William J. Tuttle
William Tuttle ( born April 13, 1912 in Jacksonville, Florida; † July 27, 2007 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American artist.
Life and career
William Tuttle left school early to contribute to the family upkeep, after his father left the family. After a few jobs he went beginning of the 1930s to Hollywood and began working in Filmgeschaft. Under the makeup artist Jack Dawn, he began first as his assistant at Twentieth Century Pictures. As Dawn 1934 Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer ( MGM) changed and there has been head of the makeup department, Tuttle came up with. At MGM, he worked as a makeup artist, among other things, first with on The Wizard of Oz and father of the bride.
After Dawn's farewell from the movie business Tuttle took over the management of the department. At MGM he was so until 1950 in the 1970s by the responsible for the make -up of hundreds of productions. During his tenure at MGM created Tuttle exact facial imprints of many actors in order to adapt it without any artificial scars, false noses or deep wrinkles can age. As MGM dissolved the makeup department on the backlot, Tuttle handed over 100 of these prints, including next to the faces of Paul Newman, Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier also a replica of the legs of the dancer Cyd Charisse, at the University of Southern California.
Among his works were a part fantasy films like The Time Machine or Young Frankenstein, who demanded a make -up that went into monstrous and Disfiguring the other hand Tuttle was also responsible, good-looking stars like Gene Kelly in Singin ' star his or Esther Williams in The Golden Mermaid prepare so that they looked like themselves, only better.
William Tuttle died in 2007 at the age of 95 years in Pacific Palisades, the district of Los Angeles where he lived until recently. He was buried in Minnesota 's Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.
Awards
Tuttle was the first artist who won an Oscar for his work: Seventeen years before the category Best Make -up was introduced, Tuttle received in 1965 an honorary Oscar for his work on the film The Mysterious Dr. Lao. On one of his last films, The Fury of 1978, Tuttle worked with Rick Baker, who in 1982 got the statuette as the first official winners for American Werewolf in London.
From the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films William Tuttle took twice a Saturn Award and a Golden Scroll counter twice, including in 1978 for the film Escape to the 23rd century, and a year later for said The Fury, in which he is the price told Baker.
Tuttle also received a 1976 nomination for the U.S. TV Emmy Award.