Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American actor and makeup artist. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of cinema, renowned for his ...

Quick pop quiz: What do Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, The Wolf Man, and The Mummy all have in common? If you said "Universal Studios," that is indeed one of the things they have in common, as the ...

October is monster movie season. One of the giants of the genre is from Oklahoma. Lon Chaney Jr. was born in Oklahoma City before statehood. Chaney is most famous in the monster-verse for playing the ...

Kenneth Turan is a Times film critic and the author of "Never Coming to a Theater Near You." He is writing a biography of Lon Chaney. Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my accursed ugliness. --”The ...

The rumor in Canal Winchester, Ohio, is that actor Lon Chaney, is related to the O.P. Chaney Grain Elevator family. Lon Chaney was best known for his horror film roles in the 1920s, including The ...

You see it first as a greenish corrugated tin roof hidden in a grove of solid red lodgepole pines. By then, you have hiked three miles, mostly uphill, and are 1,700 feet higher than your starting ...

A sign at the village limits of Carroll, Ohio, says, "Birthplace of Lon Chaney Sr., World Famous Movie Star." I want this to be true. Carroll wants it to be true. Alas, the rest of the world favors ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lon Chaney, Jr. (February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973), born Creighton Tull Chaney, was an American character actor. He was best known for his roles in monster ...