The Lon Chaney Home Page: What's New?

May 2022

• Added or upgraded stills to filmography listings for The Measure of a Man (1915), Stronger Than Death (1915), Anything Once (1917), Fast Company (1918), Bobbie of the Ballet (1916), The Oubliette (1914), Triumph (1917), Where the Forest Ends (1915) and The Scarlet Car (1917). (5/26)
• Updated filmography entries for Pay Me (1917), The Mark of Cain (1916) and The Empty Gun (1917) indicating that print material had been found. (5/26)
• Added a link to a Trailer for Lon Chaney Before the 1000 Faces video release. (5/26)

September 2018

• Updated Unidentified Still Page to indicate that Unidentified Still #13 has been identified. (9/25)

August 2018

• Added a link to my Library of Congress talk on Survival of Lon Chaney's Teens Universal Silents (8/23)
• Updated filmography entry for Virtue Its Own Reward (1914) with information that a small fragment was found. (8/23)
• Added additional comments to Unidentified Still Page for Unidentified Still #5. (8/7)
• Added stills to filmography listings for The Millionaire Paupers (1915), Broadway Love (1918) and A Man's Country (1919). (8/7)
• Upgraded quality of photo for the filmography entry of Almost an Actress (1913) and Star of the Sea (1915) (8/7)

November 2017

• Added a photo to Poor Jake's Demise (1913, Universal/Imp) (11/26)
• Moved Suspense (1913, Universal/Rex) from the filmography to The Not Lon Chaney Filmography and added two photos to it (11/256)
• Added a photo to Bondage (1917, Universal) in the The Not Lon Chaney Filmography(11/26)
• Added a better photo to The Piper's Price (1917) (11/26)
• Added a better photo to A Doll's House (1917) (11/26)
• Updated The Lion, the Lamb, and the Man (1914) to indicate that film now survives and to add a news clipping related to the film (11/26)
• Added a news clipping related to the film to An Idyll of the Hills (1915) (11/26)
• Added a note to Tangled Hearts (1916) indicating that a small fragment survives (11/26)
• Added a note to The Price of Silence (1916) indicating that the film survives at Archives du Film du CNC (11/26)
• Added a note to A Man's Country (1919) indicating that the film survives at the Danish Film Institute (11/26)
• Added notes to The Grasp of Greed (1916) based on a recent screening of the film (11/26)
• Added a photo to The Girl of the Night (1915) (11/26)
• Added glass slides for Flesh and Blood The Next Corner and The Trap to the Memorabilia Page (11/26)
• Added The Mark of Cain magazine ad art, The Grasp of Greed lobby card #1 and #2 to the Poster Gallery page (11/26)
• Updated my Who Am I link (11/26)
• Added a link to All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923) indicating that a small fragment of the film had been found. (11/26)

March, 2014

• Upgraded quality of photo for The Unlawful Trade (1914) (3/9)

January, 2014

• Added photos to filmography entries for Red Margaret, Moonshiner (1913), A Mother's Atonement (1915) and If My Country Should Call(1916) (1/1)

December, 2013

• Made some minor edits and corrections on the Unidentified Still Page (12/31)
Added a link to my interview on The Commentary Track (12/31)
• Added photos to the filmography entries for The Unlawful Trade (1914), Her Bounty (1914), The Higher Law (1914) and Lights and Shadows (1914)(12/25)

August, 2013

• Updated the notes on Unidentified Still #17 on the Unidentified Still Page to indicate that this is The Threads of Fate (1915) (8/3)
• Added a photo for the filmography entry for The Threads of Fate (1915) (8/3)
• Added glass slides of Daredevil Jack and The Kaiser the Beast of Berlin to the Memorabilia Page (8/3)
• Added a poster for The Tragedy of Whispering Creek to the Poster Gallery page. (8/3)
• Added a photo to the filmography entry for The Place Beyond the Winds (1916) (8/3)
• Added a better photo to the filmography entry for The Scarlet Car (1917) (8/3)

