Description

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American Silent film horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera. It was directed by Rupert Julian and starred Lon Chaney, Sr in the title role of the deformed Phantom who haunts the Palais Garnier, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star. The movie remains most famous for Chaney’s ghastly, self-devised make-up, which was kept a studio secret until the film’s premiere.

Cast

• Lon Chaney, Sr. as Erik (The Phantom of the Opera)
• Mary Philbin as Christine Daaé
• Norman Kerry as Viscount Raoul de Chagny
• Arthur Edmund Carewe as The Persian
• Gibson Gowland as Simon Buquet
• John St. Polis as Comte Philippe de Chagny
• Snitz Edwards as Florine Papillon
• Mary Fabian as Carlotta (The Phantom of the Opera) (1930 redux)
• Virginia Pearson as Carlotta/Carlotta’s mother (1930 redux)

Uncredited

• Bernard Siegel (actor) as Joseph Buquet
• Edward Martindel as Comte Phillipe de Chagny (1930 redux)
• Joseph Belmont as a stage manager
• Alexander Bevani as Méphistophélès
• Edward Cecil as Faust
• Ruth Clifford as ballerina
• Roy Coulson as the Jester
• George Davis (actor) as The guard outside Christine’s door
• Madame Fiorenza as Madame Giry, keeper of the box
• Cesare Gravina as a retiring manager
• Bruce Covington as Monsieur Moncharmin
• William J. Humphrey as Monsieur Debienne
• George B Williams as Monsieur Ricard
• Carla Laemmle as Prima Ballerina
• Grace Marvin as Martha
• John Miljan as Valéntin
• Rolfe Sedan as an undetermined role
• William Tracy as the Ratcatcher, the messenger from the shadows
• Anton Vaverka as Prompter

Deleted scenes

• Olive Ann Alcorn as La Sorelli
• Chester Conklin as Orderly
• Ward Crane as Count Ruboff
• Vola Vale as Christine’s maid
• Edith Yorke as Mama Valerius