A biographical stage musical based on Chaney's life, titled A Thousand Faces: The Lon Chaney Musical, debuted at The Encore Musical Theatre Company, based in Dexter, Michigan
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Figure timeline
Lon Chaney
Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney was an American actor and makeup artist. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted, characters and for his groundbreaking artistry with makeup. Chaney was known for his starring roles in such silent horror films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Pha…
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
entertainment · American actor (1883–1930) · actor · film director · stage actor · screenwriter · film actor · make-up artist · director · writer · also Lon Chaney, Lon Chaney, Sr., The Man of a Thousand Faces, Leonidas Chaney, Chaney
Born 1 April 1883 · Died 26 August 1930 · Q312656
13 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
14 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Quote
I wanted to remind people that the lowest types of humanity may have within them the capacity for supreme self-sacrifice. The dwarfed, misshapen beggar of the streets may have the noblest ideals. Most of my roles since The Hunchback, such as The Phantom of the Opera, He Who Gets Slapped, The Unholy Three, etc., have carried the theme of self-sacrifice or renunciation. These are the stories which I wish to do.
2022· 1 entry
1994· 1 entry
Al Hirschfeld's caricature of Chaney was featured on a commemorative United States postage stamp
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1957· 1 entry
Chaney was the subject of a biopic titled Man of a Thousand Faces, in which he was portrayed by James Cagney
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1930· 1 entry
Died 1930-08-26.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
1929· 1 entry
Chaney built a stone cabin in the remote wilderness of the eastern Sierra Nevada near Big Pine, California as a retreat, hiring architect Paul R
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1925· 1 entry
“I wanted to remind people that the lowest types of humanity may have within them the capacity for supreme self-sacrifice. The dwarfed, misshapen beggar of the streets may have the noblest ideals. Most of my roles since The Hunchback, such as The Phantom of the Opera, He Who Gets Slapped, The Unholy Three, etc., have carried the theme of self-sacrifice or renunciation. These are the stories which I wish to do.”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
1915· 1 entry
Chaney married one of his former colleagues in the Kolb and Dill company, a recently divorced chorus girl named Hazel Hastings
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1913· 1 entry
Cleva went to the Majestic Theatre, where Lon was managing the "Kolb and Dill", and tried to commit suicide by swallowing mercuric chloride
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1906· 1 entry
Their only child, son Creighton Tull Chaney (later known as Lon Chaney Jr
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1905· 1 entry
Chaney, then 22, met and married 16-year-old singer Cleva Creighton (Frances Cleveland Creighton)
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1902· 1 entry
When he was 19, and began traveling with popular vaudeville and theater acts
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1883· 1 entry
Born 1883-04-01.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth
1874· 1 entry
And Chaney's parents met there
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event