March, 2013

• Added or updated photos for the filmography entries for The Blood Red Tape of Charity (1913), Back to Life (1913), Discord and Harmony (1914), The Embezzler (1914), Her Grave Mistake (1914), Richelieu (1914), Virtue Its Own Reward (1914), The Sin of Olga Brandt (1915), Star of the Sea (1915), The Small Town Girl (1915), The Measure of a Man (1915), The Desert Breed (1915), The Grind (1915), The Stool Pigeon (1915), An Idyl of the Hills (1915), The Oyster Dredger (1915), Alas and Alack (1915), A Mother's Atonement (1915), Danger--Go Slow (1918) and The False Faces (1919) (3/1)
• Updated the notes on Unidentified Still #5 on the Unidentified Still Page (3/1)
• Added lobby cards or posters for Back to Life, Her Grave Mistake, Discord and Harmony, The Oyster Dredger, Richelieu and The False Faces, to the Poster Gallery page. (3/1)

February, 2013

• Added a second photo to the filmography entries for The Restless Spirit (1913) and a photo to A Ranch Romance (1914) (2/3)
• Added lobby cards for Danger Go Slow, The Miracle Man, The Penalty, The Night Rose (Voices of the City), The Trap (1922), Quincy Adams Sawyer, The Light in the Dark, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Thunder to the Poster Gallery page. (2/3)
• Made some minor corrections and additions to the Lon Chaney Still Codes list. (2/3)
• Added The Trey o' Hearts (1914, Universal/Gold Seal) to the filmography page. (2/3)
Updated the notes on Unidentified Still #21 on the Unidentified Still Page to indicate that this is probably not Lon Chaney (2/3)

January, 2013

• Added photographs to filmography entries for By the Sun's Rays (1914) and Lon of Lone Mountain (1915), added a poster for The Lamb, the Woman, the Wolf (1914), and added a better picture for Paid in Advance (1919) (1/3)
• Added several glass slides to the Memorabilia Page (1/3)
• Identified mystery photo #19 on the Unidentified Still Page as The Restless Spirit (1913)(1/3)
• Added a new unidentified still (#21) on the Unidentified Still Page (1/3)
• Added a note to the filmography entry for The Tragedy of Whispering Creek (1914) to indicate that a print has been found (1/3)
• Removed several dead links and updated new links on my home page (1/3)
• Identified mystery photo #6 on the Unidentified Still Page as All for Peggy (1915) (1/4)
• Updated my Who Am I link (1/4)
• Updated my policy statement on purchasing Lon Chaney Films on Video (1/4)

October, 2008

• Completely overhauled the Robert Semler Portrait Page to add many new Chaney paintings by noted artist Robert Semler (10/1)

September, 2008

• Added The Price of Silence magazine art, Fires Of Rebellion lobby card, The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin program cover, While Paris Sleeps ad art, and The Shock ad art
to the Poster Gallery page. (9/12)
• Added notes about the remake to the filmography entry of All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923) (9/12)
• Added a program cover for The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin to the Poster Gallery (9/12)
• Added pictures to filmography entries for Shon the Piper (1913), The Forbidden Room (1914), The Old Cobbler (1914), The Small Town Girl (1915), The Grasp of Greed (1916), The Mark of Cain (1916)(9/15), Triumph (1917) and Paid in Advance (1919)(9/12)
• I moved the entire site from members.aol.com/ChaneyFan to its new home at lonchaney.org. In the course of moving this over I made a large number of edits and adjustments that are too numerous to list here, but none made substantive changes to the structure of the site. The primary change is that I rescanned every photo to be larger and higher resolution. (9/12)

August, 2008

• Updated listing for Poor Jakes Demise (1913) to indicate that a print has now been found! (8/15)

July, 2008

• Added link to Dr. Maero's Lon Chaney Page (7/29)

September, 2007

• Updated the Penalty Puppet Page to include a link to the artist's web page, BillNelsonStudios.com (9/16)

June, 2006

• Fixed new link to Lon Chaney Cabin. (6/18)

June, 2005

• Consolidated photos into a single directory. You won't notice any differences except there should now be fewer problems with broken picture links. (6/12)

June, 2004

• Added a link to the Star Bar Players at the Lon Chaney Theater (6/27)

May, 2004

• Fixed broken link to Lon Chaney's Cabin (5/24)

March, 2004

• Added production cost information to the filmography entry for When Bearcat Went Dry (1919) (3/28)
• Added new information to the filmography entry for The Trap (1913) (3/27)
• Added additional alternate titles to The Not Lon Chaney Filmography (3/27)

October, 2003

• Added a review of the Lon Chaney Collection DVD Box Set (10/29)
• Updated my Who Am I link (10/23)
• Update the Acknowledgments link (10/23)
• Updated the link to my London After Midnight Article in Spanish (10/23)

