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Originally posted by Tat2
I agree completely. Lon Chaney Sr. is, by far, the greatest horror film actor in history. Without him, who knows where horror would have gone. The Phantom of the Opera is his best work, followed closely by The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I wish that London After Midnight was not concidered a lost film, that would be a movie to see.
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Well, technically, Chaney Sr. wasn't any kind of horror film actor at all, because the term "horror film" wasn't invented until after his death, and even retroactively only one or two of the movies he was in can be considered horror films. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT, yes; but HUNCHBACK, no. It's a historical movie, a period piece costume drama with a disfigured bell-ringer.