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| Film and TV Make-up Veteran Leo Lotito, Jr. Dies at 86 |
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Posted: Monday 08 June, 2009
Note: Make-Up Artist magazine recently received corrected information on the date and location of Mr. Lotito's death, which we have added to this article.
(Originally posted Dec. 22, 2008)
Leo Lotito Jr., a six-time Emmy® Award nominee whose Hollywood make-up career spanned four decades, died Dec. 6 in Thousand Oaks, Calif. He was 86.
According to representatives from Local 706, the West Coast make-up and hairstylist union, Lotito (who served as a Marine during World War II) learned make-up techniques from Ern Westmore and joined the union in 1947. Over the course of his career, Lotito honed his special make-up skills, excelling (as the union described it) in “fantastic creatures scaly and furry.” Although he wasn’t credited, Lotito worked with John Chambers to create the Dr. Zira make-up for The Planet of the Apes; he also worked on the film’s sequel. His other film credits include Riders of the Pony Express, The Terminal Man, Cleopatra Jones, White Line Fever, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Oh, God! (continued below)
Lotito worked extensively in television as well, on the programs The Millionaire, The Jack Benny Program, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Riverboat, The Virginian, The Blue and the Gray and Mystic Warrior. He was nominated for an Emmy® Award six times and worked with Raquel Welch, Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, Lana Turner, George Segal, Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
Lotito directed the make-up department for The Burbank Studios from the late ‘80s through the early ‘90s. Although he announced his retirement in 1986, the studio recruited him to run the make-up and hairstyling department for several years afterward. He traveled around the world multiple times; in 1979, he was invited to China for six weeks to teach make-up artists his techniques.
He is survived by his wife Patricia Ann and a daughter, Tricia. Services will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008 at the Kingdom Hall Jehovah Witness, 220 Erbes Rd. in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Make-Up Artist Magazine Features Michael Jackson Retrospective - Monday 06 July, 2009 |
| Following the recent death of Michael Jackson, Make-Up Artist magazine’s next issue (#79) will feature a retrospective of the King of Pop,
featuring interviews with a number of make-up artists who worked with
Jackson over the past three decades, as well as some exclusive,
never-before-published photos. |
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Web Exclusive: Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Young Hellboy - Monday 04 August, 2008 |
| From a make-up perspective, the first major character to appear in Hellboy 2 is
a younger version of the hero, seen in a 1955 prologue with Professor
Broom (John Hurt). The Young Hellboy character was created by the
Barcelona-based company DDT Efectos Especiales and played in a
gender-bending twist by the company’s Montse Ribé. |
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Iranian Make-up Innovator Dies at 65 - Wednesday 14 May, 2008 |
| Iranian
movie make-up artist Farhang Moayyeri died May 10 in Tehran of cardiac arrest.
He was 65 and had already fought a long battle with lung cancer, the Iran State
News Agency reported.
Moayyeri
created several make-up designs and prosthetics for Iranian theater, television
and film. He is best known for creating make-up for the films of Bahram Beizai,
Mas'ud Kimiai and other well-known Iranian directors.
According
to the ISNA, Moayyeri was born in 1943 and began his career acting on The
Brick and the Mirror (1965), then tried directing before entering the make-up
industry in 1978. He created the make-up for Bashou, the Little Stranger (1986), Maybe Some Other Time (1988), Killing Mad Dogs (2001) and
other films.
Mohsen
Maleki, head of the Iranian Association of Make-Up Designers, expressed sorrow
over Moayyeri’s death and described him as the father of modern Iranian make-up
design. Moayyeri was honored by the association in 2006 for his efforts to train
new generations of artists in Iran's film industry.
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Wake Up to Make-up! - Thursday 11 December, 2008 |
Australian make-up artist Napoleon Perdis has his own schools, his own cosmetics line, and now, his own reality show: Get Your Face On.
The program, filmed at Perdis’ flagship L.A. store, follows 12 make-up
artists as they vie to become his protégé. The one-hour, 10-episode
show debuted Dec. 8 on the TLC network and is airing every weekday
morning through Dec. 19. We asked Perdis to tell us more.
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