Lon Chaney, Sr.

Lon Chaney, Sr.

Lon Chaney, Sr. news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Lon Chaney, Sr. performances. According to Wikipedia: Lon Chaney, Sr., nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces", was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was... [more]

Lon Chaney, Sr. news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Lon Chaney, Sr. performances. According to Wikipedia: Lon Chaney, Sr., nicknamed "The Man of a Thousand Faces", was an American actor during the age of silent films. He was one of the most versatile and powerful character actors of the early cinema. He is best remembered for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters, and his groundbreaking artistry with film makeup.

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Written by Deltapdawn on
Some people may not consider The Phantom of the Opera a Halloween horror movie (especially if they have only seen the 2004 version.) However, back in 1925, Lon Chaney made a slient version of Phantom of the Opera and if this isn't a scarry Halloween monster then I don't know what is. The tag line when this movie was released was, "The greatest horror film of modern cinema!" Today's digital scrapbooking freebie uses Chaney's image from the 1925 film and the "logo" from the 2004 version. Here is the Phantom of the Opera Template . By the way, the Lon Chaney in this template ... Read Full Story
Written by skinnyrydell on
Before he launched the first horror boom with Dracula (1931) and made the all-time cult classic Freaks (1932), director Tod Browning made a series of silent melodramas with decidedly macabre overtones. Many of them, including The Unholy Three (1925), The Road to Mandalay (1926) and London After Midnight (1927), starred genre legend Lon Chaney, and possibly the best of these is The Unknown (1927), a dark tale of obsession and sexual frigidity that takes one of the most twisted turns in film history. The Unknown tells the story of Alonzo (Chaney), an armless knife thrower in a traveling circus who is secretly in love ... Read Full Story
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