Birthday:
Mar 31, 1883
Place of Birth: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Place of Birth: Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Lon Chaney
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
| Movie | Cast | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Phantom of the Opera | Erik, The Phantom | 1925 |
| The Unknown | Alonzo | 1927 |
| The Monster | Dr. Ziska | 1925 |
| Laugh, Clown, Laugh | Tito Beppi | 1928 |
| A Blind Bargain | Dr. Arthur Lamb / The Ape Man | 1922 |
| The Penalty | Blizzard | 1920 |
| The Unholy Three | Professor Echo / Granny O'Grady | 1925 |
| West of Zanzibar | Phroso 'Dead-Legs' | 1928 |
| He Who Gets Slapped | Paul Beaumont | 1924 |
| The Unholy Three | Professor Echo / Grandma O'Grady | 1930 |
| While Paris Sleeps | Henri Santodos | 1923 |
| Damon and Pythias | Wild Man (uncredited) (unconfirmed) | 1914 |
| The Horror Show | (archive footage) | 1979 |
| The Ace of Hearts | Farallone | 1921 |
| Fast Company | Dan McCarty | 1918 |
| Bondage | Seducer (uncredited) | 1917 |
| The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute | Self (archive footage) | 1974 |
| Yesterday and Today | (archive footage) | 1953 |
| London After Midnight | Professor Edward C. Burke | 1927 |
| Shadows | Yen Sin | 1922 |
| Poor Jake's Demise | The Dude | 1913 |
| Discord and Harmony | Lon - the Sculptor | 1914 |
| The End of the Feud | Wood Dawson | 1914 |
| A Ranch Romance | Raphael Praz | 1914 |
| The Stool Pigeon | 1915 | |
| The Measure of a Man | Donald MacDermott | 1915 |
| The Oyster Dredger | 1915 | |
| For Those We Love | Trix Ulner | 1921 |
| A Man's Country | 'Three Card' Duncan | 1919 |
| Quincy Adams Sawyer | Obadiah Strout | 1922 |
| Life in Hollywood No. 3 | Self | 1927 |
| The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Quasimodo | 1923 |
| The Road to Mandalay | Singapore Joe | 1926 |
| Mockery | Sergei | 1927 |
| The Ways of Fate | 1913 | |
| Mr. Wu | Mr. Wu / Wu's Grandfather | 1927 |
| Alas and Alack | The Fisherman and Hunchback Fate | 1915 |
| The Blackbird | Dan - The Blackbird / The Bishop | 1926 |
| The Wicked Darling | Stoop Connors | 1919 |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Erik | 1929 |
| The Scarlet Car | Paul Revere Forbes | 1917 |
| The Shock | Wilse Dilling | 1923 |
| The Light in the Dark | Tony Pantelli | 1922 |
| Outside the Law | Ah Wing / 'Black Mike' Sylva | 1921 |
| Flesh and Blood | David Webster | 1922 |
| Where East Is East | Tiger Haynes | 1929 |
| The Many Faces of Dracula | Self (archive footage) | 2000 |
| While the City Sleeps | Dan Coghlan | 1928 |
| When Bearcat Went Dry | Kindard Powers | 1919 |
| Victory | Ricardo | 1919 |
| The Oubliette | Chevalier Bertrand de la Payne | 1914 |
| By the Sun's Rays | Frank Lawler, the Clerk | 1914 |
| The False Faces | Karl Eckstrom | 1919 |
| Nomads of the North | Raoul Challoner | 1920 |
| The Trap | Gaspard the Good | 1922 |
| They Came from the Attic | The Phantom of the Opera (Archival Footage) | 2022 |
| Mabel and Bill Dumphy's visit with Hazel & Lon Chaney | Self | 1928 |
| The Restless Spirit | The Russian Count (uncredited) | 1913 |
| Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film | The Phantom / Quasimodo (archive footage) | 2014 |
| Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary | Self (archive footage) | 1945 |
| Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) | Self (archive footage) | 1942 |
| The Empty Gun | Frank | 1917 |
| Tell It to the Marines | Sergeant O'Hara | 1926 |
| The Tower of Lies | Jan | 1925 |
| The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin | Bethmann-Hollweg | 1918 |
| The House That Shadows Built | (archive footage) | 1931 |
| The Miracle Man | The Frog | 1919 |
| The Horror of It All | The Phantom (archive footage) | 1983 |
| Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman | Self (archive footage) | 2007 |
| The Mark of Cain | Dick Temple | 1916 |
| The Millionaire Paupers | Landlord | 1915 |
| Oliver Twist | Fagin | 1922 |
| London After Midnight | Professor Edward C. Burke (archive footage) | 2002 |
| Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask | Self (archive footage) | 1995 |
| Treasure Island | Blind Pew / Merry | 1920 |
| Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films | Himself (archive footage) | 2011 |
| Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire | Himself (archive footage) | 2007 |
| The Gift Supreme | Merney Stagg | 1920 |
| The Forbidden Room | John Morris | 1914 |
| The Tragedy of Whispering Creek | The Greaser | 1914 |
| The Adventures of Daredevil Jack | Royce Rivers | 1920 |
| Back to Life | The Rival | 1913 |
| The Big City | Chuck Collins | 1928 |
| Thunder | Grumpy Anderson | 1929 |
| A Night of Thrills | The Visitor | 1914 |
| The Sin of Olga Brandt | Stephen Leslie | 1915 |
| Voices of the City | O'Rourke | 1921 |
| Triumph | Paul Neihoff | 1917 |
| A Messenger from the Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01) | 2013 | |
| Richelieu | Baradas | 1914 |
| All the Brothers Were Valiant | Mark Shore | 1923 |
| The Next Corner | Juan Serafin | 1924 |
| Broadway Love | Elmer Watkins | 1918 |
| If My Country Should Call | Dr. George Ardrath | 1916 |
| The Place Beyond the Winds | Jerry Jo | 1916 |
| A Mother's Atonement | Ben | 1915 |
| Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces | Self (archive footage) | 2000 |
| Hell Morgan's Girl | Sleter Noble | 1917 |
| Anything Once | Waughnt Moore | 1917 |
| Fires of Rebellion | Russell Hanlon | 1917 |
| Bobbie of the Ballet | Hook Hoover | 1916 |
| The Piper's Price | Billy Kilmartin | 1917 |
| The Grasp of Greed | Jimmie | 1916 |
| The Gilded Spider | Giovanni | 1916 |
| The Price of Silence | Edmond Stafford | 1916 |
| A Doll's House | Nils Krogstad | 1917 |
| A Broadway Scandal | 'Kink' Colby | 1918 |
| The Rescue | Thomas Holland | 1917 |
| The Flashlight | Henry Norton / Porter Brixton | 1917 |
| Danger, Go Slow | Bud | 1918 |
| The Grand Passion | Paul Argos | 1918 |
| Pay Me! | Joe Lawson | 1917 |
| The Girl in the Checkered Coat | Hector Maitland | 1917 |
| Lon Chaney: Son of a Thousand Faces | (archive footage) | 1995 |
| Riddle Gawne | Hame Bozzam | 1918 |
| Paid in Advance | Bateese Le Blanc | 1919 |
| Nadie inquietó más | Various Roles (archive footage) | 2008 |
| That Devil, Bateese | Louis Courteau | 1918 |
| The Talk of the Town | Jack Langhorne | 1918 |
| Bits of Life | Chin Chow | 1921 |
| Tangled Hearts | John Hammond | 1916 |
| The Grip of Jealousy | Silas Lacey | 1916 |
| Universal Horror | (archive footage) | 1998 | Series | Cast | Year |
