The Unknown ( 1927 ), featuring Chaney as an armless knife thrower and Joan Crawford as his scantily clad carnival girl obsession, was originally titled Alonzo the Armless and could be considered a precursor to Freaks in that it concerns a love triangle involving a circus freak, a beauty, and a strongman.

Stowell and Phillips made The Heart of Humanity ( 1918 ), bringing in Erich von Stroheim for a part as the villain that could easily have been played by Chaney.

The eerie musical piece during the tense scene in the film where Ben finds the rifle in the closet inside the farmhouse as the radio reports of mayhem play in the background can be heard in longer and more complete form during the opening credits and the beginning of The Devil's Messenger ( 1961 ) starring Lon Chaney Jr. Another piece, accompanying Barbra's flight from the cemetery zombie, was taken from the score for The Hideous Sun Demon ( 1959 ).

It was then announced that Chris Chaney would be the band's live bassist for some shows in 2011.

He appeared in films under his real name until 1935, when he began to be billed as " Lon Chaney, Jr ." From 1942 onward, he was billed simply as " Lon Chaney ," although the " Jr ." was often added by others when they referred to him.

( 1940 ) as Victor Mature's caveman father, Chaney began to be viewed as a character actor in the mold of his father.

According to costar Peter Coe, Chaney demanded that Farnum be given his own chair on the set and be treated with respect, or else he would walk off the picture.

When Chaney asked for a raise, studio executive William Sistrom replied, " You'll never be worth more than one hundred dollars a week.

This is perhaps why some see the ending as a cop-out and Bela Lugosi reportedly found the idea absurd ( then again, the film is a semi-remake of Browning's London After Midnight in which Lon Chaney played a vampire who turned out to be a detective in disguise, so it couldn't have been that unexpected ).

Believing there are other men involved in his brother's death who should be charged as accomplices to murder, as he was, Ben Chaney has said, " I'm not as sad as I was ," he adds.

On March 13, 2006, Chaney announced his retirement from coaching at a press conference, to be effective after Temple's play in the National Invitation Tournament ( NIT ).

However there may be some exaggeration involved-studio logs indicate during the filming of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein ( 1948 ) the entire crew, including Chaney took a two hour break during the filming of a transformation and filmed the rest of the scene later that day ( though the makeup for Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein had been greatly redesigned and streamlined by Bud Westmore over the original Jack Pierce makeup ).

Fortunately, at the suggestion of coach Chaney, who the judge was a fan of, it is decided that the dog will choose who will be his rightful owner.

Chaney is buried in an unmarked grave in Section ' E ' of Baltimore Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, though reports surfaced that funds were raised by " Our Gang " fans for a gravestone, to be set by Fall 2012 ... 76 years after Chaney's passing.

The name was supposed to be Red's Giant Hamburger, but Chaney measured the sign incorrectly and dropped the " er ".

Biographer Clarice Stasz and others believe that London's father was astrologer William Chaney.

Stasz notes that in his memoirs, Chaney refers to London's mother Flora Wellman as having been his " wife " and also cites an advertisement in which Flora called herself " Florence Wellman Chaney ".

Screen names are also used to create a more marketable name, as in the case of Creighton Tull Chaney, who adopted the pseudonym Lon Chaney, Jr., a reference to his famous father Lon Chaney, Sr. On the converse, Nicolas Cage adopted this stage name instead of his real name, Nicolas Kim Coppola, in order to conceal the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of famous director Francis Ford Coppola.

Lon Chaney, Sr., Chaney's father

Leonidas Frank Chaney was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Frank H. Chaney and Emma Alice Kennedy ; his father had mostly English and some French ancestry, and his mother was of Scottish, English, and Irish descent.

After high school, Chaney started as an apprentice in a trade union with his father.

After learning of the death of his brother, Larry Talbot ( Lon Chaney, Jr .) returns to his ancestral home in Llanwelly, Wales to reconcile with his estranged father, Sir John Talbot ( Claude Rains ).

