TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Lon Chaney.
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Birthdate: April 1, 1883
Death date: August 26, 1930
Lon Chaney
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
2.6414
40
1930s
1.4369
1
1940s
No Reviews
0
1950s
2.3879
7
1960s
0.9093
2
1970s
1.1995
1
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.4182
2.4182
Lon Chaney Movie Rankings
1
3.2624On his last day as town Marshall, Will Kane hears a rumor that one of the men he put in jail is on his way to seek his revenge on the lawman. Abandoned by the town's people, Kane is forced to face the gang alone. ...more about High Noon
DVD from $3.99
(16 sellers)
2
3.1526Alonzo is an apparently armless knife thrower who uses his feet to encircle Estrellita with blades. Zanzi is killed by Alonzo (who really does have arms). ...more about Unknown
DVD from $25.59
(8 sellers)
3
3.1003At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives. ...more about Phantom of the Opera
DVD from $5.00
(9 sellers)
4
2.9195
A secret society holds a meeting to determine what to do about a powerful and dangerous man whom they have been studying closely for the past three months. They all agree that he deserves to die. ...more about Ace of Hearts
DVD from $25.59
(8 sellers)
5
2.8811
As professional clowns Tito and Simon are traveling, they happen upon an abandoned child, whom they take in and name Simonetta. When Simonetta is older, she becomes a circus performer herself. ...more about Laugh
DVD from $25.59
(8 sellers)
6
2.7126
A newlywed couple sit in a train. The husband receives a frantic telegram. He gets off at a station to make a phone call, the train pulls away without him on it, and that’s the last his wife sees of him. ...more about Alligator People
DVD from $5.70
(11 sellers)
7
2.7082
A violent criminal called The Butcher is brought back to life by a scientist using electricity. The Butcher becomes an invulnerable mute, and seeks vengeance upon those who caused his execution. ...more about Indestructible Man
DVD from $4.99
(9 sellers)
8
2.6344
Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez (Raymond Burr) kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife (Barbara Payton). ...more about Bride of the Gorilla
DVD from $4.99
(7 sellers)
9
2.5798
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were perhaps needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld. ...more about Penalty
DVD from $12.77
(9 sellers)
10
2.5258
Judith Fontaine (Regina Carrol) is looking for her sister Joanie, who has disappeared into the hippie community of Venice, California. It turns out Joanie has become the victim of Groton (Lon Chaney Jr.), an axe-wielding homicidal maniac working for Dr. ...more about Dracula vs. Frankenstein
DVD from $12.14
(4 sellers)
11
2.5058
Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. ...more about He Who Gets Slapped
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.3287
U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. ...more about Tell It to the Marines
- Not Available on DVD
14
2.3165
A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum... ...more about Monster
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.1308
Three sideshow performers leave their lives of captivity and become "The Unholy Three." Echo the ventriloquist assumes the role of a kindly old grandmother who runs a bird shop. ...more about Unholy Three
- Not Available on DVD
16
2.0547
Magician Phroso's wife Anna leaves him for another man, named Crane, who fights with Phroso and leaves him paralyzed. Later Anna returns and he finds her dead, leaving behind a daughter. ...more about West of Zanzibar
- Not Available on DVD
17
2.0342
Clopin bought Esmeralda from the gypsies when she was young. Dancing in the square at the festival, Esmeralda is spotted by Jehan, the evil brother of the good archdeacon Claude Frollo. ...more about Hunchback of Notre Dame
DVD from $1.99
(5 sellers)
18
1.9908
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thieves who befriend him for their own purposes. ...more about Oliver Twist
DVD from $10.03
(7 sellers)
20
1.8949
When Roger Balfour is found shot dead in his London home, his death is declared a suicide by Inspector Burke of Scotland Yard, even though the executor of Balfour's estate, Sir James Hamlin, insists his friend never would have taken his own life. ...more about London After Midnight
- Not Available on DVD
21
1.8721
have always been a fan of Lon Chaney, but I have never had the opportunity to see some of his early films. "Outside the Law", released in 1920 is one of his early gems.
Chaney at this time, had not yet achieved the stardom that he was to experience in a few short years. ...more about Outside the Law
DVD from $13.58
(6 sellers)
22
1.8490
Country singers on their way to Nashville have car trouble, forcing them to stop at an old haunted mansion. ...more about Hillbillys in a Haunted House
DVD from $6.97
(6 sellers)
23
1.7625
By contrast, I was relatively satisfied with THE BLACK BIRD. The plot is somewhat derivative (particularly of THE PENALTY [1920]), but Chaney is in fine form here. ...more about Blackbird
- Not Available on DVD
24
1.3333
Mr. F Gwynplaine MacIntyre from Wales, I wish you would stop writing bogus reviews about long lost silent films you HAVE not seen. Could not have seen because they are long lost. Your name keeps showing up as the only poster for missing films even this one THE BIG CITY. ...more about Big City
- Not Available on DVD
26
In pre-Revolutionary America, the efforts of a Colonial officer trying to broker a peace deal between Indian chief Pontiac and British and American settlers are threatened by the commander of a Hessian mercenary unit who embarks on a campaign of ...more about Battles of Chief Pontiac
DVD from $3.48
(4 sellers)
28
Lon Chaney performs two roles: Doctor Lamb, a mad surgeon who's doing experiments on human bodies, and his crippled and apish assistant, the result of his first experiment. ...more about Blind Bargain
- Not Available on DVD
29
Plot here has Confederate veteran Jeff Waring (John Ireland) arriving in Independence, Missouri shortly after the Civil War, and intending never again to use a gun. ...more about Bushwhackers
DVD from $4.99
(5 sellers)
35
A young girl is struck and seriously injured by a wealthy society matron's car. The woman brings the girl back to her house. ...more about Light in the Dark
- Not Available on DVD
36
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. Dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food. He meets a mysterious young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband. ...more about Mockery
- Not Available on DVD
37
Raised by his grandfather to adhere to the ancient laws of China, Mandarin Wu is a strict authoritarian. However, he is a doting father to his beautiful daughter Nang Ping. ...more about Mr. Wu
- Not Available on DVD
42
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. ...more about Shadows
DVD from $3.48
(7 sellers)
43
Mysterious, sinister Wilse Dilling receives a coded message to go to the home of Queen Ann, a powerful crime boss. When Wilse meets with her, she sends him to the town of Fallbrook, where he is to await her instructions. ...more about Shock
DVD from $3.48
(6 sellers)
47
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. ...more about Treasure Island
- Not Available on DVD
49
"Tiger" Haynes (Chaney) is a animal trapper in China who lives with his beautiful daughter, Toyo (Velez). Toyo soon becomes romantically involved with Bobby (Hughes), who turns out to be the son of one of Tiger's old friends. ...more about Where East Is East
- Not Available on DVD
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