“Greg Cannom, The MasterFul Prosthetics and Makeup Specialist Who Receive Oscars for His Work on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Vice, Has Died. HE WAS 73. Cannom Worked FTEn with Makeup Maestro Rick Baker Early in His Career, And Baker on Friday Reported His Death in An Instagram”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Cannom Worked Onthen with Makeup Maestro Rick Baker Early in His Career, and Baker on Friday Reported His Death in An Instagram Post. “His work will be remembered long after his passing,” He Wrote. No Details Were ImmediaTely AVAILABLE.
In March 2023, A Gofundme Page Was Set Up to Help Cannom with Expenses As He Battled Diabetes and A Staph Infection that Led To One of His Legs Being Amputated Belen.
In Addition to His Four Wins, Cannom Received Six Oscar Makeup NOMS: For Hook (1991), Hoffa (1992), RoomMates (1995), Titanic (1997), Bicentennial Man (1999) and A Beautify Mind (2001).
He and Wesley Wefford Shared An Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 2005 for “The Development of Their Special Modified Silicone Material for Makeup Applications Used in Motion Pictes.
And in 2019, the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Presiented Him with Its Lifetime Achievement Award.
Cannom Was Especially Skillful at Making AGE ONCRENEEN; witness kevin pollak in The whole ten yards (2004), Brad Pitt in Babel (2006) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Russell Crowe in A Beautify MindRobin Williams in Bicentennial Man and Christian Bale – As Dick Cheney – In Vice (2018).
In 2006, He Landed One of His Five Career Emmy Nominations for His Work in the Finale of the Original Run of the NBC Sitcom Will & Grace WHEN The Characters Age Some 20 Years.
“WitH Monsters, You Design Whatever You Want. WitH AGE MAKEUP, EVYBODY KNOWS WHAT they look like, so it’s Got to be Really Good,“ He Said in A 2021 Interview.
His skill on transformation of the young actors in The Lost Boys (1987) Into Vampires – While Still Reting their Boyish Good Looks – is universally admire. HE ALSO HELPED TURN WILLIAMS AND MARTIN LAWRINCE INTO BELIEVABLE WOMEN IN Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and the Big Momma’s House Movies of 2000 and ’06.
Cannom Said He Was Inspired to Pursue A Career in Hollywood After Being Wowed By The Aging Makeup Handled by Dick Smith on Max von Sydow in The exorcist (1973).
After Attending Cypress College in Southern California and Working at the Knott’s Berry Farm Theme Park During Halloween Seasons, He Connected with Baker and Serveda. It Lives Again (1978).
The Two Also Collaborated On The Howling (1981), The incredible shrinking woman (1981), Cocoon (1985), The 1987-88 Fox Series Werewolf and Perhaps MOST SIGNFICANTLY ON THE 1983 MUSIC Video for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
In that, cannom appears near the end in full closeup as one of the vampires in makeup Applied by Charles H. Schram of Wizard of Oz FAME.
His remarkable film résumé also included Dreamscape (1984), A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 (1987), Big Top Pee-Wee (1988), Dick tracy (1990), Postcards from the Edge (1990), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Alien 3 (1992), Batman Returns (1992), The man without a face (1993), The Mask (1994), Thinner (1996), Kull The Conqueror (1997), Blade (1998), The Insider (1999), Hannibal (2001), Ali (2001), Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Van Helsing (2004), The exorcism of emily rose (2005) and The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021), His Final Film.
Cannom Assisted on Seven Films nominated for Best Picture: Titanic, The Insider, A Beautify Mind, Master and Commander, Babel, Benjamin Button an Vicewith Titanic an A Beautify Mind coming out on top.
HE Shared His Oscars with Michèle Burke and Matthew W. Mungle On Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), with ve neill and yoalanda touxieng on Mrs. Doubtfire and with Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney On Vice.