Bud Westmore

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George Hamilton “Bud” Westmore , born Hamilton Adolph Westmore , (born January 13, 1918 in New Orleans , United States , † June 24, 1973 in Los Angeles , California , United States) was an American makeup artist .

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Along with his brother Wally, Bud Westmore was one of the most famous and, with over 500 film assignments, also one of the most productive makeup artists in three and a half decades of Hollywood film history. The son of George Westmore (1879–1931), who emigrated from England to the USA and originally worked as a hairdresser and had set up the first make-up department in Hollywood in 1917, came to Los Angeles as a child, where he came to Father quickly made contact with the film industry. He and his five brothers Monte (1902–1940), Perc (1904–1970), Ern (1904–1967), Wally (1906–1973) and Frank Westmore (1923–1985) followed in their father's footsteps and were called “ The Westmore Family ”highly sought-after makeup artists. Together they founded two family-owned companies, the House of Westmore Salon and the House of Westmore Cosmetics.

Bud Westmore began his make-up career in 1938 for 20th Century Fox , the first star he mentored was Ruby Keeler . Westmore's other employers, who were briefly married to Hollywood actress Martha Raye in 1937 , were Warner Brothers, Paramount and Eagle Lion Studios, before he went to Universal City Studios and rose to head its makeup department in 1947. He stayed there until shortly before his retirement in the early 1970s. For many years Westmore was primarily involved in B-Pictures; this only changed in the course of the 1950s.

In his busy life, Westmore created the masks and make-up for a plethora of top stars in the industry, including women Lana Turner , Simone Signoret , Elizabeth Taylor , Doris Day , Julie Andrews and Shirley MacLaine, and Messrs. James Stewart , Spencer Tracy , John Wayne , Gregory Peck , Marlon Brando , Paul Newman and, with extra effort in 1962, Tony Curtis , Frank Sinatra , Burt Lancaster , Kirk Douglas and Robert Mitchum . The latter five stars were barely recognizable under the masks created by Westmore in John Huston's thriller The List of the Dead . For the senior Lon Chaney representative James Cagney had Bud Westmore previously very intense film masks in the actor biography a few years , the man with 1,000 faces created.

Westmore, who is second married to the film actress Rosemary Lane , who for understandable reasons had his maiden name Hamilton Adolph Westmore officially changed to George Hamilton Westmore since the Second World War, also wrote two books on female beauty cosmetics with the titles "The Westmore Beauty Book" and “Beauty, Glamor and Personality”.

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SURNAME Westmore, Bud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westmore, George Hamilton; Westmore, Hamilton Adolph (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American makeup artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1973
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States