Jon Mirsalis on Piano. Lon Chaney, the son of deaf parents, was a master at communicating through body language. He was always concerned with the credibility of his performances, and though he is remembered as "the man of a thousand faces," his famous horror portrayals did not afford him the opportunity to perform with the subtlety and studied expressiveness he showed in non-makeup parts. The False Faces is one of relatively few surviving films from the dozens Chaney made before being typed in grotesque roles. An excellent character actor, he played heavies in the hard melodramas of Thomas Ince and others. The False Faces is a wild and exuberant thriller, mixing World War One and the L. J. Vance "Lone Wolf" series in an espionage story. Chaney plays the evil Prussian secret agent opposite Henry B. Walthall as the Lone Wolf, a crook who reforms to help the Allies uncover the Huns in their midst.