Biography: life and films
Lon Chaney was an American actor, film director and screenwriter whose birth name was Leonidas Frank Chaney. He was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA on 1st April 1883 and died in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA on 26th August 1930, aged 47.His best films as an actor include Rupert Julian's thriller The Phantom of the Opera (1925), George W. Hill's Tell It to the Marines (1926), Tod Browning's The Unknown (1927), West of Zanzibar (1928) and Bret Wood's Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask (1996), and whose best work as a film director include For Cash (1915) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925).
Lon Chaney appeared in 138 films, directed 7 films (including 6 shorts) and scripted 4 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Joseph De Grasse (55 films), Tod Browning (10), Ida May Park (6), Wallace Worsley (5), (5), Maurice Tourneur (3), Charles Giblyn (3), Allan Dwan (3), William Nigh (2), Victor Sjöström (2), Rupert Julian (2), Oliver L. Sellers (2), Jack Conway (2), Irvin Willat (2) and Allen Holubar (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (106 films), romance (17), Western (9), comedy (7), Thriller (7), Horror (7), history (6), comedy-drama (6), crime-thriller (2), comedy-romance (2), War (2) and Documentary (2).
Our average rating for Lon Chaney over all films is: 2.4
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
Damon and Pythias (1914) [a]
Richelieu (1914) [a]
Bound on the Wheel (1915) [a]
Father and the Boys (1915) [a]
Bobbie of the Ballet (1916) [a]
If My Country Should Call (1916) [a]
Tangled Hearts (1916) [a]
The Gilded Spider (1916) [a]
The Grasp of Greed (1916) [a]
The Grip of Jealousy (1916) [a]
The Mark of Cain (1916) [a]
The Place Beyond the Winds (1916) [a]
The Price of Silence (1916) [a]
Anything Once (1917) [a]
Bondage (1917) [a]
Fires of Rebellion (1917) [a]
Hell Morgan's Girl (1917) [a]
Pay Me! (1917) [a]
The Flashlight (1917) [a]
The Girl in the Checkered Coat (1917) [a]
The Piper's Price (1917) [a]
The Rescue (1917) [a]
The Scarlet Car (1917) [a]
Triumph (1917) [a]
A Broadway Scandal (1918) [a]
Broadway Love (1918) [a]
Danger, Go Slow (1918) [a]
Fast Company (1918) [a]
Riddle Gawne (1918) [a]
That Devil, Bateese (1918) [a]
The Grand Passion (1918) [a]
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918) [a]
The Talk of the Town (1918) [a]
A Man's Country (1919) [a]
Paid in Advance (1919) [a]
The False Faces (1919) [a]
The Miracle Man (1919) [a]
The Wicked Darling (1919) [a]
Victory (1919) [a]
When Bearcat Went Dry (1919) [a]
Daredevil Jack (1920) [a]
Nomads of the North (1920) [a]
Outside the Law (1920) [a]
The Gift Supreme (1920) [a]
The Penalty (1920) [a]
Treasure Island (1920) [a]
Bits of Life (1921) [a]
For Those We Love (1921) [a]
Voices of the City (1921) [a]
A Blind Bargain (1922) [a]
Flesh and Blood (1922) [a]
Oliver Twist (1922) [a]
Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922) [a]
Shadows (1922) [a]
The Trap (1922) [a,w]
All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923) [a]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) [a]
The Shock (1923) [a]
While Paris Sleeps (1923) [a]
He Who Gets Slapped (1924) [a]
The Next Corner (1924) [a]
The Monster (1925) [a]
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) [a,d]
The Tower of Lies (1925) [a]
The Unholy Three (1925) [a]
Tell It to the Marines (1926) [a]
The Blackbird (1926) [a]
The Road to Mandalay (1926) [a]
London After Midnight (1927) [a]
Mockery (1927) [a]
Mr. Wu (1927) [a]
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) [a]
The Big City (1928) [a]
While the City Sleeps (1928) [a]
Thunder (1929) [a]
Where East Is East (1929) [a]
The Unholy Three (1930) [a]
Hollywood Story (1951) [a]
Lon Chaney: Behind the Mask (1996) [a]
The very best of the French New Wave
The very best period film dramas
Kafka's tortuous trial of love
