Wolf Man

History
The Wolf Man  is a 1941 American  Werewolf   Horror film  written by  Curt Siodmak  and produced and directed by  George Waggner. The film stars  Lon Chaney, Jr. as "The Wolf Man" and features  Claude Rains ,  Evelyn Ankers ,  Ralph Bellamy ,  Patric Knowles ,  Béla Lugosi, and  Maria Ouspenskaya. The title character has had a great deal of influence on  Hollywood 's depictions of the legend of the  werewolf. The film is the second  Universal Pictures  werewolf movie, preceded six years earlier by the less commercially successful  Werewolf of London  (1935).