biography
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Chaney, Lon
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originally Alonso Chaney
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pronunciation:
[chaynee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1883–1930)
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| biography:
| Film actor, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Child of deaf-mute parents, he developed his skills as a silent-film actor by having to communicate with them. He toured as a song-and-dance man before making his first film in 1914. After the success of The Miracle Man (1919), he went on to play a series of spine-chilling grotesques such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1924) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). His skill at make-up and miming gained him the name ‘the man of a thousand faces’. He died of throat cancer right after completing his first sound film, The Unholy Three (1930). |
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