Makeup artist Michael Blake doesn’t know why he became obsessed with Lon Chaney, but he knows how and when. He was 10 years old when he was introduced to the protean silent star by his late dad ...

A favorite 1920s joke went, "Don't step on that spider! It might be Lon Chaney." But Chaney was the first to say that makeup was not about wizardry. "It's an art, but not magic," he said.

Lon Chaney, in fact, had a thousand of them ... He also was a master of makeup, creating a gallery of unforgettable characters that no conventional Hollywood leading man would dare portray.

Actor Lon Chaney tested the boundaries of on-screen ... He once said that “the success of the makeup relied more on the placements of highlights and shadows, some not in the most obvious areas ...

For Lon Chaney, the art of acting was the art of continual ... He was so adept at changing his appearance with makeup — a trade he learned during his many years on the stage — that Chaney ...

Eighty-five years ago, moviegoers saw Lon Chaney unmasked as “The Phantom ... singer Christine Daae (portrayed by Chicago-born beauty pageant queen Mary Philbin) pulling the mask off the Old ...

Colorado Springs knew "The Man of a Thousand Faces" without his makeup. Lon Chaney would be the hideous phantom in the silent screen's "Phantom of the Opera" and the wild, fat-cheeked Quasimodo ...

5. Lon Chaney Sr. was an early makeup effects master. Dick Smith. Tom Savini. Rick Baker. These are names that are well known to monster movie fans the world over. But before makeup legend Jack ...

Seventy years ago, Lon Chaney Jr. was the face of ... lawsuit stretches back to an even earlier film era and involves some makeup. The complaint doesn’t specify exactly the products that are ...

His father was Lon Chaney, a prominent actor from the silent film era. The elder Chaney was known mostly for playing characters that required extensive makeup, many of which being characters ...

Lon Chaney was born in Colorado Springs in 1883 ... In film after film, using makeup and sometimes torturous costumes, he played the role of the outsider with conviction: strapping his shins ...

Leonidas Frank "Lon" Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930) was an American actor and makeup artist. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of cinema, renowned for his ...