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Article: Fascinating faces of Lon Chaney.(Arts & Entertainment)(Television)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 21, 2000
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Nobody had more faces than Lon Chaney.
But a new Turner Classic Movies documentary airing Tuesday night shows that Chaney was more than the legendary "man of a thousand faces."
Having seen only three of Chaney's movies before viewing this documentary, I had the notion that he was a horror star - the silent-era equivalent of Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Robert Englund or even his son, Lon Chaney Jr.
Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, "Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces" makes the case for the importance of its subject and the value of his movies. It shows the influence that Chaney had on the art of movie acting.
The "thousand faces" moniker ...