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Lon Chaney - what members say

The Hunchback of Notre Dame review by from Middlesex

Thoroughly enjoyed! 28 February 2005
...I have to admit to having a crush on Lon Chaney ever since seeing him play two brothers, one a priest, one a thief, in The Blackbird (1926). He was without make-up for a ... Read customer review

Dickens Before Sound review by Jacuzzi from Birkenhead, England

Old Curiosities 28 February 2007
...est item at 74 minutes is Oliver Twist, featuring Jackie Coogan (as Oliver) and Lon Chaney (as Fagin), the rest of the films range from 4 - 12 minutes in length. Hopefull... Read customer review

Lon Chaney - filmography

The Unknown (1927)
Starring: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford
Director: Tod Browning
Certificate:
Alonzo is an apparently armless knife thrower who uses his feet to encircle Estrellita with blades. Zanzi is killed by Alonzo (who really does have arms). Estrellita allows herself to fall in love with Alonzo (she fears men's arms), so he goes to a hospital and has his amputated. Meantime Malabar ..read more »

72% from 43 members
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The Blackbird (1926)
Starring: Lon Chaney, Owen Moore, Renée Adorée
Director: Tod Browning
Certificate:
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.

73% from 3 members
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He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Starring: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert
Director: Victor Sjostrom
Certificate:
Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.

70% from 7 members
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame on DVD (1923)
Starring: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Ernest Torrence
Director: Wallace Worsley
Certificate:
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This silent film is the first screen version of Victor Hugo's 1831 novel. Chaney plays the deformed bell-ringer who is smitten by a beautiful dancing girl persecuted by the wicked Bishop of Notre Dame.

61% from 301 members

Dickens Before Sound (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney
Certificate:
Inspired by the popular success of Silent Shakespeare, Dickens Before Sound is a unique collection of early adaptations of perhaps Britain's favourite (and after Shakespeare) most adapted author. This selection ranges from the first extant adaptation, Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost photographed a mere ..read more »

64% from 29 members

The Phantom of the Opera - Blu-ray
Starring: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Director: Rupert Julian
Certificate:
Directed by Rupert Julian, and based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, classic horror masterpiece The Phantom of the Opera stars Lon Chaney, in one of his most grotesque performances as the crazed man without a face, who lives in the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, and falls in love with the voice of ..read more »

59% from 32 members

The Phantom of the Opera on DVD
Starring: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Director: Rupert Julian
Certificate:
Directed by Rupert Julian, and based on a novel by Gaston Leroux, classic horror masterpiece The Phantom of the Opera stars Lon Chaney, in one of his most grotesque performances as the crazed man without a face, who lives in the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, and falls in love with the voice of ..read more »

55% from 16 members

Lon Chaney facts

5 most recent films

The Unknown - 3.5 stars
The Blackbird - 3.5 stars
He Who Gets Slapped - 3.5 stars
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 3.0 stars
Dickens Before Sound - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - 3.0 stars
The Blackbird - 3.5 stars
The Unknown - 3.5 stars
He Who Gets Slapped - 3.5 stars
Dickens Before Sound - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Phantom of the Opera - 3.0 stars
The Phantom of the Opera - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Dickens Before Sound - 3.0 stars
He Who Gets Slapped - 3.5 stars
The Unknown - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Norman Kerry - 7 times - show films
Mary Philbin - 4 times - show films
Arthur Edmund Carewe - 4 times - show films
Snitz Edwards - 4 times - show films
Ernest Torrence - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Rupert Julian - 8 times - show films
Wallace Worsley - 3 times - show films
Edward Sedgwick - 2 times - show films
Tod Browning - 2 times - show films
Victor Sjostrom - 1 times - show films