# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lon-chaney-jr
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:59:44.852Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lon-chaney-jr"
name: "Lon Chaney Jr."
slug: "lon-chaney-jr"
description: "Creighton Tull Chaney, known by his stage name Lon Chaney Jr., was an American actor known for playing Larry Talbot in the film The Wolf Man (1941) and its various crossovers, Count Alucard in Son of Dracula, Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), the Mummy in three pictures, and various other roles in many Universal horror films, including six films in their 1940s Inner Sanctum series, making him a horror icon. He also portrayed Lennie Small in Of Mice and Men (1939) and played supporting parts in dozens of mainstream movies, including High Noon (1952), The Defiant Ones (1958), and numerous Westerns, musicals, comedies and dramas."
tagline: "American actor (1906–1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Money%2C_Women_and_Guns_-_09_-_Lon_Chaney_Jr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1906-02-10"
deathDate: "1973-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.799728445349627
  historical:           22.321332
  currentAttention:     26.66515802972015
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0001033"
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    url:       "http://lonchaney.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump