The Wolf Man (1941 film)
The Wolf Man is a 1941 American horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner.
The film stars Lon Chaney Jr. in the title role.
Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, and Maria Ouspenskaya star in supporting roles.
The title character has had a great deal of influence on Hollywood's depictions of the legend of the werewolf.
The film is the second Universal Pictures werewolf film, preceded six years earlier by the less commercially successful" Werewolf of London"( 1935).
Lon Chaney Jr. would reprise his classic role as" The Wolf Man" in four sequels, beginning with" Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" in 1943.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is a 1943 American horror film produced by Universal Studios starring Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster.
This was the first of a series of "ensemble" monster films combining characters from several film series.
This film, therefore, is both the fifth in the series of films based upon Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", directly after "The Ghost of Frankenstein", and a sequel to "The Wolf Man".
Edmund Mortimer (actor)
Edmund Mortimer (August 21, 1874 – May 21, 1944) was an American actor and film director.
He appeared in 251 films between 1913 and 1945.
He also directed 23 films between 1918 and 1928.
He was born in New York, New York and died in Los Angeles, California.
Victor Man
Victor Man( born 1974) is a Romanian- born artist and painter.
The House of Frankenstein (film)
The House of Frankenstein is a 1944 American monster crossover horror film starring Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr., directed by Erle C. Kenton, written by Curt Siodmak, and produced by Universal Studios as a sequel to" Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" and" Son of Dracula" the previous year.
The cast includes a mad scientist( Karloff), the Wolf Man( Chaney), Count Dracula( John Carradine), a hunchback( J. Carrol Naish), and Frankenstein's monster( Glenn Strange).
This" monster rally" approach would continue in the following film," House of Dracula", as well as the 1948 comedy" Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein".
George Waggner
George Waggner( September 7, 1894 – December 11, 1984) was an actor, director, producer and writer.
He is best known for directing Lon Chaney Jr. in the 1941 film" The Wolf Man".
North to the Klondike
North to the Klondike is a 1942 American action movie directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring Broderick Crawford, Evelyn Ankers and Andy Devine.
The supporting cast features Lon Chaney, Jr. in his last film before" The Wolf Man", which also stars Ankers, but" North to the Klondike" was released the year after" The Wolf Man".
Weird Woman
Weird Woman is a 1944 Inner Sanctum film noir mystery and horror film directed by Reginald Le Borg and starring Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, and Evelyn Ankers.
The" Inner Sanctum" franchise originated with a popular radio series and all of the films star Chaney Jr. The film is one of several films based on the novel" Conjure Wife" by Fritz Leiber, the others include" Night of the Eagle"( 1962) and" Witches' Brew"( 1980).
Co- star Evelyn Ankers had previously worked with Chaney in" Ghost of Frankenstein," when Chaney played the monster, and" The Wolf Man", when Chaney played the wolf man.
The Wolf Man (1924 film)
The Wolf Man is a 1924 American silent drama film that starred John Gilbert and Norma Shearer, before they signed with the newly formed MGM.
Directed by Edmund Mortimer, the film's story was written by Reed Heustis, and written by Fanny and Frederic Hatton. "
The Wolf Man" is now considered lost.
House of Dracula
House of Dracula is a 1945 American monster crossover horror film released by Universal Pictures.
It was a direct sequel to" House of Frankenstein", and continued the theme of combining Universal's three most popular monsters: Frankenstein's monster( Glenn Strange), Count Dracula( John Carradine), and the Wolf Man( Lon Chaney Jr.).
The film, which was the seventh Universal film to feature Frankenstein's monster, as well as the fourth with Count Dracula and the Wolf Man, was a commercial success, but was one of the last Universal movies featuring Frankenstein's monster, vampires, and werewolves, with the exception of the comedy" Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"( 1948), in which all three appear.

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