September, 2003

• Added The Not Lon Chaney Filmography (9/4)
• Deleted dead links to The Silents Majority (9/4)
• Made many updates to Jon's Film Sites (9/4)

May, 2002

• Added a link to a London After Midnight Article in Spanish from my filmography page (5/20)
• Fixed link to update Bruce Calvert's Still ID Page (5/20)

April, 2002

• Put back the recently returned link to London After Midnight Video Sources page. (4/1)
• Added a new entry (#20) to the Unidentified Still Page (4/1)
• Added new filmography entries for unbilled appearances in Shon the Piper (1913) and The Restless Spirit (1913) (4/1)
• Added a new filmography entry for Heartstrings (1914) (4/1)
• Added additional cast members to The Trap (1913) (4/1)
• Added a review to Almost an Actress (1913) (4/1)
• Added information on reissues to Bloodhounds of the North (1913) and The Empty Gun (1917) (4/1)

March, 2002

• Removed dead link to the gag page London After Midnight Video Sources (3/2)
• Added photos to filmography entries for The Oubliette (1914), The Pipes of Pan (1914) and For Those We Love (1921) (3/2)
• Added magazine advertisements for If My Country Should Call (1916) and The Place Beyond the Winds (1916) to the filmography entries and to the Poster and Lobby Page (3/2)
• I identified previously unidentified still #18 on the Unidentified Still Page (3/2)

February, 2001

• Added additional cast and notes info for Alas and Alack (1915) and Dolly's Scoop (1916) filmography entries (2/11)
• Added a lobby card to the When Bearcat Went Dry (1919) filmography entry and to the Poster and Lobby Page (2/11)
• Added a link to London After Midnight Video Sources (2/24)

December, 2000

• Added a Lon Chaney Cutout Hand Puppet to the home page (12/12)
• Added another Shadows lobby card to the Poster and Lobby Page (12/12)

November, 2000

• Added Lon Chaney Cigarette Card #1 and Cigarette Card #2, and a link to SideshowToy.Com to the Memorabilia Page (11/24)
• Added lobby cards for Tell It to the Marines, The Unknown and Outside the Law to the Poster and Lobby Page (11/24)
• Added filmography entries for The False Faces (1919), The Big City (1928), Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928), While the City Sleeps (1928), West of Zanzibar (1928), Where East is East (1929), Thunder (1929, MGM) and The Unholy Three (1930) (11/23)
• Added links to LonChaney.COM and a Film Threat interview of me about Chaney's films. (11/15)

October, 2000

• Added filmography entries and stills for The Monster (1925), The Unholy Three (1925), The Tower of Lies (1925), The Blackbird (1926), The Road to Mandalay (1926), Tell It to the Marines (1926), Mr. Wu (1927), The Unknown (1927), Mockery (1927) (10/7)

September, 2000

• Added new notes to the Unidentified Still Page (9/9)
• Added stills to The Empty Gun (1917) and The Trust (1915) (9/9)
• Added a note to The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis (1915) and Triumph (1917) indicating that portions survive (9/9)
• Added a Nomads of the North poster, The Hunchback of Notre Dame insert card, The Unholy Three (1925) ad art, The Unknown lobby card and West of Zanzibar lobby card to the Poster and Lobby Page (9/9)
• Added a Hunchback of Notre Dame souvenir poster to the Memorabilia Page (9/9)
• Added link to LonChaney.COM to my home page (9/9)
• Removed the link to the Live Cinema schedule as it appears to be no longer updated (9/9)
• Updated my Acknowledgements page (9/9)

January, 2000

• Added Shadows Sheet Music and Hunchback of Notre Dame Stereoscopic Photos to the Memorabilia Page (1/23)
• Added three new stills to the Unidentified Still Page and removed some previously identified stills. (1/23)
• Added an additional picture and text to The Chimney's Secret (1915) (1/23)
• Moved picture incorrectly identified as Red Margaret, Moonshiner (1913) to The Chimney's Secret (1915) (1/22)
• Added stills for Almost an Actress (1913), The Violin Maker (1915), and The Scarlet Car (1917) (1/22)
• Added a lobby card for The Penalty (1920) to the Poster and Lobby Page (1/22)

November, 1999

• Updated link to Bruce Calvert's Still ID Page (11/20)

September, 1999

• Added Erik's Page to the Phantom of the Opera filmography entry. (9/20)

