Lon Chaney
Born: 1883-03-31 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Died: 1930-08-26
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2022
- They Came from the Attic as The Phantom of the Opera (Archival Footage)
2014
- Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film as The Phantom / Quasimodo (archive footage)
2011
- Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films as Himself (archive footage)
2008
- Nadie inquietó más as Various Roles (archive footage)
2007
- Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman as Self (archive footage)
- Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire as Himself (archive footage)
2002
- London After Midnight as Professor Edward C. Burke (archive footage)
2000
- The Many Faces of Dracula as Self (archive footage)
- Lon Chaney: A thousand faces as Self (archive footage)
1998
- Universal Horror as (archive footage)
1995
- Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces as (archive footage)
- Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask as Self (archive footage)
1983
- The Horror of It All as The Phantom (archive footage)
1979
- The Horror Show as (archive footage)
1974
- The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute as Self (archive footage)
1953
- Yesterday and Today as (archive footage)
1951
- Hollywood Story as The Phantom (archive footage) (uncredited)
1945
- Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary as Self (archive footage)
1942
- Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) as Self (archive footage)
1931
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
1930
- The Unholy Three as Professor Echo / Grandma O'Grady
1929
- The Phantom of the Opera as Erik
- Thunder as Grumpy Anderson
- Where East Is East as Tiger Haynes
1928
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh as Tito Beppi
- While the City Sleeps as Dan Coghlan
- West of Zanzibar as Phroso 'Dead-Legs'
- The Big City as Chuck Collins
- Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney as Self
1927
- The Unknown as Alonzo
- Mockery as Sergei
- London After Midnight as Professor Edward C. Burke/The Man in the Beaver Hat
- Mr. Wu as Mr. Wu / Wu's Grandfather
- Life in Hollywood No. 3 as Self
1926
- The Blackbird as Dan - The Blackbird / The Bishop
- Tell It to the Marines as Sergeant O'Hara
- The Road to Mandalay as Singapore Joe
1925
- The Phantom of the Opera as Erik, The Phantom
- The Monster as Dr. Ziska
- The Unholy Three as Professor Echo / Granny O'Grady
- The Tower of Lies as Jan
1924
- He Who Gets Slapped as Paul Beaumont
- The Next Corner as Juan Serafin
1923
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame as Quasimodo
- All the Brothers Were Valiant as Mark Shore
- The Shock as Wilse Dilling
- While Paris Sleeps as Henri Santodos
1922
- Oliver Twist as Fagin
- A Blind Bargain as Dr. Arthur Lamb / The Ape Man
- Shadows as Yen Sin
- The Trap as Gaspard the Good
- Quincy Adams Sawyer as Obadiah Strout
- Flesh and Blood as David Webster
- The Light in the Dark as Tony Pantelli
1921
- The Ace of Hearts as Farallone
- For Those We Love as Trix Ulner
- Outside the Law as Ah Wing / 'Black Mike' Sylva
- Voices of the City as O'Rourke
- Bits of Life as Chin Chow
1920
- The Penalty as Blizzard
- Nomads of the North as Raoul Challoner
- Treasure Island as Blind Pew / Merry
- The Adventures of Daredevil Jack as Royce Rivers
- The Gift Supreme as Merney Stagg
1919
- Victory as Ricardo
- The Miracle Man as The Frog
- The False Faces as Karl Eckstrom
- A Man's Country as 'Three Card' Duncan
- The Wicked Darling as Stoop Connors
- When Bearcat Went Dry as Kindard Powers
- Paid in Advance as Bateese Le Blanc
1918
- The Talk of the Town as Jack Langhorne
- That Devil, Bateese as Louis Courteau
- A Broadway Scandal as 'Kink' Colby
- The Grand Passion as Paul Argos
- Danger, Go Slow as Bud
- Riddle Gawne as Hame Bozzam
- Broadway Love as Elmer Watkins
- Fast Company as Dan McCarty
- The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin as Bethmann-Hollweg
1917
- Fires of Rebellion as Russell Hanlon
- The Flashlight as Henry Norton / Porter Brixton
- A Doll's House as Nils Krogstad
- Pay Me! as Joe Lawson
- The Scarlet Car as Paul Revere Forbes
- The Rescue as Thomas Holland
- Triumph as Paul Neihoff
- Anything Once as Waughnt Moore
- Bondage as Seducer (uncredited)
- The Girl in the Checkered Coat as Hector Maitland
- The Piper's Price as Billy Kilmartin
- The Empty Gun as Frank
- Hell Morgan's Girl as Sleter Noble
1916
- The Gilded Spider as Giovanni
- The Grasp of Greed as Jimmie
- Bobbie of the Ballet as Hook Hoover
- The Grip of Jealousy as Silas Lacey
- The Price of Silence as Edmond Stafford
- The Place Beyond the Winds as Jerry Jo
- Dolly's Scoop as Dan Fisher
- The Mark of Cain as Dick Temple
- If My Country Should Call as Dr. George Ardrath
- Tangled Hearts as John Hammond
1915
- The Sin of Olga Brandt as Stephen Leslie
- Father and the Boys as Tuck Bartholomew
- The Stool Pigeon
- Graft ... (Makeup Artist)
- The Measure of a Man as Donald MacDermott
- The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis as The Duke of Safoulrug
- A Mother's Atonement as Ben
- The Oyster Dredger
- The Millionaire Paupers as Landlord
- Stronger Than Death as Attorney
- Alas and Alack as The Fisherman and Hunchback Fate
1914
- Richelieu as Baradas
- The Forbidden Room as John Morris
- By the Sun's Rays as Frank Lawler, the Clerk
- Virtue Its Own Reward as Duncan Bronson
- Damon and Pythias as Wild Man (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
- Discord and Harmony as Lon - the Sculptor
- The Oubliette as Chevalier Bertrand de la Payne
- The Tragedy of Whispering Creek as The Greaser
- A Ranch Romance as Raphael Praz
- The End of the Feud as Wood Dawson
- The Lion, the Lamb and the Man as Fred Brown, the Lion
- A Night of Thrills as The Visitor
- The Higher Law as Sir Stephen Fitz Allen
1913
- The Restless Spirit as The Russian Count (uncredited)
- Poor Jake's Demise as The Dude
- Back to Life as The Rival