Reposted from Blog: 50000000 Sparber Fans Can’t be Wrong - under the title “Sparber’s Guide to the Twin Cities: George and Gordon Bau”

by Max Sparber

THERE ARE A FEW makeup artists who are well-known to horror fans. There is Lon Chaney, of course, who provided his own makeup for his performances in films such as The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera; he was so famous for transforming into monstrosities that a popular Hollywood joke in the 20s was “Don’t step on it! It might be Lon Chaney!” Then there was Jack Pierce, who created the makeup for such classic Universal horror characters as Boris Karloff’s monster from Frankenstein and Lon Chaney, Jr.’s werewolf in The Wolf Man. More recently, Tom Savini’s splattery effects for George Romero’s zombie films have given him enough name recognition to appear as himself in The Simpsons, and Rick Baker has won six Academy Awards for his work films such as An American Werewolf in London and Ed Wood.

There is a pair of names that should be added to this list: Minnesota-born George and Gordon Bau. Firstly, because they were collectively responsible for special effects makeup in almost 200 films (Gordon, who was head of Warner Brothers’ makeup department, gets the lion’s share of credits.) These include such classic (or notorious) films as The Omega Man, Them!, and The Ape.

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