{"id":2691,"date":"2024-02-10T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2691"},"modified":"2024-03-04T10:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T10:44:14","slug":"happy-birthday-lon-chaney-jr-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/02\/happy-birthday-lon-chaney-jr-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Lon Chaney Jr.!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">February 10, 1906 \u2013 July 12, 1973<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born Creighton Tull Chaney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; an American actor who enjoyed a career in movies that spanned 4 decades with an astonishing 197 acting credits! \u201cThe Prince of Pain\u201d is the only person to have played all four of the classic movie monsters: THE WOLF MAN (1941) as Laurence Talbot\/The Wolf Man; THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN (1942) as Frankenstein&#8217;s Monster; THE MUMMY\u2019S TOMB (1942) as Kharis, the mummy; SON OF DRACULA (1943) as Count Anthony Alucard, Dracula&#8217;s son.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1148\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1148\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lon-Chaney-Jr_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Lon Chaney Jr. photo collage\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lon-Chaney-Jr_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lon-Chaney-Jr_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lon-Chaney-Jr_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lon-Chaney-Jr_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lon-Chaney-Jr_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lon Chaney Jr. \u2022 February 10, 1906 \u2013 July 12, 1973<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 10, 1906 \u2013 July 12, 1973 Born Creighton Tull Chaney in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; an American actor who enjoyed a career in movies that spanned 4 decades with an astonishing 197 acting credits! \u201cThe Prince of Pain\u201d is the only person to have played all four of the classic movie monsters: THE WOLF MAN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,15,7,5,6,67,33,32,61,120,64],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-dracula","tag-frankenstein","tag-happybirthday","tag-lonchaneyjr","tag-themummy","tag-thewolfman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Lon-Chaney-Jr_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}