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John Chambers (make-up artist), John Chambers (September 12, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois – August 25, 2001 in Woodland Hills, California) was a famous make-up artist who became a veteran in both television and film.[edit] BiographyFollowing service as a medical technician during World War II, Chambers found employment repairing faces and making prosthetic limbs for wounded veterans at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs hospital at Hines, Illinois.In 1953 he joined the NBC American television network working for many live shows for a six-year period. He worked on his first movie, Around the World in Eighty Days, then joined Universal Pictures. He attracted attention for his work in The List of Adrian Messenger that featured the gimmick of having the audience guess which famous stars were under Chambers makeup. Chambers also worked on The Munsters and The Outer Limits TV series.His work became known worldwide in the Planet of the Apes series, for which he won a special Academy Award. Chambers worked on the pilot of Mission Impossible and created the pointed ears worn by Leonard Nimoy in the original Star Trek television series.For his work in movies, Chambers has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.John Chambers was also given the highest civilian award from the CIA for his help with numerous transformations. Some of his work can be seen at the International Spy Museum in Washington D.C. He also set up the cover story of a film crew planning to shoot a science fiction film in Iran for his special effects colleague Tony Mendez in order to rescue some American embassy personnel who escaped capture by the Iranian militants in November 1979.Chambers was also accused of creating the Sasquatch in the Patterson-Gimlin film, but he denied this.[edit] Notes^ http://books.google.com.au/books?id=DlYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA82&dq=%22john+chambers%22+%2B+makeup&lr=&cd=11#v=onepage&q&f=false^ http://theforbidden-zone.com/news/chambersnews.shtml^ http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/cia-d12.shtml^ http://www.thetechnicaladvisor.com/pages/news/harrison_ford.html^ http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.05/feat_cia.html^ p. 169, Thomas, Kenn Popular Paranoia: A Steamshovel Press Anthology 2002 Adventures Unlimited Press[edit] External linksJohn Chambers at the Internet Movie DatabaseObituary http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-chambers-729387.htmlThis biographical article related to cinema of the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · eRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chambers_(make-up_artist)Categories: 1923 births | 2001 deaths | Academy Honorary Award recipients | American make-up artists | American film biography stubsHidden categories: Articles automatically tagged as unreferenced | Articles lacking sources from December 2009 | All articles lacking sourcesPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutschFrançaisPortuguês This page was last modified on 29 December 2010 at 20:18.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();