Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man is a 1943 American horror film produced by Universal Studios starring Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. This was the first of a series of "ensemble" monster films combining characters from several film series. This film, therefore, is both the fifth in the series of films based upon Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", directly after "The Ghost of Frankenstein", and a sequel to "The Wolf Man". Some four years after the events of "The Wolf Man" and "The Ghost of Frankenstein", two men break into
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man that during a lunch in the studio commissary he had joked to producer George Waggner that he had a great title for a new film in the series (half-heartedly — he needed a down payment for a new car): ""Frankenstein Wolfs The Meat Man"". Waggner, not known for a casual sense of humor, left to have his lunch; shortly thereafter, he called Siodmak to his office, telling him to "go ahead, buy the car." Dumbfounded but pleased, the writer went to work; thus that next film was "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man", which served as a sequel both to "The