1883 Lon Chaney - US actor who was known as The Man of a Thousand Faces (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Bushwackers, The Phantom of the Opera, The Unholy Three, He Who Gets Slapped, Oliver Twist, West of Zanzibar, The Horror of it All) His parents where deaf-mutes, and he had to communicate with them by mime. He was the father of Lon Chaney Jr. I wonder if communicating by mime helped his silent film career?
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