- Acting films
- 95
- Acting avg
- 6.00
- Peak run
- 1938’39
Acting films, by TMDB rating
The career
Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 25+ votes
Lon by the numbers
Average
6.00
51 rated films
Vote weighted
6.08
bigger films count more
Median
6.2
half are better
Consistency
±0.90
rating spread
Career
50y
1922 to 1971
Total votes
6.86K
across every film
Best
7.7
High Noon
Worst
7.0
The Wolf Man
Newest first
Filmography
| 2000 |  The American Nightmare | Self | 6.8 | 38 |
| 1971 |  Dracula vs. Frankenstein | Groton | 4.5 | 57 |
| 1971 |  The Female Bunch | Monti | 4.8 | 25 |
| 1968 |  Buckskin | Sheriff Tangley | · | 10 |
| 1968 |  The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) | · | 19 |
| 1967 |  Spider Baby | Bruno | 6.8 | 190 |
| 1967 |  Welcome to Hard Times | Avery | 5.3 | 26 |
| 1967 |  Hillbillys in a Haunted House | Maximillian | 2.8 | 35 |
| 1967 | Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors | Dr. Mendell | 4.5 | 31 |
| 1966 |  Johnny Reno | Sheriff Hodges | · | 22 |
| 1965 |  Apache Uprising | Charlie Russell | · | 15 |
| 1965 |  Town Tamer | Charlie Leach | · | 12 |
| 1965 |  Black Spurs | Kile | · | 19 |
| 1965 |  Face of the Screaming Werewolf | The Mummified Werewolf | · | 17 |
| 1965 |  House of the Black Death | Belial Desard | · | 13 |
| 1964 |  Young Fury | Bartender | · | 13 |
| 1964 |  Law of the Lawless | Tiny | · | 10 |
| 1964 |  Witchcraft | Morgan Whitlock | 6.6 | 35 |
| 1963 |  The Haunted Palace | Simon Orne | 6.7 | 206 |
| 1962 |  The Devil's Messenger | Satan | · | 17 |
Better together?
Lon Chaney Jr.'s regulars
- John CarradineCo-star · 6 films · 4.90 avg▼−0.98
- Reginald Le BorgDirector and actor · 5 films · 6.14 avg▲+0.08
- J. Carrol NaishCo-star · 4 films · 5.95 avg▼−0.17
- Rory CalhounCo-star · 3 films
- R.G. SpringsteenDirector and actor · 3 films
- Erle C. KentonDirector and actor · 3 films · 5.80 avg▼−0.35
- W. Lee WilderDirector and actor · 2 films
- George WaggnerDirector and actor · 2 films · 6.58 avg▲+0.53
- André de TothDirector and actor · 2 films · 6.33 avg▲+0.11
- Harold YoungDirector and actor · 2 films · 5.90 avg▼−0.24
- Curt SiodmakDirector and actor · 2 films · 4.80 avg▼−0.80
- Al AdamsonDirector and actor · 2 films · 4.65 avg▼−0.43
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: John Carradine and Lon Chaney Jr. movies · Reginald Le Borg and Lon Chaney Jr. movies · Lon Chaney Jr. and J. Carrol Naish movies · Lon Chaney Jr. and Rory Calhoun movies
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