MOVIES AND MANIA | Category: makeup, special effects artist

Dawn of the Dead – USA, Italy, 1978

‘When there’s no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth’ Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 American zombie horror feature film written and directed by George A. …

John Carl Buechler – filmmaker and special effects artist – has died

John Carl Buechler [pronounced Beekler] – June 18, 1952 to March 18, 2019 – was an American director, actor, and special effects and makeup artist. Born in Belleville, Illinois, John …

Bud Westmore – make-up artist

Bud Westmore (13 January 1918 – 24 June 1973) was a make-up artist in Hollywood and son of George Westmore, a member of the Westmore family prominent in Hollywood make-up. He is …

Rick Baker – makeup artist

Richard A. “Rick” Baker – born December 8, 1950 in Binghamton, New York – is an American special makeup effects artist known for his creature effects. As a teen, Baker …

Paul Blaisdell – artist, sculptor and actor

Paul Blaisdell was an American artist, sculptor and actor, best known for his creations for some of the early Science Fiction creature features made by Roger Corman. Despite the meagre …

Dick Smith – special effects makeup artist

Richard Emerson “Dick” Smith (born June 26, 1922, died July 30 2014) was an American special effects make-up artist (nicknamed “The Godfather of Make-Up”) known for his pioneering work on such films as Little Big Man, The …

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th – USA, 2013

Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th is a 2013 American documentary – based on the book of the same title by Peter M. Bracke – about …

Mike Hill – artist/sculptor

Mike Hill is a Los Angeles-based sculptor, originally from Warrington, Cheshire in England, who specialises in ultra-realistic models of monsters from classic horror films. His work includes small figures for …

Don Post Studios’ The Facehugger

Don Post Studios were known in the 1970s and 80s as the manufacturers of top quality masks. Not your cheap and nasty latex (or plastic!) novelty items that you would …

Stuart Freeborn (make-up artist)

Stuart Freeborn (5 September 1914 – 5 February 2013) was a veteran British motion picture make-up artist who died recently. He has been referred to as the “grandfather of modern make-up design” and is perhaps best …

Jack P. Pierce – makeup artist

Jack P. Pierce (born Janus Piccoula; May 5, 1889 – July 19, 1968) was a Hollywood makeup artist most famous for creating the iconic makeup worn by Boris Karloff in Universal Studios’ 1931 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, along with various …