Lon Chaney
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: March 31, 1883
Place of Birth: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Known For
The Phantom of the Opera
Reissued version of 'The Phantom of the Opera' with a synchronized score, sound effects, new dialogue sequences, and footage reshot by directors Ernst Laemmle and Frank McCormick.
The Gilded Spider
An unusual story about the crossing paths of the poor Italian family of the sculptor Giovanni (Lon Chaney) and a reckless American millionaire, Cyrus Kirkham (Gilmore Hammond).
They Came from the Attic
A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape, he must survive.
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with the genre helped bring it into the mainstream and shape the way we view science fiction today.
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces
Born Creighton Chaney, this is a biographical documentary on Lon Chaney Jr, the only star to play all four of the classic monsters: the Mummy, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein and Dracula.
The Horror of It All
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask
A documentary on the life and career of actor Lon Chaney, with clips from his films and interviews with people who knew him.
He Who Gets Slapped
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
The Unknown
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
Filmography
as The Phantom of the Opera (Archival Footage)
as The Phantom / Quasimodo (archive footage)
as Himself (archive footage)
as Various Roles (archive footage)
as Himself (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Professor Edward C. Burke (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as The Phantom (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as The Phantom (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Professor Echo / Grandma O'Grady
as Erik
as Grumpy Anderson
as Tiger Haynes
as Phroso 'Dead-Legs'
as Tito Beppi
as Chuck Collins
as Dan Coghlan
as Professor Edward C. Burke
as Self
as Sergei
as Alonzo
as Mr. Wu / Wu's Grandfather
as Sergeant O'Hara
as Singapore Joe
as Dan - The Blackbird / The Bishop
as Jan
as Professor Echo / Granny O'Grady
as Erik, The Phantom
as Dr. Ziska
as Paul Beaumont
as Juan Serafin
as Quasimodo
as Wilse Dilling
as Henri Santodos
as Mark Shore
as Obadiah Strout
as Dr. Arthur Lamb / The Ape Man
as Yen Sin
as Fagin
as Tony Pantelli
as David Webster
as Gaspard the Good
as O'Rourke
as Chin Chow
as Farallone
as Trix Ulner
as Ah Wing / 'Black Mike' Sylva
as Raoul Challoner
as Blizzard
as Royce Rivers
as Merney Stagg
as Blind Pew / Merry
as Stoop Connors
as Ricardo
as Kindard Powers
as Bateese Le Blanc
as The Frog
as 'Three Card' Duncan
as Karl Eckstrom
as Bud
as Jack Langhorne
as Louis Courteau
as Hame Bozzam
as 'Kink' Colby
as Dan McCarty
as Paul Argos
as Elmer Watkins
as Bethmann-Hollweg
as Paul Revere Forbes
as Seducer (uncredited)
as Waughnt Moore
as Paul Neihoff
as Joe Lawson
as Thomas Holland
as Russell Hanlon
as Nils Krogstad
as Henry Norton / Porter Brixton
as Hector Maitland
as Sleter Noble
as Billy Kilmartin
as Edmond Stafford
as Jerry Jo
as Dr. George Ardrath
as Dick Temple
as Jimmie
as Hook Hoover
as Giovanni
as John Hammond
as Silas Lacey
as Dan Fisher
as Tuck Bartholomew
as Landlord
as Ben
as The Fisherman and Hunchback Fate
as The Duke of Safoulrug
as Fred Brown, the Lion
as Wild Man (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
as Duncan Bronson
as Baradas
as Chevalier Bertrand de la Payne
as Frank Lawler, the Clerk
as John Morris
as The Greaser
as Lon - the Sculptor
as The Rival
as The Russian Count (uncredited)
as The Dude