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  1. Jack Pierce (born Yiannis Pikoulas; 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.

  2. Dec 4, 2019 · A small, wiry man with a quixotic imagination and a sometimes sharp-edged temper, Jack P. Pierce was an immigrant from Athens, Greece who had spent two decades working his way upward in the film business to his present position of head of the Universal make-up department.

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  3. Jack P Pierce was a monster make-up artist who created the Boris Karloff Frankenstein Monster image, as well as the Wolf Man for Lon Chaney Junior.

  4. Oct 31, 2023 · Including all of the mainstream production entities, no individual is more significant to a studio’s work than makeup artist Jack Pierce, the legendary monster-maker who worked in the 1930s and 1940s at Universal Pictures during their classic horror cycle.

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  5. Jun 13, 2018 · The future ‘Man of a Thousand Faces’, along with Jack Dawn, who would eventually find fame as the makeup artist on The Wizard of Oz, inspired Pierce to develop his own skills while employed...

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  6. A short documentary all about the life and legacy of makeup artist Jack Pierce, the man responsible for the iconic Universal Monsters.Special feature that wa...

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  7. Feb 27, 2023 · Using out-of-the-box techniques pre-dating foam and latex molds, Jack Pierce is credited for creating the iconic monster make-ups for The Mummy, The Wolf Man, and most famously, Boris Karloff’s character in Frankenstein .