Lon Chaney films
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1. By the Sun's Rays (1914)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Action, Drama
A company detective goes undercover to expose a gang that uses inside information to rob gold shipments.
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Murdock MacQuarrie, Lon Chaney, Seymour Hastings, Agnes Vernon
Votes: 290
2. The Oubliette (1914)
30 min | Short, Drama, History
Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction... See full summary »
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, Lon Chaney, Doc Crane
Votes: 72
3. The Millionaire Paupers (1915)
Romance, Drama, Short
Mrs. Burne-Smith and Mrs. Winthrop have determined to make a match between their respective children regardless of the fact that the two in question have never seen each other. Mrs. ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Grace Thompson, Gretchen Lederer, Lon Chaney, Arthur Shirley
Votes: 14
4. A Mother's Atonement (1915)
Drama, Short
Old Ben Morrison and his daughter, Jen, an unsophisticated girl, live on an island not far from the mainland. Jasper Crane, middle-aged sensualist of the rougher type, bargains with Jen's ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Cleo Madison, Lon Chaney, Arthur Shirley, Wyndham Standing
Votes: 26
5. If My Country Should Call (1916)
50 min | Drama
A pacifist mother tries to protect her son, whose patriotism makes him want to enlist in the army. Her uncle, a doctor, has invented a heart medication which mimics heart disease. Just a drop or ten in her son's drink should keep him home.
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Dorothy Phillips, Helen Leslie, Frank Whitson, Lon Chaney
Votes: 27
6. The Place Beyond the Winds (1916)
50 min | Drama
Priscilla Glenn is a product of the woods, a wild, impulsive, nature-loving child. Her father is her antithesis, seeing none of the beauties of nature, thinking women only creatures to be ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Dorothy Phillips, Jack Mulhall, Lon Chaney, Joseph De Grasse
Votes: 41
7. The Scarlet Car (1917)
60 min | Drama
After discovering that Cyrus Peabody, the president of the bank, and his son Ernest have embezzled $35,000, their cashier, Paul Revere Forbes, threatens to expose them. In a rage, the two ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Franklyn Farnum, Edith Johnson, Lon Chaney, Sam De Grasse
Votes: 133
8. The False Faces (1919)
96 min | Drama, War
During World War I, a professional thief known as The Lone Wolf is assigned to steal a cylinder with important information from behind the German lines and bring it to Allied intelligence ... See full summary »
Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Henry B. Walthall, Mary Anderson, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross
Votes: 117
9. The Miracle Man (1919)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
A gang consisting of the Frog, who can dislocate his limbs; the Dope, a drug addict; Rose, who poses as the Dope's brutalized mistress; and Burke, the leader; prey on the sympathies and ... See full summary »
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson, Lon Chaney, J.M. Dumont
Votes: 256 | Gross: $3.00M
10. Victory (1919)
Not Rated | 62 min | Drama, Romance
Axel Heyst, an uncommitted wanderer, has settled on an island in the South Seas. He takes pity on a troubled young woman, Lena, and gives her refuge on her island. But the piratical Mr. ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Jack Holt, Seena Owen, Wallace Beery, Ben Deeley
Votes: 463
11. The Wicked Darling (1919)
59 min | Drama, Crime
A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Wellington A. Playter, Lon Chaney, Spottiswoode Aitken
Votes: 481
12. The Gift Supreme (1920)
Drama
Bradford Vinton falls in love with a girl singer from the slums, but his father made plans to break the friendship.When his plans fail he disinherit his son. One day Bradford is stabbed by ... See full summary »
Director: Oliver L. Sellers | Stars: Bernard J. Durning, Seena Owen, Melbourne MacDowell, Tully Marshall
Votes: 27
13. The Penalty (1920)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney
Votes: 2,631
14. Nomads of the North (1920)
109 min | Drama
A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves.
