Lon Chaney Jr. was known for being the only actor to play all of the "big four" monsters: the Mummy, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein and Dracula.

Lon Chaney was an actor known for his use of makeup to great effect in such films as 'The Phantom of the Opera' and 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame.'

James Chaney was one of three civil rights workers killed in Mississippi in 1964. This tragedy inspired the 1988 film ‘Mississippi Burning.’