FrameThrower · Actors · Lon Chaney Jr.
Lon Chaney Jr.
2 films · 129 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1941–1952
Born 10 February 1906 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA · died 12 July 1973
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lon Chaney, Jr., born Creighton Tull Chaney, was an American character actor. He was best known for his roles in monster movies and as the son of famous silent film actor, Lon Chaney. He is notable for playing Larry Talbot in The Wolf Man movies. Originally credited in films as Creighton Chaney, he was first credited as "Lon Chaney, Jr." in 1935. Chaney had English, French and Irish ancestry.
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How their films are shot
Measured across 129 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lon takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day — the look of the work Lon takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 129 frames from Lon Chaney Jr.'s 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.