Lon Chaney, Jr.

He achieved immortality by appearing on one of a series of United States postage stamps portraying movie monsters, as the Wolf Man, in 1977. In 1969, Delon and his wife were at the center of a massive scandal when their bodyguard was found shot dead in a garbage dump. He maintained a strong career in horror movies, playing all four of the classic horror roles -- the Wolf Man, Frankenstein's monster in The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942), The Mummy in The Mummy's Tomb (1942) and (the son of) Dracula in Son of Dracula (1943). After a string of box office disasters in the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the unexpected failure of Patrice Leconte's film Une Chance sur deux, Alain Delon announced his decision to give up acting in 1997. In 1941 he starred in the title role of The Wolf Man, the characterization which would be his stereotypical role for the rest of his life. His later work has not reached these hights, and his decline is characteristic of the nouvelle vague of French actors, such as Jean-Paul Belmondo. He did not achieve stardom until the 1939 feature film version of Of Mice and Men, in which he played Lennie Small. He also gave tremendous performances in Lucino Visconti's "The Leopard" and, perhaps his finest moment, "Le Samourai".

His first movie was an uncredited role in the 1932 film Girl Crazy. His breakthrough as a film star came with Plein Soleil, a 1962 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's Talented Mr Ripley. He did not take any movie roles until after his father's death. Delon was born in Sceaux, France. But he also studied makeup under his father. Alain Delon (born November 8, 1935) is a French actor, one of the best known outside his native country. He worked menial jobs in order to make his own way.

Chaney worked hard to avoid his father's shadow. Chaney was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and died in San Clemente, California. He was born Creighton Tull Chaney, and was first credited as "Lon Chaney, Jr." in 1935, as a studio marketing ploy. Lon Chaney, Jr. (February 10, 1906 - July 12, 1973) was an American character actor, well-known mainly for his roles in monster movies and as the son of his better-known father, Lon Chaney.