Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1883-03-31 (47 years old)
Deathday
1930-08-26
Place of Birth
Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Also known As
Leonidas Frank Chaney
Man of a Thousand Faces
Лон Чейни
Lon Chaney Sr.
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, li...
1925
as Erik, The Phantom
1925
as Dr. Ziska
1927
as Alonzo
1928
as Phroso 'Dead-Legs'
1922
as Dr. Arthur Lamb / The Ape Man
1928
as Tito Beppi
1925
as Professor Echo / Granny O'Grady
1930
as Professor Echo / Grandma O'Grady
1920
as Blizzard
1924
as Paul Beaumont
1923
as Henri Santodos
1914
as Wild Man (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
1979
as (archive footage)
1921
as Farallone
1918
as Dan McCarty
1917
as Seducer (uncredited)
1974
as Self (archive footage)
1953
as (archive footage)
1927
as Professor Edward C. Burke
1922
as Yen Sin
1914
as Lon - the Sculptor
1913
as The Dude
1915
1914
as Wood Dawson
1914
as Raphael Praz
1915
as Donald MacDermott
1921
as Trix Ulner
1919
as 'Three Card' Duncan
1922
as Obadiah Strout
1927
as Self
1923
as Quasimodo
1926
as Singapore Joe
1927
as Sergei
1927
as Mr. Wu / Wu's Grandfather
1915
as The Fisherman and Hunchback Fate
1926
as Dan - The Blackbird / The Bishop
1919
as Stoop Connors
1929
as Erik
1917
as Paul Revere Forbes
1923
as Wilse Dilling
1922
as Tony Pantelli
1922
as David Webster
1921
as Ah Wing / 'Black Mike' Sylva
1929
as Tiger Haynes
2000
as Self (archive footage)
1928
as Dan Coghlan
1919
as Kindard Powers
1919
as Ricardo
1914
as Chevalier Bertrand de la Payne
1914
as Frank Lawler, the Clerk
1919
as Karl Eckstrom
1920
as Raoul Challoner
1922
as Gaspard the Good
2022
as The Phantom of the Opera (Archival Footage)
1913
as The Russian Count (uncredited)
2014
as The Phantom / Quasimodo (archive footage)
1942
as Self (archive footage)
1945
as Self (archive footage)
1917
as Frank
1926
as Sergeant O'Hara
1925
as Jan
1918
as Bethmann-Hollweg
1931
as (archive footage)
1919
as The Frog
1983
as The Phantom (archive footage)
2007
as Self (archive footage)
1916
as Dick Temple
1915
as Landlord
1922
as Fagin
2002
as Professor Edward C. Burke (archive footage)
1995
as Self (archive footage)
1920
as Blind Pew / Merry
2011
as Himself (archive footage)
2007
as Himself (archive footage)
1920
as Merney Stagg
1914
as John Morris
1914
as The Greaser
1920
as Royce Rivers
1913
as The Rival
1928
as Chuck Collins
1929
as Grumpy Anderson
1915
as Stephen Leslie
1914
as The Visitor
1921
as O'Rourke
1917
as Paul Neihoff
1914
as Baradas
1923
as Mark Shore
1924
as Juan Serafin
1918
as Elmer Watkins
1916
as Dr. George Ardrath
1916
as Jerry Jo
1915
as Ben
2000
as Self (archive footage)
1917
as Sleter Noble
1917
as Waughnt Moore
1917
as Russell Hanlon
1916
as Hook Hoover
1916
as Giovanni
1916
as Jimmie
1917
as Billy Kilmartin
1916
as Edmond Stafford
1917
as Nils Krogstad
1918
as 'Kink' Colby
1917
as Henry Norton / Porter Brixton
1917
as Thomas Holland
1918
as Bud
1917
as Hector Maitland
1917
as Joe Lawson
1918
as Paul Argos
1995
as (archive footage)
1919
as Bateese Le Blanc
1918
as Hame Bozzam
2008
as Various Roles (archive footage)
1918
as Louis Courteau
1918
as Jack Langhorne
1921
as Chin Chow
1916
as Silas Lacey
1916
as John Hammond
1998
as (archive footage)
1951
as The Phantom (archive footage) (uncredited)
1916
as Dan Fisher
1914
as Sir Stephen Fitz Allen
1914
as Duncan Bronson
1914
as Fred Brown, the Lion
1915
as The Duke of Safoulrug
1915
as Attorney
1915
as Tuck Bartholomew
1925
as Makeup Artist
1930
as Makeup Artist
1923
as Makeup Artist
1914
as Writer
1915
as Director
1915
as Writer
1915
as Director
1922
as Story
1923
as Co-Director
1915
as Makeup Artist
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