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Jack Pierce
Sign in to saveAmerican makeup artist (1889-1968)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 27
Top works
- Bring Me a Dream
- What Woman Think
- Slash
- Rat Race
- Condemned
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Film & TV
Valdetsyou, Greece
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…
Known for
- Jack Pierce: The Man Who Made the Monsters — Self (archive footage)2015
- He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce — Self (archive footage)2008
- Midsomer Murders — Grady Felton1997
- Masquerade — Second Reporter1929
- The Circus — Man Operating Ropes (uncredited)1928
- The Isle of Sunken Gold1927
- Riders of the Law — Pete Gushard1922
- The Man Who Waited — Black Pete1922
- The Enchanted Kiss — Dwarf1917
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 48
- Total plays
- 351
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jack
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Greece
- Place of death
- Hollywood
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- horror film
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- date of birth
- 1889-05-05
- date of death
- 1968-07-19
- different from
- Jack Pierce
- name in native language
- Jack Pierce
- birth name
- Γιάννης Πίκουλας
- start of work period
- 1915-00-00
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- cause of death
- uremia
- writing language
- English language
- manner of death
- natural causes
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