La cabaña del "Fantasma de la Ópera"

1923 Lon Chaney retrato


Lon Chaney en El fantasma de la ópera (1925)

Lon Chaney

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Lon Chaney (April 1, 1883 – August 26, 1930), born Leonidas Frank Chaney, was an American actor during the age of silent films. He is regarded as one of the most versatile and powerful actors of early cinema, renowned for his characterizations of tortured, often grotesque and afflicted characters, and his groundbreaking artistry with makeup.[1] Chaney is known for his starring roles in such silent horror films as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. His ability to transform himself using makeup techniques he developed earned him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Faces."

LON CHANEY'S STONE CABIN

Lon Chaney High Sierra House - front view

The stone cabin is located in the Inyo National Forest about 2.5 miles from the Big Pine Creek trail head next to the north fork of Big Pine Creek in the Eastern Sierra Nevada (above Owens Valley).

The cabin was designed by noted architect Paul R. Williams — for actor Lon Chaney, and built in 1929. On the National Register of Historic Places

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Lon Chaney, best known for his acting, was an avid fisherman and outdoorsman. In 1929 Chaney commissioned Paul Williams to design and build a stone cabin for him in the eastern Sierra Nevada. The cabin still stands today, however, it is now owned and preserved by the Inyo National Forest Service. You can locate the cabin alongside the trail which runs up the north fork of Big Pine Creek in the John Muir Wilderness.

You can read more about Chaney's cabin in this article from June 2003 by the LA Times.

Chaney construyó una impresionante cabaña de piedra como retiro en lo remoto del bosque que se encuentra en la parte oriental de las montañas de Sierra Nevada, cerca de Big Pine, California. La cabaña (diseñada por el arquitecto Paul Williams) es conservada por el Servicio Forestal Nacional Inyo.

The Lon Chaney Cabin from The Great Silence on Vimeo.

Nightmare #2 (Halloween Haunts 2010): My hike to see the cabin silent film actor Lon Chaney owned. Chaney liked to fish the lakes in the back-country outside the town of Big Pine. So, he had this place built away from civilization in the middle of a forest near the North Fork of Big Pine Creek. The cabin is now owned by the forest service. Rangers can live here or use it for a storage shed during the summer season.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Chaney

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/jun/07/local/me-outthere7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ChaneyHighSierraHouseFrontView.jpg

http://creakofboots.blogspot.com.es/2010/12/lon-chaneys-stone-cabin.html