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Jack Pierce (born Yiannis Pikoulas; May 5, 1889 – July 19, 1968) was a Hollywood make-up artist best remembered for creating the iconic makeup worn by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931), along with various other classic monster make-ups for Universal Studios.
Dec 4, 2019 · A 10-minute search produced a nearly empty envelope with the name Jack Pierce typed on the front. It contained two obituary clippings from the trades, one dated July 23, 1968, the other July 25. The entire career of a movie genius was tersely summed up in eight inches of repetitious biographical information.
Jack Warren Pierce (born September 23, 1962 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey) [1] is an American former hurdling athlete Raised in Woodbury, New Jersey , he graduated Woodbury High School in 1980. [ 2 ] He attended the Morgan State University on a track scholarship.
Jack P. Pierce. Makeup Department: The Wolf Man. As we look back on the cinematic pioneers of the 20th century, no individual is more significant in his field than genius makeup artist Jack Pierce, the legendary monster-maker who worked in the 1930s and 1940s at Universal Studios during its classic horror period.
Oct 31, 2023 · After World War II, Jack Pierce’s reign at Universal Pictures ended when the studio merged with International Pictures and replaced many of its longtime artists. Though he had been a makeup department head at the studio for 19 years and worked at the studio for over 30 years, Pierce ended his career working elsewhere on low-budget films and television during the final 20 years of his life.
Jack P Pierce’s final credit is as make-up artist for TV series Mr Ed (1961-1964). He died on the 19th of July, 1968 in Hollywood, California, and although there is as yet no star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame bearing his name, a memorial gallery at Cinema Makeup School in Los Angeles pays respectful tribute to his timeless work.
Jack Pierce, 1889-1968, chief makeup artist for Universal Studios from 1926 to 1947. Pierce and Karloff worked together three hours a day for three weeks to create a prototype of the Monster's appearance. Although his creation, with its green skin, flat head, and electrodes in the neck, has entered popular consciousness as the definitive ...