Director: David Hartford | Stars: Lon Chaney, Lewis Stone, Melbourne MacDowell, Spottiswoode Aitken
Votes: 293
15. Outside the Law (1920)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
In this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity, starring as Ah Wing, a kind-hearted student of Confucian ... See full summary »
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney, Ralph Lewis
Votes: 742
16. The Ace of Hearts (1921)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society becomes even tenser when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Leatrice Joy, John Bowers, Lon Chaney, Hardee Kirkland
Votes: 1,327
17. The Trap (1922)
60 min | Drama
A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
Director: Robert Thornby | Stars: Lon Chaney, Alan Hale, Dagmar Godowsky, Stanley Goethals
Votes: 237
18. Flesh and Blood (1922)
Passed | 74 min | Drama
A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Lon Chaney, Edith Roberts, Noah Beery, DeWitt Jennings
Votes: 233
19. The Light in the Dark (1922)
70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Poor Bessie MacGregor is struck by the automobile of wealthy Mrs. Templeton Orrin and is taken home to live with her. But Bessie leaves when Mrs. Orrin's brother, J. Warburton Ashe, trifles... See full summary »
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Hope Hampton, E.K. Lincoln, Lon Chaney, Theresa Maxwell Conover
Votes: 184
20. Oliver Twist (I) (1922)
Passed | 98 min | Drama
An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Jackie Coogan, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Lewis Sargent
Votes: 942 | Gross: $4.36M
21. Shadows (1922)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
A dying Chinese man converts to Christianity in order to stop a friend from being blackmailed.
Director: Tom Forman | Stars: Lon Chaney, Marguerite De La Motte, Harrison Ford, John St. Polis
Votes: 490
22. The Shock (1923)
Passed | 96 min | Drama
A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Lon Chaney, Virginia Valli, Jack Mower, William Welsh
Votes: 545
23. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (I) (1923)
Passed | 133 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
In 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with a gypsy dancer.
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester
Votes: 6,105 | Gross: $2.22M
24. He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
95 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King
Votes: 4,296 | Gross: $0.19M
25. The Monster (1925)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A meek clerk who doubles as an amateur detective investigates some very strange goings-on at a remote mental sanitarium.
Director: Roland West | Stars: Lon Chaney, Gertrude Olmstead, Hallam Cooley, Johnny Arthur
Votes: 1,365
26. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Passed | 93 min | Horror
A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
Directors: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe
Votes: 20,118 | Gross: $3.75M
27. The Unholy Three (1925)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A sideshow ventriloquist, a midget, and a strongman form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" and commit a series of robberies.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen
Votes: 2,216 | Gross: $0.70M
28. The Blackbird (1926)
Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Owen Moore, Renée Adorée, Doris Lloyd
Votes: 908 | Gross: $0.25M
29. Tell It to the Marines (1926)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A gruff Marine sergeant and a handsome new recruit compete for the affection of a nurse.
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman, Eddie Gribbon
Votes: 1,621 | Gross: $0.74M
30. Mr. Wu (1927)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Lon Chaney, Louise Dresser, Renée Adorée, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 712 | Gross: $0.47M
31. The Unknown (1927)
Unrated | 68 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz
Votes: 9,171 | Gross: $0.41M
32. Mockery (1927)
75 min | Drama, Romance
During the Russian Revolution, a mentally challenged peasant saves then obsesses over a beautiful countess.
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Lon Chaney, Ricardo Cortez, Barbara Bedford, Mack Swain
Votes: 541 | Gross: $0.45M
33. London After Midnight (1927)
Passed | 69 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Percy Williams
Votes: 1,467 | Gross: $0.52M
34. Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
Passed | 73 min | Drama
A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young, Cissy Fitzgerald
Votes: 2,148
35. West of Zanzibar (1928)
TV-G | 65 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter
Votes: 1,964 | Gross: $0.92M
36. Where East Is East (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
When an animal trapper in Indo-China finds that his daughter's fiancé is being successfully seduced by her estranged mother, he takes appropriate action.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Lupe Velez, Estelle Taylor, Lloyd Hughes
Votes: 724
37. The Unholy Three (1930)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Professor Echo, a ventriloquist, forms a burglary ring. He disguises himself as an elderly pet store owner selling talking birds to the wealthy, using his skills to make the birds seem to talk while casing the homes for robberies.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent, Harry Earles
Votes: 1,405
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