Curiosidades

His first professional job was for Rick Baker on Michael Jackson's "Thriller." Gardner appeared in the video as the hobbling zombie whose arm falls off.

Arizona State Police originally believed that bullets had been fired through a real human cadaver and filmed with a high speed camera. The Missing Person's division thought that the "cadaver" was obtained by taking a homeless person off of the streets of Phoenix, Arizona. Eventually, Tony had to write a disclaimer describing how he had achieved the sequences with makeup effects technology so that Warner Brothers could hand or fax the disclaimer out to all of the people flooding their offices with inquiries. Oddly enough, this was not an unfamiliar situation for Tony Gardner, as his work was investigated by FBI agents in Los Angeles several years earlier when a film lab called the police after viewing his work on an earlier film project.

Investigated by Arizona State Police and Missing Persons bureau for effects work done on Três Reis (1999) involving a bullet traveling through a soldier's body.

Daughter Brianna Gardner was in O Amor é Cego (2001) as Sick Kid #1 (Cadence). Tony recommended that the Farrellys audition her because she would be capable of tolerating the extensive prosthetic burn make-up, and she auditioned for and won the part.

Is also an Adjunct Professor at USC's School of Cinematic Arts.

The makeup design for Johnny Knoxvilles character in "Bad Grandpa" and all of the other "Jackass" movies was based on his own real grandfather, Fred Cooke from Cleveland, Ohio.

Started a branding and marketing company during the pandemic (Oxcart Assembly, LLC) with three other partners who have all only met in person one time - the day that they were all introduced to each other.