He was in a Western Law of the Lawless (1963), Face of the Screaming Werewolf (1964), Witchcraft (1964), and Stage to Thunder Rock (1964). He studied makeup at his father's side, learning many of the techniques that had made his father famous.
He was posthumously awarded a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars in Palm Springs, California on January 11, 1999.
Chaney's first horror film, it was successful enough for them to offer him a long-term contract.
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In 1962, Chaney gained a chance to briefly play Quasimodo in a simulacrum of his father's make-up, as well as return to his roles of the Mummy and the Wolf Man on the television series Route 66 with friends Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre.
Many articles and biographies over the years report that Creighton was led to believe his mother had died while he was a boy, and was only made aware she lived after his father's death. [1], He was honored by appearing as the Wolf Man on one of a 1997 series of United States postage stamps depicting movie monsters. At Republic he featured alongside Gene Autry in The Singing Cowboy (1936) and The Old Corral (1937).
Near the end of his life, he made an appearance on "The Tonight Show" with. I am most proud of the name Lon Chaney.
It was not until after his father's death in 1930 that Chaney went to work in films.
More often than not he was the hero's sidekick or the heavy —rarely the one who got the girl. And he took stage roles in stock companies.
Chaney had a screen test for the role of Quasimodo for the remake of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), but the role went to Charles Laughton.
Friends said he had also suffered from liver problems and gout and had recently undergone acupuncture treatments to relieve pain. In one film, in which he changed from a conventional appearance to a wolf man, he was pictured as he lay dying, changing in minutes from the monster to his ordinary guise. He made a second mummy movie, The Mummy's Ghost (1944) and had a support part in Cobra Woman (1944), starring Maria Montez and Ghost Catcher (1944), with Olsen and Johnson. [on his makeup for The Wolf Man (1941)] What gets me is after work when I'm all hot and itchy and tired . Universal kept him in supporting roles for a while: a comedy Too Many Blondes (1941), a musical San Antonio Rose (1941), a serial Riders of Death Valley (1941), the Western Badlands of Dakota (1941) and the "Northern" North to the Klondike (1942). He only officially played the role of Frankenstein's Monster twice: once in. He began with an uncredited bit part in the serial The Galloping Ghost (1931) and signed a contract with RKO who gave him small roles in a number of films, including Girl Crazy (1932), The Roadhouse Murder (1932), Bird of Paradise (1932), and The Most Dangerous Game (1932). Creighton's life changed forever when his father was diagnosed with throat cancer and died on August 26, 1930, at the age of 47. In April 1948 Chaney went to hospital after taking an overdose of sleeping pills.
[15], In 1999, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. Creighton was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory, the son of then-stage performer Lon Chaney and Frances Cleveland Creighton Chaney, a singing stage performer who traveled in road shows across the country with Creighton.