Harry Thomas(1909-1996)
- Make-Up Department
- Actor
- Art Department
During the horror/sci-fi boom of the 1950s, makeup man Harry Thomas was
associated with some of the most memorable personalities and pictures
of the period. He worked with Roger Corman,
Edward D. Wood Jr.,
Tor Johnson and
Richard E. Cunha, and contributed to
such films as
La fille de Frankenstein (1958),
Cat-Women of the Moon (1953),
Killers from Space (1954),
L'Homme de Néanderthal (1953),
La Petite Boutique des horreurs (1960) and many more. Thomas began his
career in the 1930s when one of his first jobs was at MGM working under
renowned makeup artist Jack Dawn and
his assistant William Tuttle.
Thomas is best-known for his work on horror movies, in which he almost
invariably had to make something out of nothing.
