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LON CHANEY JR.

1906-1973. This versatile actor was born Creighton Tull Chaney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma while his parents were on a theatrical tour. The child performed with them onstage beginning at the age of six months. His father was the legendary 'Man of a Thousand Faces' of silent movies. In 1939, now, Lon Chaney Jr., he earned the stage role of Lennie in John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. His extraordinarily touching performance won him the role in the film version that same year. Lon was cast in the 1941 Universal Studios production The Wolfman, and it is this role (in five different movies) for which he is best remembered. Lon's work in other A-pictures High Noon (1952), Not As A Stranger (1955), and The Defiant Ones (1958), deservedly praised, is still eclipsed by his B movie stint with Universal and their great monster movies.

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