Lon Chaney
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Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American actor and makeup artist. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted, characters and for his groundbreaking artistry with makeup. Chaney was known for his starring roles in such silent horror films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). His ability to transform himself using makeup techniques that he developed earned him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Faces". Description above from the Wikipedia article Lon Chaney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
as Erik, The Phantom
The Unknown (1927)
as Alonzo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
as Quasimodo
Shadows (1922)
as Yen Sin
The Unholy Three (1925)
as Professor Echo / Granny O'Grady
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films (2011)
as Himself (archive footage)
Richelieu (1914)
as Baradas
The Trap (1922)
as Gaspard the Good
The Horror Show (1979)
as (archive footage)
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
as Tito Beppi
Hollywood Story (1951)
as The Phantom (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute (1974)
as Self (archive footage)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
as Paul Beaumont
The Road to Mandalay (1926)
as Singapore Joe
Oliver Twist (1922)
as Fagin
Victory (1919)
as Ricardo
London After Midnight (1927)
as Professor Edward C. Burke/The Man in the Beaver Hat
The Blackbird (1926)
as Dan - The Blackbird / The Bishop
Mockery (1927)
as Sergei
The Restless Spirit (1913)
as The Russian Count (uncredited)
The Ace of Hearts (1921)
as Farallone
Riddle Gawne (1918)
as Hame Bozzam
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
Universal Horror (1998)
as (archive footage)
Treasure Island (1920)
as Blind Pew / Merry
The Stool Pigeon (1915)
Actor
While the City Sleeps (1928)
as Dan Coghlan
The Light in the Dark (1922)
as Tony Pantelli
That Devil, Bateese (1918)
as Louis Courteau
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
The Penalty (1920)
as Blizzard
The Unholy Three (1930)
as Professor Echo / Grandma O'Grady
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) (1942)
as Self (archive footage)
Where East Is East (1929)
as Tiger Haynes
The Adventures of Daredevil Jack (1920)
as Royce Rivers
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire (2007)
as Himself (archive footage)
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film (2014)
as The Phantom / Quasimodo (archive footage)
The Many Faces of Dracula (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
The Talk of the Town (1918)
as Jack Langhorne
The Horror of It All (1983)
as The Phantom (archive footage)
The Empty Gun (1917)
as Frank
For Those We Love (1921)
as Trix Ulner
Outside the Law (1921)
as Ah Wing / 'Black Mike' Sylva
Paid in Advance (1919)
as Bateese Le Blanc
Mr. Wu (1927)
as Mr. Wu / Wu's Grandfather
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary (1945)
as Self (archive footage)
The Tower of Lies (1925)
as Jan
The House That Shadows Built (1931)
as (archive footage)
The Monster (1925)
as Dr. Ziska
A Man's Country (1919)
as 'Three Card' Duncan
London After Midnight (2002)
as Professor Edward C. Burke (archive footage)
West of Zanzibar (1928)
as Phroso 'Dead-Legs'
Bits of Life (1921)
as Chin Chow
The Millionaire Paupers (1915)
as Landlord
Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922)
as Obadiah Strout
Danger, Go Slow (1918)
as Bud
The Miracle Man (1919)
as The Frog
While Paris Sleeps (1923)
as Henri Santodos
Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces (1995)
as (archive footage)
They Came from the Attic (2022)
as The Phantom of the Opera (Archival Footage)
Voices of the City (1921)
as O'Rourke
Anything Once (1917)
as Waughnt Moore
The Shock (1923)
as Wilse Dilling
The Scarlet Car (1917)
as Paul Revere Forbes
Dolly's Scoop (1916)
as Dan Fisher
Yesterday and Today (1953)
as (archive footage)
All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923)
as Mark Shore
A Blind Bargain (1922)
as Dr. Arthur Lamb / The Ape Man
Father and the Boys (1915)
as Tuck Bartholomew
Thunder (1929)
as Grumpy Anderson
The Gift Supreme (1920)
as Merney Stagg
Flesh and Blood (1922)
as David Webster
The Tragedy of Whispering Creek (1914)
as The Greaser
The Gilded Spider (1916)
as Giovanni
The Wicked Darling (1919)
as Stoop Connors
Nomads of the North (1920)
as Raoul Challoner
Pay Me! (1917)
as Joe Lawson
Fires of Rebellion (1917)
as Russell Hanlon
Life in Hollywood No. 3 (1927)
as Self
Poor Jake's Demise (1913)
as The Dude
Tell It to the Marines (1926)
as Sergeant O'Hara
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918)
as Bethmann-Hollweg
The False Faces (1919)
as Karl Eckstrom
The Big City (1928)
as Chuck Collins
Virtue Its Own Reward (1914)
as Duncan Bronson
Bobbie of the Ballet (1916)
as Hook Hoover
Triumph (1917)
as Paul Neihoff
Hell Morgan's Girl (1917)
as Sleter Noble
The Mark of Cain (1916)
as Dick Temple
The Phantom of the Opera (1929)
as Erik
The Piper's Price (1917)
as Billy Kilmartin
Nadie inquietó más (2008)
as Various Roles (archive footage)
The Grip of Jealousy (1916)
as Silas Lacey
The Forbidden Room (1914)
as John Morris
When Bearcat Went Dry (1919)
as Kindard Powers
The Higher Law (1914)
as Sir Stephen Fitz Allen
A Night of Thrills (1914)
as The Visitor
The Grasp of Greed (1916)
as Jimmie
The End of the Feud (1914)
as Wood Dawson
The Next Corner (1924)
as Juan Serafin
Damon and Pythias (1914)
as Wild Man (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
By the Sun's Rays (1914)
as Frank Lawler, the Clerk
The Rescue (1917)
as Thomas Holland
Back to Life (1913)
as The Rival
Tangled Hearts (1916)
as John Hammond
Broadway Love (1918)
as Elmer Watkins
Alas and Alack (1915)
as The Fisherman and Hunchback Fate
The Price of Silence (1916)
as Edmond Stafford
The Lion, the Lamb and the Man (1914)
as Fred Brown, the Lion
A Doll's House (1917)
as Nils Krogstad
The Sin of Olga Brandt (1915)
as Stephen Leslie
Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask (1995)
as Self (archive footage)
If My Country Should Call (1916)
as Dr. George Ardrath
A Mother's Atonement (1915)
as Ben
Discord and Harmony (1914)
as Lon - the Sculptor
The Place Beyond the Winds (1916)
as Jerry Jo
Stronger Than Death (1915)
as Attorney
The Flashlight (1917)
as Henry Norton / Porter Brixton
A Ranch Romance (1914)
as Raphael Praz
Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney (1928)
as Self
The Honor of the Family (1912)
Actor
Fast Company (1918)
as Dan McCarty
The Oyster Dredger (1915)
Actor
A Broadway Scandal (1918)
as 'Kink' Colby
The Grand Passion (1918)
as Paul Argos
The Girl in the Checkered Coat (1917)
as Hector Maitland
The Measure of a Man (1915)
as Donald MacDermott
Bondage (1917)
as Seducer (uncredited)
The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis (1915)
as The Duke of Safoulrug
A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01) (2013)
Actor
The Oubliette (1914)
as Chevalier Bertrand de la Payne