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
- Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces as Self (archive footage)
- The Many Faces of Dracula 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
- Where East Is East as Tiger Haynes
- Thunder as Grumpy Anderson
- The Phantom of the Opera as Erik, The Phantom
1928
- While the City Sleeps as Dan Coghlan
- West of Zanzibar as Phroso 'Dead-Legs'
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh as Tito Beppi
- Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney as Self
- The Big City as Chuck Collins
1927
- The Unknown as Alonzo
- 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
- Life in Hollywood as Self
- Mockery as Sergei
1926
- Vårt kronprinspar i Hollywood
- Tell It to the Marines as Sergeant O'Hara
- The Road to Mandalay as Singapore Joe
- The Blackbird as Dan - The Blackbird / The Bishop
1925
- The Phantom of the Opera as Erik, The Phantom
- The Tower of Lies as Jan
- The Unholy Three as Professor Echo / Granny O'Grady
- The Monster as Dr. Ziska
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
- Quincy Adams Sawyer as Obadiah Strout
- The Trap as Gaspard the Good
- The Light in the Dark as Tony Pantelli
- Shadows as Yen Sin
- A Blind Bargain as Dr. Arthur Lamb / The Ape Man
- Flesh and Blood as David Webster
- Oliver Twist as Fagin
1921
- The Ace of Hearts as Farallone
- Voices of the City as O'Rourke
- For Those We Love as Trix Ulner
- Outside the Law as Ah Wing / 'Black Mike' Sylva
- Bits of Life as Chin Chow
1920
- Treasure Island as Blind Pew / Merry
- The Penalty as Blizzard
- Nomads of the North as Raoul Challoner
- The Adventures of Daredevil Jack as Royce Rivers
- The Gift Supreme as Merney Stagg
1919
- Victory as Ricardo
- A Man's Country as 'Three Card' Duncan
- Paid in Advance as Bateese Le Blanc
- When Bearcat Went Dry as Kindard Powers
- The Miracle Man as The Frog
- The False Faces as Karl Eckstrom
- The Wicked Darling as Stoop Connors
1918
- The Talk of the Town as Jack Langhorne
- Riddle Gawne as Hame Bozzam
- The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin as Bethmann-Hollweg
- Danger, Go Slow as Bud
- That Devil, Bateese as Louis Courteau
- Fast Company as Dan McCarty
- Broadway Love as Elmer Watkins
- The Grand Passion as Paul Argos
- A Broadway Scandal as 'Kink' Colby
1917
- Bondage as Seducer (uncredited)
- A Doll's House as Nils Krogstad
- The Piper's Price as Billy Kilmartin
- The Scarlet Car as Paul Revere Forbes
- Hell Morgan's Girl as Sleter Noble
- The Empty Gun as Frank
- Triumph as Paul Neihoff
- The Girl in the Checkered Coat as Hector Maitland
- The Rescue as Thomas Holland
- Pay Me! as Joe Lawson
- Anything Once as Waughnt Moore
- Fires of Rebellion as Russell Hanlon
- The Flashlight as Henry Norton / Porter Brixton
1916
- The Grasp of Greed as Jimmie
- Bobbie of the Ballet as Hook Hoover
- The Mark of Cain as Dick Temple
- Dolly's Scoop as Dan Fisher
- The Price of Silence as Edmond Stafford
- The Place Beyond the Winds as Jerry Jo
- The Grip of Jealousy as Silas Lacey
- If My Country Should Call as Dr. George Ardrath
- Tangled Hearts as John Hammond
- The Gilded Spider as Giovanni
1915
- Father and the Boys as Tuck Bartholomew
- A Mother's Atonement as Ben
- Graft ... (Makeup Artist)
- The Measure of a Man as Donald MacDermott
- The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis as The Duke of Safoulrug
- The Sin of Olga Brandt as Stephen Leslie
- Alas and Alack as The Fisherman and Hunchback Fate
- The Millionaire Paupers as Landlord
- The Stool Pigeon
- The Oyster Dredger
- Stronger Than Death as Attorney
1914
- By the Sun's Rays as Frank Lawler, the Clerk
- Virtue Its Own Reward as Duncan Bronson
- The Tragedy of Whispering Creek as The Greaser
- The Lion, the Lamb and the Man as Fred Brown, the Lion
- Discord and Harmony as Lon - the Sculptor
- The End of the Feud as Wood Dawson
- Richelieu as Baradas
- Damon and Pythias as Wild Man (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
- The Oubliette as Chevalier Bertrand de la Payne
- The Higher Law as Sir Stephen Fitz Allen
- A Night of Thrills as The Visitor
- The Forbidden Room as John Morris
- A Ranch Romance as Raphael Praz
1913
- Poor Jake's Demise as The Dude
- The Restless Spirit as The Russian Count (uncredited)
- Back to Life as The Rival