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Lon Chaney (Leonidas Chaney) (April 1, 1883 Colorado Springs, Colorado – August 26, 1930) “The Man of a Thousand Faces” was the son of Colorado deaf-mutes who learned the art of mime through his parents. After a stint with his younger brother’s traveling theater, he entered motion pictures in 1912 working in one-reel comedies. He appeared in more than 100 before he joined Universal in 1914, when his career began to take off. It was with The Miracle Man (1919) that he became one of the most sought-after character actors in the industry after he strapped his legs up behind his knees to play the part of “Frog”, a fake amputee. He became famous for his incredible ─ and often painful ─ physical make-ups in such films as A Blind Bargain (1922), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), The Monster (1925), The Unholy Three (1925), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Unknown (1927), London After Midnight (1927) and West of Zanzibar (1928), most notably in collaboration with director Tod Browning. They made one sound film together, a remake of The Unholy Three (1930), before Chaney died of throat-cancer at the age of forty-seven. He was portrayed by James Cagney in the 1957 biopic Man of a Thousand Faces.
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