Gwynplaine is never made out to be sinister, yet his grin is unnerving even by contemporary standards. It serves a reminder of the lasting horror that can result from simple, evocative imagery.

Gwynplaine is given to a group of comprachicos, or child-sellers, who give the boy his ubiquitous look. Conrad Veidt in 'The Man Who Laughs.' Universal. Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and ...

Gwynplaine isn't the same homicidal lunatic that his comic book doppelgänger is, but take one look at Veidt's makeup and it's easy to see where the idea for the Clown Prince of Crime started to form.

The unhappy life of F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, who won acclaim as a science-fiction writer yet struggled to make ends meet, ended in a blaze of his own making.

Gwynplaine is taken in as a child (Arben Bajraktaraj) by itinerant herbalist-turned-playwright and fairground worker, Ursus (Depardieu, doing Depardieu), who initially orders the boy to hide his ...

Gwynplaine's mouth has been mutilated into a perpetual grin. Ursus and his surrogate children go on to earn a meagre living in the fairs of southern England, with Gwynplaine keeping the lower half ...

Don't believe anything you read about Fergus "Froggy" MacIntyre, tweedily-dressed, bushy-haired, shambling man-mountain. This journalist, poet, artist, and bon viveur recently burned himself to ...

The Times’ Corey Kilgannon writes: Writer friends knew him as a worldly bon vivant with an acerbic wit. He corresponded with many literary types and would share photographs of himself posing ...

Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt), whose noble father had displeased King James II, was turned over to a gypsy band for proper punishment: a facial mutilation which leaves him with a perpetual and ghastly ...

Stolen Chair’s “The Man Who Laughs,” an adaptation of a Victor Hugo novel about a freak, is rivetingly rendered by five adept actors in the fashion of a 1920s silent-movie melodrama.