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Lon Chaney Jr.

Lon Chaney Jr.

10/02/1906- 12/07/1973
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High Noon

High Noon
8/10
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

The Wolf Man

The Wolf Man
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 12/12/1941
  • Character: Larry Talbot - The Wolf Man
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.

Son of Dracula

Son of Dracula
6.1/10
  • Genre: FantasyHorror
  • Release: 05/11/1943
  • Character: Count Dracula, alias Count Alucard
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.

House of Frankenstein

House of Frankenstein
6.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/12/1944
  • Character: Lawrence Talbot
An evil scientist and a hunchback escape from prison and encounter Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster.

Springfield Rifle

Springfield Rifle
6.6/10
  • Genre: WarWestern
  • Release: 22/10/1952
  • Character: Pete Elm (as Lon Chaney)
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 15/06/1948
  • Character: Larry Talbot/The Wolf Man
Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man.

House of Dracula

House of Dracula
5.7/10
A scientist working on cures for rare afflictions, such as a bone softening agent made from molds to allow him to correct the spinal deformity of his nurse, finds the physical causes of lycanthropy in wolf-man Larry Talbot and of vampirism in Count Dracula, but himself becomes afflicted with homicidal madness while exchanging blood with Dracula.

Black Spurs

Black Spurs
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 28/05/1965
  • Character: Kile
A dissatisfied ranch hand becomes a bounty hunter. He conspires with a crooked town boss to dirty up a neighboring village where a valuable railroad franchise is headed.

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
6.4/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 05/03/1943
  • Character: Lawrence 'Larry' Stewart Talbot, the Wolf Man
Grave robbers open the grave of the wolf man and awaken him. He doesn't like the idea of being immortal and killing people when the moon is full so tries to find Dr. Frankenstein, in the hopes that the doctor can cure him. Dr. Frankenstein has died - however his monster is found.

Johnny Reno

Johnny Reno
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionWestern
  • Release: 09/03/1966
  • Character: Sheriff Hodges (as Lon Chaney)
The townsfolk are set on lynching an accused killer held in the town lockup. But US Marshal Johnny Reno stands in their way.

Jesse James

Jesse James
7/10
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Not as a Stranger

Not as a Stranger
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/07/1955
  • Character: Job Marsh
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.

I Died a Thousand Times

I Died a Thousand Times
6.4/10
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.

Apache Uprising

Apache Uprising
5.7/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 29/12/1965
  • Character: Charlie Russell
Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches.

Jivaro

Jivaro
5.9/10
At Rio Galdez's remote Brazilian trading post live assorted outcast Americans and Europeans, including Jerry Russell, ex-engineer who became obsessed with the Jivaro headhunters' treasure, quit his job, and took up with the bottle and local girl Maroa. But he still gets letters from his nominal fiancée in California, and unexpectedly the shapely, glamorous Alice Parker arrives, expecting to marry a rich planter. Disillusioned, Alice is almost ready to fall into Rio's arms when news comes that Jerry is missing in Jivaro country.

Witchcraft

Witchcraft
6.1/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/03/1964
  • Character: Morgan Whitlock
When her grave is disturbed by modern-day land developers, a 300-year-old witch is accidentally resurrected and terrorizes an English village.

Welcome to Hard Times

Welcome to Hard Times
5.8/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 30/04/1967
  • Character: Avery (as Lon Chaney)
A sociopathic stranger all but destroys a small hardscrabble town but the 'mayor' convinces its survivors to stay and rebuild.

Law of the Lawless

Law of the Lawless
6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 13/05/1964
  • Character: Tiny (as Lon Chaney)
A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.

Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 30/05/1941
  • Character: 'Spike' Hudson
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.

Casanova's Big Night

Casanova's Big Night
6.7/10
Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little suspects what awaits him... Locked into the incongruous role by the desperation of the real Casanova's creditors, Pippo must journey to Venice on a delicate mission far beyond his capabilities.

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