The Wolf Man (1941 film) Chaney Jr. would reprise his classic role as "The Wolf Man" in four sequels, beginning with "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man" in 1943. Sometime in the early twentieth century, after learning of the death of his brother, Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) returns to his ancestral home in Llanwelly, Wales to reconcile with his estranged father, Sir John Talbot (Claude Rains). While there, Larry becomes romantically interested in a local girl named Gwen Conliffe (Evelyn Ankers), who runs an antique shop. As a pretext to converse with her, he purchases a silver-headed walking stick decorated with a wolf. Gwen tells
The Howling (film) horror film directors who directed other films that featured werewolves, including George Waggner, who directed "The Wolf Man" (1941). Others include R. William Neill ("Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man", 1943), Terence Fisher ("The Curse of the Werewolf", 1960), Freddie Francis ("Legend of the Werewolf", 1975), Erle Kenton ("House of Dracula", 1945, which co-stars John Carradine, who plays Kenton in "The Howling"), Sam Newfield ("The Mad Monster", 1942), Charles Barton ("Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein", 1948), Jacinto Molina ("La Marca del Hombre Lobo", 1968) and Lew Landers ("The Return of the Vampire", 1943). Dick Miller's bookstore owner Walter Paisley gets his