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