Lon Chaney
Birthday: 1883-03-31
Place of Birth: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
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.
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The Phantom of the Opera
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The Unknown
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his fee...
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The Monster
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh
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A Blind Bargain
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The Penalty
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The Unholy Three
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West of Zanzibar
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He Who Gets Slapped
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The Unholy Three
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While Paris Sleeps
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Damon and Pythias
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The Ace of Hearts
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Fast Company
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Bondage
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The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
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Yesterday and Today
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London After Midnight
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Shadows
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Poor Jake's Demise
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Discord and Harmony
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The End of the Feud
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A Ranch Romance
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The Stool Pigeon
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The Measure of a Man
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The Oyster Dredger
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For Those We Love
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A Man's Country
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Quincy Adams Sawyer
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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The Road to Mandalay
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Mockery
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Mr. Wu
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Alas and Alack
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The Blackbird
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The Wicked Darling
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The Phantom of the Opera
Reissued version of 'The Phantom of the Opera' with a synchronized score, sound effects, new dialogu...
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The Scarlet Car
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The Shock
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The Light in the Dark
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Outside the Law
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Flesh and Blood
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Where East Is East
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The Many Faces of Dracula
Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula...
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While the City Sleeps
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When Bearcat Went Dry
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Victory
Adaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island....
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The Oubliette
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By the Sun's Rays
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The False Faces
During World War I, a professional thief known as The Lone Wolf is assigned to steal a cylinder with...
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Nomads of the North
A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves....
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The Trap
A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and...
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They Came from the Attic
A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape,...
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Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney
Lon and Hazel Chaney with Mabel and Bill Dunphy play with a dog [perhaps Sandy] and perform some vau...
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The Restless Spirit
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Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
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Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
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Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of editio...
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The Empty Gun
Frank, riding through the storm, approaches the station, to give ten thousand dollars worth of gold,...
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Tell It to the Marines
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The Tower of Lies
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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
A propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhe...
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The House That Shadows Built
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The Miracle Man
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The Horror of It All
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made ...
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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - For...
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The Millionaire Paupers
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Oliver Twist
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London After Midnight
A reconstruction, made from still photographs, of the lost 1927 Tod Browning film London After Midni...
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Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask
A documentary on the life and career of actor Lon Chaney, with clips from his films and interviews w...
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Treasure Island
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Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
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Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire
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The Gift Supreme
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The Forbidden Room
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The Tragedy of Whispering Creek
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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions o...
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Back to Life
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The Big City
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Thunder
A train operator's obsession with being on time leads to tragedy for his family....
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A Night of Thrills
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The Sin of Olga Brandt
Olga Brandt, a stenographer in the office of Stephen Leslie, an attorney, receives a pitifully small...
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Voices of the City
When taken to a San Francisco cafe by her sweetheart Jimmy, Georgia Rodman witnesses the shooting of...
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Triumph
This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for...
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A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)
Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could...
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Richelieu
Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due...
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All the Brothers Were Valiant
Mark is the captain of a whaling ship and he looks down on brother Joel, who has never gone to sea. ...
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The Next Corner
While honeymooning in Paris Elsie is rescued from attentions of a man.Her hero is Don Arturo who tak...
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Broadway Love
A small-town girl who goes to New York hoping to become a Broadway star falls in with a fast crowd....
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If My Country Should Call
A doctor is called to the home of a young man who wants to enlist in the Army....
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A Mother's Atonement
A man recalls his earlier days when he was married and his wife cheated on him....
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Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and ...
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Hell Morgan's Girl
Roger Curwell (William Stowell) is disowned by his father (Joseph W. Girard) because of his desire t...
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Anything Once
A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A vi...
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Fires of Rebellion
Madge Garvey (Dorothy Phillips) works in a shoe factory. Her father Joe (Richard de la Reno) is a dr...
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Bobbie of the Ballet
Wealthy Jack Stimson (Jay Belasco) falls in love with Broadway diva Velma Vrooman (Gretchen Lederer)...
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The Piper's Price
After divorcing his first wife and marrying a more gentle natured woman, Ralph Hadley finds himself ...
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The Grasp of Greed
En route to Australia, beautiful authoress Alice Gordon (Louise Lovely) is shipwrecked on a desert i...
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The Gilded Spider
An unusual story about the crossing paths of the poor Italian family of the sculptor Giovanni (Lon C...
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The Price of Silence
A woman gives up her illegitimate child, and then marries without telling her new husband about the ...
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A Doll's House
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian hus...
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A Broadway Scandal
Having been misinformed that all French girls are morally suspect, American soldier David Kendall (E...
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The Rescue
After divorcing her husband Kent, actress Anne Wetherall returns to the stage. Upon receiving a plea...
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The Flashlight
Jack Lane (William Stowell) has made an invention for photographing wild animals. It consists of a c...
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Danger, Go Slow
Muggsy Mulane, a waif who wears boy's clothing, jumps a freight train to the country after Jimmy "th...
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The Grand Passion
Dick Evans is the corrupt boss of a rough-and-tumble munitions town called Powderville. He hires his...
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Pay Me!
During a violent disagreement, a miner strangles his partner and accidentally shoots the man's wife....
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The Girl in the Checkered Coat
When Mary and Fannie Graham, daughters of a good mother but a father with criminal instincts, are le...
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Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces
Born Creighton Chaney, this is a biographical documentary on Lon Chaney Jr, the only star to play al...
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Riddle Gawne
When Gawne finds his brother dying and hears that the killer has run off with his brother's wife, he...
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Paid in Advance
In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band o...
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Nadie inquietó más
A peculiar, meticulous, vocationally archeological account of the professional life of the actor, Sp...
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That Devil, Bateese
After her romance with Martin Stuart shatters, Kathleen St. John leaves Montreal for the little vill...
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The Talk of the Town
Her strict upbringing is driving Genevra French (Dorothy Phillips) crazy, so when she gets her hand ...
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Bits of Life
This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a ...
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Tangled Hearts
Montgomery Seaton, one of the idle rich, pays more attention to his friends' business than to his ma...
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The Grip of Jealousy
In pre-Civil War days, a woman dies in childbirth. Her sister, believing the child to be illegitimat...
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Universal Horror
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the...
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Hollywood Story
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the uns...
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Dolly's Scoop
James Fairfax, editor of the scandalous Morning Argus, stops at nothing for a juicy story, much to t...
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The Higher Law
The youthful monarch, Edward IV of England, is treacherously advised by Sir Stephen Fitz Allen, who ...
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Virtue Its Own Reward
A humble, conscientious factory worker decides to take matters into her own hands when her guileless...
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The Lion, the Lamb and the Man
A spirited young college graduate is sent away to the Kentucky mountains to live with her uncle afte...
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The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis
The heraldic image of the fleur-de-lis weaves through the story of an orphaned girl, born with a bir...
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Father and the Boys
Wealthy stockbroker Lemuel Morewood wants his sons, Billy and Tom, to learn the business and marry E...
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The Honor of the Family
Gerald leaves England to seek his fortune in America and falls in love with Marja.Claude his older b...
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