Round 8: Tossup 22

An actor with this surname played a tragicomic character created by Leonid Andreyev and simply called “He” in a Victor Sjöström (“WUH-strum”) film that was the first to use MGM’s Leo the Lion logo. An actor with this surname was the first to play a character associated (15[1])with a poem about “a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night.” (15[1])To (15[1])star in The Penalty and Tod Browning’s The Unknown, an actor (15[1])with this surname painfully hid his limbs. (15[2])Pentagrams presage the title character’s nightly murders in a Welsh town in a 1941 film starring an actor with this surname as (*) Larry Talbot. Universal Studios infamously kept (10[1])secret the grotesque, faint-inducing look of an actor with this surname in The Phantom of the Opera. (10[1])Two actors with this surname are namechecked in Warren Zevon’s (10[1])“Werewolves of London.” For 10 points, give this surname of the star (10[1])of The Wolf Man and his father, whose makeup talents earned him the moniker “Man of a Thousand Faces.” ■END■

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