Labels:text | human face | man | person | clothing | glasses | suit | gentleman OCR: Lon Chaney 1883 - 1930 by Michael H. Price Colorado Springs-bom Lon Chaney leamed in childhood fo communicate via exaggerated mannerisms as a means of expressing himself to his deaf-and-mute parents. The stage became his calling before he was grown, and by 1912, Chaney had settled in Hollywood to commence a remarkable career of impersonating grotesque, often tragic, characters. His star turn in The Phantom of the Opera remains the definitive portrayal, as does his rendering of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. No makeup artist would have asked Chaney to contort himself so rigerously for a role, but then, Chaney was his own makeup man, and he demanded immense pain Major Genre Movie Credits of himself as a condition of immersing himself in character - an extreme antecedent, perhaps, of 1922 OliverTwist the "Method approach to acting. His character 1923 The Hunchback of Notre Dame designs routinely brought on intense physical 1925 Phantom of the Opera discomfort in distorting his features, and his very 1925 The Unholy Three body, to states that would have rendered him 1927 London After Midnight unrecognizable if not for the grand consistency of his acting style.
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