Lon Chaney

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1883-03-31 (47 years old)

Deathday

1930-08-26

Place of Birth

Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

Lon Chaney

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, li...

Acting

1925

The Phantom of the Opera

as Erik, The Phantom

1925

The Monster

as Dr. Ziska

1927

The Unknown

as Alonzo

1928

West of Zanzibar

as Phroso 'Dead-Legs'

1922

A Blind Bargain

as Dr. Arthur Lamb / The Ape Man

1928

Laugh, Clown, Laugh

as Tito Beppi

1925

The Unholy Three

as Professor Echo / Granny O'Grady

1930

The Unholy Three

as Professor Echo / Grandma O'Grady

1920

The Penalty

as Blizzard

1924

He Who Gets Slapped

as Paul Beaumont

1923

While Paris Sleeps

as Henri Santodos

1914

Damon and Pythias

as Wild Man (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

1979

The Horror Show

as (archive footage)

1921

The Ace of Hearts

as Farallone

1918

Fast Company

as Dan McCarty

1917

Bondage

as Seducer (uncredited)

1974

1953

Yesterday and Today

as (archive footage)

1927

London After Midnight

as Professor Edward C. Burke

1922

Shadows

as Yen Sin

1914

Discord and Harmony

as Lon - the Sculptor

1913

1914

The End of the Feud

as Wood Dawson

1914

A Ranch Romance

as Raphael Praz

1915

The Measure of a Man

as Donald MacDermott

1921

For Those We Love

as Trix Ulner

1919

A Man's Country

as 'Three Card' Duncan

1922

Quincy Adams Sawyer

as Obadiah Strout

1926

The Road to Mandalay

as Singapore Joe

1927

Mockery

as Sergei

1927

Mr. Wu

as Mr. Wu / Wu's Grandfather

1915

Alas and Alack

as The Fisherman and Hunchback Fate

1926

The Blackbird

as Dan - The Blackbird / The Bishop

1919

The Wicked Darling

as Stoop Connors

1917

The Scarlet Car

as Paul Revere Forbes

1923

The Shock

as Wilse Dilling

1922

The Light in the Dark

as Tony Pantelli

1922

Flesh and Blood

as David Webster

1921

Outside the Law

as Ah Wing / 'Black Mike' Sylva

1929

Where East Is East

as Tiger Haynes

2000

The Many Faces of Dracula

as Self (archive footage)

1928

While the City Sleeps

as Dan Coghlan

1919

When Bearcat Went Dry

as Kindard Powers

1919

Victory

as Ricardo

1914

The Oubliette

as Chevalier Bertrand de la Payne

1914

By the Sun's Rays

as Frank Lawler, the Clerk

1919

The False Faces

as Karl Eckstrom

1920

Nomads of the North

as Raoul Challoner

1922

The Trap

as Gaspard the Good

2022

They Came from the Attic

as The Phantom of the Opera (Archival Footage)

1913

The Restless Spirit

as The Russian Count (uncredited)

2014

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film

as The Phantom / Quasimodo (archive footage)

1942

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

as Self (archive footage)

1917

1926

Tell It to the Marines

as Sergeant O'Hara

1918

1931

The House That Shadows Built

as (archive footage)

1919

The Miracle Man

as The Frog

1983

The Horror of It All

as The Phantom (archive footage)

2007

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

as Self (archive footage)

1916

The Mark of Cain

as Dick Temple

1922

Oliver Twist

as Fagin

2002

London After Midnight

as Professor Edward C. Burke (archive footage)

1995

Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask

as Self (archive footage)

1920

Treasure Island

as Blind Pew / Merry

2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

as Himself (archive footage)

2007

Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire

as Himself (archive footage)

1920

The Gift Supreme

as Merney Stagg

1914

The Forbidden Room

as John Morris

1913

Back to Life

as The Rival

1928

The Big City

as Chuck Collins

1929

Thunder

as Grumpy Anderson

1915

The Sin of Olga Brandt

as Stephen Leslie

1914

A Night of Thrills

as The Visitor

1921

1917

Triumph

as Paul Neihoff

1914

Richelieu

as Baradas

1924

The Next Corner

as Juan Serafin

1918

Broadway Love

as Elmer Watkins

1916

If My Country Should Call

as Dr. George Ardrath

2000

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

as Self (archive footage)

1917

Hell Morgan's Girl

as Sleter Noble

1917

Anything Once

as Waughnt Moore

1917

Fires of Rebellion

as Russell Hanlon

1916

Bobbie of the Ballet

as Hook Hoover

1916

1916

1917

The Piper's Price

as Billy Kilmartin

1916

The Price of Silence

as Edmond Stafford

1917

A Doll's House

as Nils Krogstad

1918

A Broadway Scandal

as 'Kink' Colby

1917

The Flashlight

as Henry Norton / Porter Brixton

1917

The Rescue

as Thomas Holland

1918

1917

1917

Pay Me!

as Joe Lawson

1918

The Grand Passion

as Paul Argos

1995

1919

Paid in Advance

as Bateese Le Blanc

1918

Riddle Gawne

as Hame Bozzam

2008

Nadie inquietó más

as Various Roles (archive footage)

1918

That Devil, Bateese

as Louis Courteau

1918

The Talk of the Town

as Jack Langhorne

1921

Bits of Life

as Chin Chow

1916

The Grip of Jealousy

as Silas Lacey

1916

Tangled Hearts

as John Hammond

1998

Universal Horror

as (archive footage)

1951

Hollywood Story

as The Phantom (archive footage) (uncredited)

1916

Dolly's Scoop

as Dan Fisher

1914

The Higher Law

as Sir Stephen Fitz Allen

1914

Virtue Its Own Reward

as Duncan Bronson

1914

The Lion, the Lamb and the Man

as Fred Brown, the Lion

1915

The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis

as The Duke of Safoulrug

1915

1915

Father and the Boys

as Tuck Bartholomew

Production

1925

The Phantom of the Opera

as Makeup Artist

1930

The Unholy Three

as Makeup Artist

1923

1915

The Stool Pigeon

as Director

1915

1915

1922

The Trap

as Story

1923

1915

Graft

as Makeup Artist

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