American character actor whose career was influenced (and often overshadowed) by that of his father, silent film star Lon Chaney. The younger Chaney was born while his parents were on a theatrical tour, and he joined them onstage for the first time at the age of six months. However, as a young man...See full bio »
(1992) CD: "Not of This Earth--The Film Music of Ronald Stein" (Varese Sarabande). NOTE: Includes Lon's song rehearsal from
Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told and the final cut from the film.
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The trouble with most of the monster pictures today is that they go after horror for horror's sake. There's no motivation for how monsters behave. There's too much of that science-fiction baloney.
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Pictured on one of a set of five 32¢ US commemorative postage stamps, issued 30 September 1997, celebrating "Famous Movie Monsters". He is shown as the title character in
The Wolf Man. Other actors honored in this set of stamps, and the classic monsters they portray, are Lon Chaney as
The Phantom of the Opera;...
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