August, 1999

• Added stills to filmography entries for Where the Forest Ends (1915), For Cash (1915) and The Hopes of Blind Alley (1914) (8/22)
• Added a London After Midnight Doll to the Memorabilia Page (8/22)
• Updated Broadway Love (1918) and Filmography to include film archive. (8/2)
• Made some minor changes to the Lon Chaney Still Codes list. (8/1)

July, 1999

• Added a number of still codes to the Lon Chaney Still Codes list. (7/20)
• Removed dead links to William Paolucci's Chaney Poster Page and Phil Riley's Horror Page (7/20)

January, 1999

• Updated the Unidentified Still Page with identification of a still from Father and the Boys (1915, Broadway Universal Features)(1/7)

December, 1998

• Restructed the Filmography page to split films into Billed and Unbilled appearances, and to indicate which filmography entries have stills associated with them. (12/31)
• Updated the Unidentified Still Page with identification of a still from The Lion, The Lamb, and the Man (1914, Universal/Rex)(12/31)
• Added stills to filmography entries for The Lion, The Lamb, and the Man (1914, Universal/Rex) and Steady Company (1915, Universal/Rex) (12/31)
• Updated link for Lon Chaney--Supermasochist (12/22)

November, 1998

• Added link to David Pearson's Chaney Gallery (11/22)
• Updated the Unidentified Still Page with several identified stills! (11/8)
• Added stills to filmography entries for Red Margaret, Moonshiner (1913), The Stronger Mind (1915), Dolly's Scoop (1916), Bobbie of the Ballet (1916), The Piper's Price (1917) and A Doll's House (1917). (11/8)

May, 1998

• Added additional posters, lobby cards, and ad art to the Chaney Poster Page: The Trap (1922), Mr. Wu, West of Zanzibar and Thunder (5/6)
• Updated my Acknowledgements page (5/6)

April, 1998

• Added filmography entries for Paid in Advance (1919), The Miracle Man (1919), Victory (1919), Treasure Island (1920), The Gift Supreme (1920), Nomads of the North (1920), The Penalty (1920), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923), The Next Corner (1924) and He Who Gets Slapped (1924) (4/21)
• Updated filmography entries for The Grasp of Greed(1916)), Riddle Gawne (1918), Paid in Advance (1919) and When Bearcat Went Dry (1919) to include archival holdings (4/21)

February, 1998

• Added a link to Phil Riley's Horror Page (2/17)
• Updated my Acknowledgements page (2/3)

January, 1998

• Enlarged all the photos in the Filmography (1/21)
• Added new photos to the Main Page (1/21)

December, 1997

• Added additional posters, lobby cards, and ad art to the Chaney Poster Page: Where East is East #1, Where East is East #2, The Road to Mandalay #1, The Road to Mandalay #2, Mockery #2, Mockery #3, Mockery #4, Nomads of the North, The Unholy Three (1925) #1, The Unholy Three (1925) #2, Victory, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Laugh, Clown, Laugh, Treasure Island #1, Treasure Island #2 and The Unknown #2 (12/31)
• Added Who Am I? (12/19)
• Added Outside the Law #2 to the Chaney Poster Page (12/19)
• Added Lon Chaney Postage Stamps (12/11)
• Added the Lon Chaney Memorabilia Gallery (12/10)
• Added additional posters to the Chaney Poster Page: A Blind Bargain, Shadows #1, Shadows #2 and The Shock (12/7)
• Added filmography entries for The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918), Outside the Law (1921), For Those We Love (1921), The Trap (1922), Flesh and Blood (1922), Oliver Twist (1922), Shadows (1922), Quincy Adams Sawyer (1922), A Blind Bargain (1922), All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923), While Paris Sleeps (1923), The Shock (1923) and London After Midnight (1927) (12/7)

November, 1997

• Added a link to William Paolucci's Chaney Poster Page (11/25)
• Added the Lon Chaney Poster Gallery (11/20)
• Added a policy statement on purchasing Lon Chaney Films on Video (11/18)
• Added a lovely Painting from LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH by noted artist Robert Semler (11/18)
• Removed dead links to National Library of Australia's Lon Chaney holdings
and Baseline's Bio and Filmography of Lon Chaney (11/18)

September, 1997

• Added a link to Festival Films Page of Lon Chaney Posters (9/22)

