Monty Westmore Biography

Montague George "Monty" Westmore (June 12, 1923 – November 13, 2007) was part of the third generation of the Westmore family of American make-up artists in film and television who worked on over 75 films and television series since 1950. He was the brother of make-up artist Michael Westmore and uncle of actress McKenzie Westmore.

Westmore spent seven seasons as make-up artist on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. He was screen legend Joan Crawford's personal make-up artist on the films What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and Strait-Jacket and was a beneficiary of Crawford's will after her death in 1977. Westmore later served as Paul Newman's personal make-up artist on seventeen of the actor's films over the course of nearly three decades.

Westmore shared the 1991 Best Makeup Academy Award nomination for his work as *istant makeup supervisor on Steven Spielberg's Hook. He also received an Emmy Award nomination for the 1983 ABC drama Who Will Love My Children? starring Ann-Margret, and again in the 1996 HBO movie The Late Shift.

Westmore died in Woodland Hills, California in 2007 of prostate cancer.

Partial filmography

  • The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - 1958-66
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - 1962
  • The Towering Inferno - 1974
  • 3 Women - 1977
  • The Verdict - 1982
  • Airplane II: The Sequel - 1982
  • Who Will Love My Children? - 1983
  • National Lampoon's European Vacation - 1985
  • Stand by Me - 1986
  • The Color of Money - 1986
  • Alien Nation - 1988
  • Fat Man and Little Boy - 1989
  • Hook - 1991 (Academy Award nominee for Best Makeup)
  • Chaplin - 1992
  • Jur*ic Park - 1993
  • The Hudsucker Proxy - 1994
  • The Shawshank Redemption - 1994
  • Nobody's Fool - 1994
  • Outbreak - 1995
  • Se7en - 1995
  • The Late Shift - 1996 (Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Miniseries or a Special)
  • Star Trek: First Contact - 1996
  • Star Trek: Insurrection - 1998
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas - 2000

See also

  • Westmore family

References

    • Westmore, Frank; Davidson, Muriel (1976). The Westmores of Hollywood. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. ISBN:0-397-01102-4.
    • Variety Staff writers (November 13, 2007). "Monty Westmore, 84, makeup artist". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-20.

    External links

    • Monty Westmore at IMDb
    • Monty Westmore at Memory Alpha

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