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  1. 4 days ago · As a film, The Mummy ... played by Tom Tyler in that film and Lon Chaney Jr. in three more: The Mummy’s Tomb (1942), The Mummy’s Ghost (1944), and The Mummy’s Curse (1945).

  2. 4 days ago · Lon Chaney Jr. Played All 4 Of Universal's Horror Icons Within 2 Years. Over the course of his career, Lon Chaney Jr. portrayed numerous monsters, including the four pillars of Universal's creature library. The monster he has the strongest ties to is the werewolf, which is also the first of the four he played.

  3. Oct 6, 2024 · Unlike Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr. gleefully accepted his work and managed to portray the Wolf Man, the Mummy, Dracula, and even Dr. Frankenstein’s monster over the next decade.. In 1948, Chaney insisted the unearthly fiends in Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein play it straight to achieve a believable dichotomy of humor and the macabre.

  4. 4 days ago · The Mummy was a commercial success, and although it took Universal eight years to begin churning out sequels, they appeared in rapid succession: The Mummy’s Hand swapped out Imhotep for Kharis, played by Tom Tyler in that film and Lon Chaney Jr. in three more: The Mummy’s Tomb (1942), The Mummy’s Ghost (1944), and The Mummy’s Curse (1945).

  5. 5 days ago · Unlike Karloff’s calm menace, Lee’s Mummy was a force of raw power, crashing through doors and strangling anyone in his path. Lee was more like the zombie-like Universal mummies of the 1940s, such as Lon Chaney Jr in The Mummy’s Tomb 1942. Hammer’s version, of course, made full use of colour, with lavish Egyptian sets and plenty of blood.

  6. 4 days ago · Lon Chaney Jr. returns as Kharis the mummy who searches for his princess in The Mummys Ghost. The Mummy’s Ghost and The Mummy’s Curse. The Universal Mummy films began in 1932 with the Boris Karloff classic and spawned multiple sequels in the 1940s.

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  8. 3 days ago · Lon Chaney, Jr. (February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973), born Creighton Tull Chaney, son of the iconic silent film actor Lon Chaney, was an American actor known for playing the titular role in the 1941 film The Wolf Man and its various crossovers, as well as portraying other monsters such as The Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster, and Count Alucard ...