William Tuttle

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William Tuttle (born April 13, 1912 in Jacksonville , Florida , † July 27, 2007 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American makeup artist .

Life

William Tuttle dropped out of school early to help support the family after his father left the family. After a few jobs, he moved to Hollywood in the early 1930s and began working in the film business. Under the makeup artist Jack Dawn , he started as his assistant at Twentieth Century Pictures . When Dawn moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1934 and became head of the make-up department there, Tuttle came along. At MGM he worked as a make-up artist, among other things, on The Wizard of Oz and Father of the Bride .

After Dawn left the film business, Tuttle took over the management of the department. At MGM, he was responsible for the make-up of hundreds of productions from the 1950s to the 1970s. As part of his work at MGM, Tuttle created exact facial impressions of many actors in order to be able to adjust artificial scars, false noses or deep age wrinkles without them. When MGM closed the make-up department on the studio grounds, Tuttle gave over 100 of these impressions, including the faces of Paul Newman , Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier, as well as a replica of the legs of the dancer Cyd Charisse , to the University of Southern California .

His work included, on the one hand, fantasy films like The Time Machine or Frankenstein Junior , which required make-up that went into monstrous and disfiguring ways, and on the other hand, Tuttle was also responsible for attracting good-looking stars like Gene Kelly in You should be my lucky star or Esther Williams in making The Golden Mermaid look like herself, only better.

William Tuttle died in 2007 at the age of 95 in Pacific Palisades , the district of Los Angeles in which he lived to the last. He was buried in Minnesota's Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.

Awards

Tuttle was the first makeup artist to receive an Oscar for his work : Seventeen years before the Best Make-up category was introduced, Tuttle received an Honorary Oscar in 1965 for his work on the film The Mysterious Dr. Lao . In one of his last films, Vicious Circle Alpha from 1978, Tuttle worked with Rick Baker , who then received the statuette in 1982 as the first official award winner for American Werewolf .

William Tuttle received two Saturn Awards and two Golden Scrolls from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films , including 1978 for the film Escape to the 23rd Century and a year later for the said vicious circle Alpha , in which he won the award shared with Baker.

Tuttle also received a 1976 U.S. Emmy Television Award nomination .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the LA Times obituary on August 3, 2007
  2. ↑ a b So Margalit Fox in her obituary in the New York Times of August 4, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Tuttle, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American makeup artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Jacksonville , Florida
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2007
Place of death Los Angeles , California