Trigger Warning: The following includes references to suicide. Hollywood's silent film beginnings launched the careers of legendary actors, the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Mary ...

Quick pop quiz: What do Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, The Wolf Man, and The Mummy all have in common? If you said "Universal Studios," that is indeed one of the things they have in common, as the ...

He was called “the man of 1000 faces.” Lon Chaney was born in Colorado Springs in 1883. The child of deaf parents and grandson of the founder of the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind, Chaney ...

Jack Pierce working on his design for The Wolf Man - Courtesy of Scott Essman Lon Chaney Jr did not enjoy transforming into the Wolf Man. The actor – who played the cursed monster in the 1941 original ...

Lon Chaney stars as Quasimodo in the classic silent film version of 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' (1923), a silent thriller to be screened with live music on Sunday, Jan. 28 at 2 p.m. at the Colonial ...

From left, actors Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Glenn Strange, Lon Chaney Jr. and Bela Lugosi in “Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein." The 1948 film will be screened Friday night at the Omaha Community ...

“Gruesome and at times shocking” as well as “anything but a pleasant story,” according to the 1927 New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall, “The Unknown” stars Lon Chaney as Alonzo the Armless, a ...

Known as “The Man of a Thousand Faces,” Chaney was in high demand as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood—renowned for his incredible physical transformations and unique ability to captivate ...