Career
In 1956 he became the first make-up designer ever to receive on-screen cr for "special" make-up effects for his "bold and innovative" work in X the Unknown. He provided Christopher Lee"s celebrated makeup for Hammer"s The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), whose "monster" had to be memorable and terrifying without infringing the copyright on Universal"s earlier makeup, created by Jack Pierce for Boris Karloff. His assistant, Roy Ashton, took charge of Hammer make-up from then onwards.
