- Known For
- Costume & Make-Up
- Born
- May 5, 1889
- Place of Birth
- Valdetsyou, Greece
- Died
- July 19, 1968
Jack Pierce
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack Pierce (born Janus Piccoula; 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. In the 1920s, Pierce embarked on a series of jobs in cinema—cinema manager, stuntman, actor, even assistant director, but within a few years he settled on mastering makeup. The head of Universal, Carl Laemmle, was won over with his creative abilities and hired full-time by the studio. Universal's first "talkie" horror film, Dracula (1931), eschewed elaborate horror make-up. Pierce designed a special color greasepaint for Bela Lugosi for his vampire character, but Lugosi insisted on applying his own make-up. For all film appearances of the character thereafter, Pierce instituted a different lo…
Filmography
movieJack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters
2015 · Self (archive footage)
movieHe Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce
2008 · Self (archive footage)
tvMidsomer Murders
1997 · Grady Felton
movieThe Creation of the Humanoids
1962 · Makeup Artist
movieBeyond the Time Barrier
1960 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Amazing Transparent Man
1960 · Makeup Artist
movieI Bury the Living
1958 · Makeup Artist
movieGiant from the Unknown
1958 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Brain from Planet Arous
1957 · Makeup Artist
movieAffair in Sumatra
1956 · Makeup Artist
moviePrima Donna
1956 · Makeup Artist
No. 5 Checked Out
movieNo. 5 Checked Out
1956 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Titanic Incident
1955 · Makeup Artist
movieNo Escape
1953 · Makeup Artist
movieTales of Robin Hood
1951 · Makeup Artist
movieBlades of the Musketeers
1950 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Pilgrimage Play
1949 · Makeup Artist
movieMaster Minds
1949 · Makeup Artist
movieJoan of Arc
1948 · Makeup Artist
movieTime Out of Mind
1947 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Egg and I
1947 · Makeup Artist
movieBuck Privates Come Home
1947 · Makeup Artist
Doctor Jim
movieDoctor Jim
1947 · Makeup Artist
movieMagnificent Doll
1946 · Makeup Department Head
movieTemptation
1946 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Brute Man
1946 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Killers
1946 · Makeup Department Head
movieBlack Angel
1946 · Makeup Supervisor
movieCanyon Passage
1946 · Makeup Artist
movieTangier
1946 · Makeup Artist
movieHer Adventurous Night
1946 · Makeup & Hair
movieDressed to Kill
1946 · Makeup Department Head
movieShe-Wolf of London
1946 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Cat Creeps
1946 · Makeup Artist
movieHouse of Horrors
1946 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Spider Woman Strikes Back
1946 · Makeup Artist
movieLittle Giant
1946 · Makeup Artist
movieTerror by Night
1946 · Makeup Department Head
movieLittle Miss Big
1946 · Makeup Department Head
movieScarlet Street
1945 · Makeup Artist
movieHouse of Dracula
1945 · Makeup Artist
moviePursuit to Algiers
1945 · Makeup Department Head
movieThe Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Jungle Captive
1945 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Naughty Nineties
1945 · Makeup Artist
movieSudan
1945 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Mummy's Curse
1944 · Makeup Artist
movieHouse of Frankenstein
1944 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Climax
1944 · Makeup Artist
movieGypsy Wildcat
1944 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Mummy's Ghost
1944 · Makeup Artist
movieJungle Woman
1944 · Makeup Artist
movieCobra Woman
1944 · Makeup Artist
movieAli Baba and the Forty Thieves
1944 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Mad Ghoul
1943 · Makeup Artist
movieFlesh and Fantasy
1943 · Makeup Artist
movieSon of Dracula
1943 · Makeup Artist
moviePhantom of the Opera
1943 · Makeup Artist
movieCaptive Wild Woman
1943 · Makeup Artist
movieWhite Savage
1943 · Makeup Artist
movieFrankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
1943 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Mummy's Tomb
1942 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Ghost of Frankenstein
1942 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Wolf Man
1941 · Makeup Artist
movieMan-Made Monster
1941 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Mummy's Hand
1940 · Makeup Artist
movieThe House of the Seven Gables
1940 · Makeup Artist
movieBlack Friday
1940 · Makeup Artist
movieTower of London
1939 · Makeup Artist
movieSon of Frankenstein
1939 · Makeup Artist
movieWives Under Suspicion
1938 · Makeup Artist
movieLet Them Live
1937 · Makeup Artist
movieNight Key
1937 · Makeup Artist
movieTwo in a Crowd
1936 · Makeup Artist
movieShow Boat
1936 · Makeup Artist
movieDracula's Daughter
1936 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Invisible Ray
1936 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Raven
1935 · Makeup Designer
movieWerewolf of London
1935 · Makeup Artist
movieBride of Frankenstein
1935 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Good Fairy
1935 · Makeup Artist
movieImitation of Life
1934 · Makeup Artist
movieGreat Expectations
1934 · Makeup Artist
movieHalf a Sinner
1934 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Black Cat
1934 · Makeup Artist
movieBy Candlelight
1933 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Invisible Man
1933 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Kiss Before the Mirror
1933 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Big Cage
1933 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Mummy
1932 · Makeup Designer
movieBack Street
1932 · Makeup Artist
movieWhite Zombie
1932 · Makeup Artist
movieMurders in the Rue Morgue
1932 · Makeup Artist
movieFrankenstein
1931 · Makeup Artist
movieDracula
1931 · Makeup Artist
movieKing of Jazz
1930 · Makeup Artist
movieMasquerade
1929 · Second Reporter
movieThe Last Warning
1928 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Man Who Laughs
1928 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Circus
1928 · Man Operating Ropes (uncredited)
movieThe Isle of Sunken Gold
1927
movieThe White Black Sheep
1926 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Lady of the Harem
1926 · Makeup Artist
movieThe Wanderer
1925 · Makeup Artist
movieRiders of the Law
1922 · Pete Gushard
movieThe Man Who Waited
1922 · Black Pete
The Enchanted Kiss
movieThe Enchanted Kiss
1917 · Dwarf