June, 1997

• Added a link to Lon Chaney's Cabin (6/1)

May, 1997

• Added filmography details for Suspense (1913), The Embezzler (1914), A Ranch Romance (1914), A Night of Thrills (1914), The Grand Passion (1918), The Talk of the Town (1918), Danger--Go Slow (1918) and A Man's Country (1919). (5/31)
• Updated The Wicked Darling (1919) which is no longer a lost film! (5/31)

February, 1997

• Added 9 more stills to Unidentified Chaney Stills (2/14)

January, 1997

• Added a collection of Unidentified Chaney Stills (1/24)
• Added filmography details on Almost an Actress (1913), The Menace to Carlotta (1914), Her Bounty (1914), Richelieu (1914), Her Life Story (1914), Accusing Evidence (1916), The Mask of Love (1917), A Doll's House (1917), The Empty Gun (1917), The Scarlet Car (1917), Bits of Life (1921), Ace of Hearts (1921), Voices of the City (1922) and The Light in the Dark (1922). (1/18)

December, 1996

• Added a page of acknowledgments (12/20)
• Added filmography details on Her Grave Mistake (1914), By the Sun's Rays (1914), The Oubliette (1914), A Miner's Romance (1914), The Higher Law (1914), The Pipes of Pan (1914), The Sin of Olga Brandt (1915), Star of the Sea (1915), When the Gods Played a Badger Game (1915), Such is Life (1915), Outside the Gates (1915), An Idyll of the Hills (1915), The Stronger Mind (1915), Father and the Boys (1915), The Gilded Spider (1916), The Grasp of Greed (1916), If My Country Should Call (1916), The Place Beyond the Winds (1916), The Girl in the Checkered Coat (1917), Fires of Rebellion (1917), Pay Me (1917), Anything Once (1917), Broadway Love (1918), Fast Company (1918), A Broadway Scandal (1918), Riddle Gawne (1918), That Devil Bateese (1918), The Wicked Darling (1919), When Bearcat Went Dry (1919) and Daredevil Jack (1920). (12/20)
• Added an example of a Joseph DeGrasse Production still code to Lon Chaney Still Codes (12/14)
• Added filmography details on The Grind (1915), The Girl of the Night (1915), The Stool Pigeon (1915), For Cash (1915), The Oyster Dredger (1915), Steady Company (1915), The Violin Maker (1915), The Trust (1915), Bound on the Wheel (1915), Mountain Justice (1915), The Chimney's Secret (1915), The Pine's Revenge (1915), The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis (1915), Alas and Alack (1915), A Mother's Atonement (1915), Lon of Lone Mountain (1915), The Millionaire Paupers (1915), Under a Shadow (1915), Stronger Than Death (1915), Dolly's Scoop (1916), Tangled Hearts (1916), Bobbie of the Ballet (1916), The Mark of Cain (1916), Felix on the Job (1916), The Price of Silence (1916), The Piper's Price (1917), Hell Morgan's Girl (1917), The Flashlight (1917), The Rescue (1917) and Triumph (1917). (12/14)
• Added filmography details on The Tragedy of Whispering Creek (1914), Virtue Its Own Reward (1914), Lights and Shadows (1914), The Lion, the Lamb, and the Man (1914), Her Escape (1914), The Small Town Girl (1915), The Measure of a Man (1915), The Threads of Fate (1915), Where the Forest Ends (1915), All for Peggy (1915), The Desert Breed (1915) and Maid of the Mist (1915). (12/10)
• Added an image pointer to all pages (12/9)
• Added a still to The Lie (1914) (12/9)
• Put a visitor counter on the home page (12/7)
• Added filmography details on The Honor of the Family (1912), Poor Jake's Demise (1913), The Sea Urchin (1913), The Trap (1913), An Elephant on His Hands (1913), Back to Life (1913), Red Margaret, Moonshiner (1913), Bloodhounds of the North (1913), The Lie (1914), The Honor of the Mounted (1914), Remember Mary Magdelen (1914), Discord and Harmony (1914), The Lamb, the Woman, the Wolf (1914), The End of the Feud (1914), The Unlawful Trade (1914), The Forbidden Room (1914), The Old Cobbler (1914) and The Hopes of Blind Alley (1914). (12/7)
• Added several links to other sites on Lon Chaney (12/4)
• Added an example of a still code to Lon Chaney Still Codes (12/4)
• This site went on-line December 2, 1996

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