(1958), and numerous Westerns, musicals, comedies and dramas.

Originally referred to in films as Creighton Chaney, he was later credited as "Lon Chaney, Jr." in 1935. After Man Made Monster (1941), beginning as early as The Wolf Man later that same year, the studio insisted that he would almost always be billed under the name of his more famous father, the deceased cinema giant Lon Chaney. Chaney had English, French, and Irish ancestry. His career in