![Phantom of the Opera (Universal 1943)](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Phantom-of-the-Opera_main-170x120.jpg)
Phantom of the Opera, Universal’s lavish 1943 Technicolor remake of the 1925 Chaney classic, was quite a departure from the studio’s usual classic monsters […]
![Lon Chaney](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Lon-Chaney-170x120.jpg)
Born Leonidas Frank Chaney on the 1st of April 1883, Lon Chaney is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of the silent […]
![Gaston Leroux](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Gaston-Leroux_main-170x120.jpg)
Author of The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux, was born on the 6th of May, 1868, in Paris. After a career […]
![Mary Philbin](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mary-philbin_main-170x120.jpg)
Mary Philbin, the classic silent actress who starred opposite Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and Conrad Veidt in The Man […]
![Thorley Walters](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Thorley-Walters_main-170x120.jpg)
Thorley Walters, the English character actor and famous Hammer stalwart, was born on 12th May, 1913, in Teigngrace, Devon, the son of Prebendary T […]
![Claude Rains](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Claude-Rains_main-170x120.jpg)
English stage and screen actor William Claude Rains was born on the 10th of November, 1889 in Camberwell, London. Rains grew up with what […]
![Carla Laemmle](https://www.classic-monsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Carla-Laemmle_main-170x120.jpg)
Carla Laemmle was born Rebekah Isabelle Laemmle on 20th October, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. Of German Jewish descent, she took the adjunctive format of […]