71. What actor becomes a werewolf in the 1941 classic titled 'The Wolf Man'?
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Answer:
Lon Chaney Jr.
This is a role that Lon Chaney Jr. is very famous for playing. This movie is about a man named Larry Talbot, who returns home in Llanwelly, Wales, to reconcile with his father (played by Claude Rains). While there, he meets a local girl who runs an antique shop. He buys a silver-headed walking stick decorated with a wolf. The shop owner, Gwen, tells him that it represents a werewolf, which she says is a man who becomes a wolf at certain times of the year. Later that night, he gets bitten by a wolf while trying to save a friend of Gwen's from being attacked. He kills it with his walking stick. He then goes to a gypsy fortuneteller, who reveals that it was her son (played by Bela Lugosi) who actually bit him while in the form of a wolf. Now the curse of lycanthropy has been passed to Larry, who soon begins spouting hair and fangs when the full moon hits. Lon Chaney Jr. has a filmography a mile long, including movies like 'Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman' (1943), 'Spider Baby' (1964), 'Dracula vs. Frankenstein' (1971), as well as many others. His father is Lon Chaney Sr., a famous silent film actor. Chaney Jr., whose real given birth name is Creighton Tull Chaney, was born Feb 10, 1906 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He died July 12, 1973 at the age of 67.
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