Joe Blasco

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Joe Blasco
Born (1947-04-30) April 30, 1947 (age 77)
Jeannette, Pennsylvania
Websitewww.joeblasco.com

Joe Blasco (born April 30, 1947, in Jeannette, Pennsylvania) is an American makeup artist.[1]

Career

Blasco has worked in Hollywood for 50 years and founded his own cosmetics company in 1983. In 1973, he founded the Joe Blasco Make-up Training Center in Hollywood and later opened a second location in Orlando, Florida in 1991. During the 1970s and 1980s, he worked on a variety of television shows, including The Red Skelton Show, The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, General Hospital, Good Morning America, and The Carol Burnett Show. He directed makeup for films such as Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS, Albert Einstein – The Man Behind the Genius, The Werewolf of Woodstock, and Shivers and was the personal makeup artist for actors such as Orson Welles, Olivia Newton-John, Marlene Dietrich, Lauren Bacall, and Bette Midler. He has been credited with inventing the bladder technique found in horror movies as well as special effects such as blisters and skin rashes. In 2004, he was given a distinguished achievement award in the makeup category from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Buttsworth, Sara (2010). Monsters in the Mirror: Representations of Nazism in Post-war Popular. p. 105. I hired this young make-up guy named Joe Blasco, and he got into it. He came up with some of the greatest effects I've ever seen. Later on he became head of make-up at ABC and runs a series of schools on make-up.
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