Man of a Thousand Faces

(1957)

122 minutes

Biography / Drama

Directed by Joseph Pevney

Cast:

James Cagney as Lon Chaney 
Dorothy Malone as Cleva Creighton Chaney 
Jane Greer as Hazel Bennet Chaney 
Marjorie Rambeau as Gert 
Jim Backus as Clarence Locan 
Robert Evans as Irving Thalberg  
Celia Lovsky as Mrs. Chaney 
Jeanne Cagney as Carrie Chaney 
Jack Albertson as Dr. J. Wilson Shields 
Roger Smith as Lon Creighton Chaney at 21 
Robert Lyden as Lon Creighton Chaney at 13 
Rickie Sorensen as Lon Creighton Chaney at 8 
Dennis Rush as Lon Creighton Chaney at 4 
Nolan Leary as Pa Chaney 
Simon Scott as Carl Hastings 

This biography is about the life of famed silent film actor Lon Chaney. Not everything in the film is exactly the same to his life, but it starts out with his childhood and how he grew up with deaf parents. From there he knew he was different. He used everything he knew about acting and combined it with his talent at make-up that helped him play all these different, unusual and weird characters, which made him known as the Man of a Thousand Faces.