{"id":4265,"date":"2025-04-01T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2025-06-25T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:56:02","slug":"happy-birthday-lon-chaney-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/04\/happy-birthday-lon-chaney-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Lon Chaney!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">April 1, 1883 \u2013 August 26, 1930<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado; American stage and film actor, make-up artist, director and screenwriter Leonidas Frank &#8220;Lon&#8221; Chaney \u2013 renowned for his groundbreaking artistry with makeup, may be best remembered for his starring roles in such silent horror films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). CDF aficionados will recall the unforgettable visage of the \u201cMan in the Beaver Hat\u201d from the lost 1927 classic film, LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT, during the introduction of every Saturday\u2019s Creature Double Feature!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1429\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Lon-Chaney_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Lon Chaney \u2022 April 1, 1883 \u2013 August 26, 1930\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Lon-Chaney_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Lon-Chaney_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Lon-Chaney_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Lon-Chaney_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Lon-Chaney_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 1, 1883 \u2013 August 26, 1930 Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado; American stage and film actor, make-up artist, director and screenwriter Leonidas Frank &#8220;Lon&#8221; Chaney \u2013 renowned for his groundbreaking artistry with makeup, may be best remembered for his starring roles in such silent horror films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,15,7,5,6,32,9,448,450,328,329,678,16,449],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-happybirthday","tag-horror","tag-hunchbackofnotredame","tag-leonidas","tag-lonchaney","tag-londonaftermidnight","tag-makeupartist","tag-movies","tag-phantomoftheopera"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Lon-Chaney_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}