Lon Chaney
American actor (1883-1930) · United States · Actors · Died at 47
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Something wrong?He made himself unrecognizable before CGI existed - contorting his body, wiring his eyes open, building faces from greasepaint and fish skin. Silent horror's first true monster, and the man inside every mask.
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Filmography 40
TNThe American Nightmare
DFDracula vs. Frankenstein
SBSpider Baby
WTWelcome to Hard Times
HHHillbillys in a Haunted House
TPThe Haunted Palace
TPThe Alligator People
TOThe Defiant Ones
PAPardners
IMIndestructible Man
TSThe Black Sleep
TFThe Indian Fighter
NSNot as a Stranger
ITI Died a Thousand Times
HNHigh Noon
SRSpringfield Rifle
TCThe Black Castle
OVOnly the Valiant
BGBride of the Gorilla
BFBud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein
MBMy Favorite Brunette
HDHouse of Dracula
HEHere Come the Co-Eds
HFHouse of Frankenstein
TCThe Mummy's Curse
TGThe Mummy's Ghost
CWCobra Woman
WWWeird Woman
FMFrankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
SDSon of Dracula
TFThe Ghost of Frankenstein
TTThe Mummy's Tomb
TMThe Wolf Man
MMMan-Made Monster
NPNorth West Mounted Police
OCOne Million B.C.
JJJesse James
OMOf Mice and Men
UPUnion Pacific
ABAlexander's Ragtime Band232 credits on file
Television 24
TMThe Monkees
TCThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
RORoute 66
SUSurfside 6
RARawhide
APAdventures in Paradise
TDThe Deputy
LULock-Up
TRThe Rifleman
WAWanted: Dead or Alive
LALawman
BMBat Masterson
TTThe Texan
WTWagon Train
HTHave Gun, Will Travel
TTTombstone Territory
DTDick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TTTelephone Time
CLClimax!
STStudio 57
TSThe Red Skelton Show
TTTales of Tomorrow
THThe Colgate Comedy Hour
TSThe Ed Sullivan ShowAwards
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Leonidas Frank Chaney was born April 1, 1883, and spent the silent era proving that transformation was an art form. He developed makeup techniques no one had seen, earning the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Faces" by becoming characters so tortured and grotesque that audiences forgot the actor underneath. The starring turns that defined him came in 1923's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and 1925's The Phantom of the Opera - roles that demanded he disappear into affliction and disfigurement. His power wasn't just in the prosthetics but in the humanity he found inside them. Chaney died August 26, 1930, and every film he made now sits in the public domain, free to watch.
Actors from the United States 6
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