Lon Chaney Jr. Overview

Biography

Lon Chaney Jr. was born Creighton Tull Chaney on Feb. 10, 1906 in Oklahoma City in what was then Oklahoma Territory. Following the death of his father, himself a stage actor, in 1930, Chaney opted to pursue a career in performance. Following a handful of minor parts in feature films, Chaney began to accrue lead roles. Early instances of this...