# Lon Chaney

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lon-chaney/39299>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 1, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lon-chaney/39299 "2000-11-01T21:36:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lon-chaney/39299/21 "2000-11-04T05:18:26Z")

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Regarding Lon’s “stand in” during “The Unknown”: I never took the knife-throwing scenes as his, I assumed that was a stand-in’s work. But there was this one scene in particular where he was just sitting and talking, and was using his legs like they were hands - using hand-like gestures, resting his chin on his foot, everything. It was amazing.

Now, I suppose that there could have been a “stand in” somehow doing his leg gestures during that scene, but I doubt it. And yes, Eve, he was rather a good looker without the makeup!

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