is a reincarnated Aztec woman. ...more about Face of the Screaming Werewolf
- Not Available on DVD
87
After a string of bad times with men, Sandy tries to kill herself. Co-waitress Libby saves her and takes her to meet some female friends of hers who live on a ranch in the desert. ...more about Female Bunch
- Not Available on DVD
90
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 actual battle and Earp must do the job alone). ...more about Frontier Marshal
- Not Available on DVD
95
At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters' treasure, quit his job, and took up with the bottle and local girl Maroa. ...more about Jivaro
- Not Available on DVD
96
Two young men (Ameche and Young) try to wrest their father (Collier) from the clutches of a gold digger (Birell) but by mistake think the woman is a young nightclub singer (Simon) with whom they both fall in love. ...more about Josette
- Not Available on DVD
98
Clem Rogers (Dale Robertson), known as "the Hanging Judge" has come to Stone Junction, Kansas in 1889 to preside over the murder trial of Pete Stone (John Agar),son of town ruler "Big Tom" Stone (Barton MacLane). ...more about Law of the Lawless
- Not Available on DVD
99
When a wealthy Indian student endows the college so they can keep the football coach rumor has it the Indian has played professionally and can't be on the team. ...more about Life Begins in College
- Not Available on DVD
100
A group of stuntmen at one studio in Hollywood call themselves "Lucky Devils," and regularly chant "A stuntman makes a bad husband and a husband makes a bad stuntman. ...more about Lucky Devils
- Not Available on DVD
102
G-Man Chick Gardner (Brian Donlevy), posing as a taxi driver, convinces the members of a counterfeiting gang that he is on their side and is taken into the organization by Philip Strickland (Alan Dinehart), the boss, over the objections of gang ...more about Midnight Taxi
- Not Available on DVD
103
Just after making a large gold discovery, an old prospector is ambushed and killed by three masked men but manages to kill two of his attackers before he dies. ...more about Money
- Not Available on DVD