Lon Chaney
20 titles
Filmography
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He Who Gets Slapped
(1924)After losing his life's work and his wife, a man joins the circus as a clown whose gag is that he is humiliatingly slapped in the face by others.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(1923)En el París del siglo XV, Jehan, el malvado hermano del archidiácono, desea una mujer gitana llamada Esmeralda y ordena a Quasimodo que la capture.

The Penalty
(1920)A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.

The Unholy Three
(1925)After getting booted from their circus sideshow, the ventriloquist, dwarf, and strongman forge an “unholy” criminal alliance to strike it rich.

West of Zanzibar
(1928)Revenge is a dish best served cold in director Tod Browning's lurid tale of love and vengeance starring Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore and Mary Nolan. When his dying wife returns with a baby girl a year after leaving him for Crane (Barrymore), the ivory trader who crippled him, a Limehouse magician named Phroso (Chaney) vows to get even. Placing the baby in a Zanzibar brothel, Phroso spends the next 18 years living with cannibals while he waits for the child to come of age. Summoning the debauched young woman to his jungle lair, Phroso plans to reunite the girl with her long-lost father, after which he'll order the natives to kill the trader and burn Crane's daughter alive!

The Phantom of the Opera
(1925)A mad, horribly disfigured recluse holds a young opera singer captive beneath an opera house in Paris and grooms her for stardom.

Tell It to the Marines
(1926)When Skeet Burns (Haines) joins the U.S. Marines, he winds up under Sergeant O’Hara (Chaney), the toughest leatherneck in the Corps., and both men fall for Navy nurse Norma (Boardman).

The Ace of Hearts
(1921)A romantic rivalry among members of a secret anarchist society is inflamed when one of them is assigned to carry out an assassination.

The Unknown
(1927)A murderer on the run-turned-knife thrower uses a traveling circus as a hideout while seeking to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
The Blackbird
(1926)There's no honor among thieves in director Tod Browning's delirious tale of love and betrayal starring Lon Chaney, Owen Moore and Renée Adorée. A notorious Limehouse criminal, Dan Tate (Chaney) lives a double life. As feared underworld figure The Blackbird, he hides in plain sight posing as his imaginary brother, the Bishop, a kind-but-crippled preacher who runs the local mission. Infatuated with charming French music hall performer Fifi Lorraine (Adorée), Tate's affections turn to envy when she falls for West End Bertie (Moore), a handsome gentleman thief. With jealousy clouding his reason, Tate employs both his identities in a sinister scheme to destroy his rival and keep Fifi for himself.
Where East Is East
(1929)Lon Chaney hunts the most dangerous game in director Tod Browning's seamy tale of lust and revenge, costarring Lupe Velez and Estelle Taylor. When Tiger Haynes (Chaney) learns his beloved daughter Toyo (Lupe Velez) intends to marry Bobby Bailey (Lloyd Hughes), the son of an American circus owner, the Indochina-based animal trapper is skeptical at first, but soon gives his blessing. But when Bobby joins Tiger for a boat ride down the river, the young man soon falls under the seductive spell of fellow passenger Madame de Sylva (Estelle Taylor), Toyo's estranged mother and Haynes' vengeful ex-wife. So when she attempts to even the score by stealing Bobby away from their daughter, Haynes decides to take care of de Sylva by declawing the cougar once and for all.

The Monster
(1925)A missing persons case leads a clerk and amateur detective to an asylum where a mad doctor is secretly conducting experiments to resurrect the dead.
Shadows
(1922)A dying Chinese man converts to Christianity in order to stop a friend from being blackmailed.

The Trap
(1922)When his love and his gemstone mine are stolen by a carpetbagger, a once-kindly fur trapper loses himself to an insatiable drive for vengeance.

Flesh and Blood
(1922)From the 1950s when they pumped Technicolor blood into old monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula, to today's chillers like 'Let The Right One In" and "The Lady In Black", Hammer Films combined ghastly horror with erotic tension. Narrated by Peter Cushing, in his last film appearance, and Christopher Lee.

Laugh, Clown, Laugh
(1928)A professional circus clown faces tragedy and betrayal when he falls in love with the young woman he adopted as an orphaned child.
Mr. Wu
(1927)
Nomads of the North
(1920)A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves.

Outside the Law
(1921)After meeting a philosopher, a gangster and his daughter attempt to go straight - but not before they are thrown back into a life of crime by a rival.

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
(2014)A look back at the golden age of horror, including Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, and other iconic monsters from Universal Studios.