Dick Smith, Oscar-winning Master Of Movie Makeup, Dies At 92

As the grandmaster of special-effects makeup, Dick Smith broke ground in the movies in the early 1970s when he transformed Dustin Hoffman into a 120-year-old for "Little Big Man" and an adolescent Linda Blair into a diabolical demon in "The Exorcist." In this publicity image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment, Linda Blair portrays a possessed Regan MacNeil in a scene from, "The Exorcist." Dick Smith, the Oscar-winning make-up artist who amused, fascinated and terrified moviegoers by devising unforgettable transformations for Marlon Brando in "The Godfather" and Linda Blair in "The Exorcist," died Wednesday, July 30, 2014 in California of natural causes.

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