American actor best remembered for roles in films such as The Wolf Man, The Mummy's Tomb, The Ghost of Frankenstein, The Defiant Ones, Of Mice and Men, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Son of Dracula, High Noon and Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein. On TV he appeared in Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans. In a book about Chaney, it mentioned how his Father said in an interview that the boy's 6ft 2 inches of height would be a hindrance in finding acting work. One biographer mentioned "he was just six feet tall"