NEW YORK (AP) — Dick Smith, the Oscar-winning "Godfather of Makeup" who amused, fascinated and terrified moviegoers by devising unforgettable transformations for Marlon Brando in "The Godfather" and Linda Blair in "The Exorcist" among many others, has died. Smith, the first makeup artist to win an Academy Award for lifetime achievement, died Wednesday night in California of natural causes. Widely regarded as the master in his field, Smith helped pioneer such now-standard materials as liquid foam latex and make special effects more realistic and spectacular. With Smith on hand, the middle-aged Brando was transformed into the jowly patriarch Vito Corleone, the teenage Blair into a scarred and wild-eyed demon, and William Hurt into a mass of protoplasm for "Altered States." Smith also fashioned a mohawk out of a plastic cap and chopped up hair for Robert De Niro in "Taxi Driver" and created breasts out of foam rubber for Katherine Ross in "The Stepford Wives."
'godfather Of Makeup' Dick Smith Dead At 92
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Movies
Thu, 07/31/2014 - 1:11pm
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