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[London After Midnight]

Left: Lon Chaney Sr. in one-half of his greatest role, as the dapper vampire with wild hair and razor-sharp teeth who has occupied the London mansion of the supposed suicide Roger Balfour together with his bevy of female companions.

This was Chaney's only vampire role, despite longstanding (but unfounded) rumors that he was set to play Dracula in Browning's 1931 film version before cancer ended his career. (Ironically, however, the star of Dracula-- Bela Lugosi-- did get to play this vampire, in Browning's 1935 talkie remake Mark of the Vampire.)