…I picked up a new property man at Universal who was quite a nice guy. he used to come around with funny teeth in his mouth and weird makeups. I guess he was hinting - nobody goes around with a putty nose on unless he wants to be noticed. Bu he loved makeup. Finally I said to him, “What the hell is this? Do you want to get in front of the lens?” He said yes, he’d tried acting one in a stock company and had liked it. He was a property man because he had to make a living. So I put him to work as a couple of weird characters and he caught on - people began to notice him - and I took the tip right away and said, I’ll feature him. And that was the start of Lon Chaney. ~ Director, Allan Dwan
[Who The Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors by Peter Bogdanovich]