The film stars Victor Mature as protagonist Tumak, a young cave man who strives to unite the uncivilized Rock Tribe and the peaceful Shell Tribe, Carole Landis as Loana, daughter of the Shell Tribe chief and Tumak's love interest, and Lon Chaney, Jr. as Tumak's stern father and leader of the Rock Tribe.

Actor Robert Stack claimed in his 1980 biography that Chaney and drinking buddy Broderick Crawford were known as " the monsters " around the Universal Pictures lot because of their drunken behavior that frequently resulted in bloodshed.

For example, Mike Chaney of ddisoftware says, " the SD14 produces better photos than a typical 10 MP dSLR because it is able to carry sharp detail all the way to the ' falloff ' point at 1700 LPI whereas contrast, color detail, and sharpness begin to degrade long before the 1700 LPI limit on a Bayer based 10 MP dSLR.

In 1964 the US Justice Department charged eighteen individuals under the 1870 US Force Act, with conspiring to deprive Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman of their civil rights by murder because Mississippi officials refused to prosecute their killers for murder, a state crime.

Based on surviving accounts, he purposefully gave the " vampire " character an absurd quality, because it was the film's Scotland Yard detective character ( also played by Chaney ) in a disguise.

The St. Joe's – Temple rivalry has increased in intensity in recent years, mostly because of the " Goon Gate " incident in 2005 involving former Temple coach John Chaney where he sent in a player to intentionally foul John Bryant which led to his fractured arm.

Speed is willing because it will square his debts, but Chaney refuses.

Lucy also splits with Chaney because of his emotional distance and lack of commitment.

London After Midnight ( 1927 ) was Browning's first foray into the vampire genre and is a highly sought-after lost film which starred Chaney, Conrad Nagel, and Marceline Day.

John Griffith " Jack " London ( born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916 ) was an American author, journalist, and social activist.

Flora Wellman was living with Chaney in San Francisco when she became pregnant.

Film historian Robert Osborne notes that his makeup skills were so creative, that for most of his roles, " he transformed his appearance so completely, he was dubbed ' the New Lon Chaney.

Lon Chaney, Sr. was originally chosen for the role of Butch, a violent career criminal who rules the prison cellblock.

Chaney had appeared in more than 50 films to that point in his career, but Of Mice and Men was his first major role.

When three civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman went missing in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, he reportedly told President Lyndon Johnson that the incident was a hoax and there was no Ku Klux Klan in the state, surmising that the three had gone to Chicago :< ref >

Lon Chaney, who was not working that day and who had previously played the Monster in Ghost of Frankenstein, took over the role of the Monster for that scene as well as the scene where the monster is throwing barrels and crates at Wilbur and Chick while they are trying to escape in a rowboat at the pier.

His replacement, Chaney Phillips, served for only a year before he was convicted for fraud and money laundering that he committed while the parish assessor.

The trio was taken to the jail in Neshoba County where Chaney was booked for speeding, while Schwerner and Goodman were booked " for investigation ".

After Chaney was fined $ 20, the three men were released and told to leave the county.

The federal courthouse was the site of the 1966-1967 trial of suspects in the murder of Chaney and two other activists ; it was the first time a white jury convicted a white official of a civil rights killing.

A. P. Asbury and Robert W. Miers and John C. Chaney, and the principal address of the afternoon was delivered by Mitchell himself.

“ The wounded were brought into town and Mrs. Chaney ’ s large dwelling was taken for a hospital.

Philadelphia in June 1964 was the site of the murders of activists James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi ; Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old Jewish anthropology student from New York ; and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old Jewish CORE organizer and former social worker, also from New York.

The statement made by " Mayor Tilman " to the FBI agents is paraphrased from a quote by U. S. Senator James Eastland, who reportedly said that when the three civil rights workers ( Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman ) went missing in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, " the incident is a hoax and there is no Ku Klux Klan in the state ; the three have gone to Chicago ", and that it was staged by the three young men to call attention to their cause.

Lon Chaney, Jr. ( February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973 ), born Creighton Tull Chaney, son of famous silent film actor, Lon Chaney He was an American character actor known for playing monsters such as The Wolf Man, The Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster and Count Alucard in the universal monster films.