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Jack H. Young
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Cinematographer, Makeup, Makeup Special Effects Biography:Jack H. Young was one of Hollywood's longer active makeup men, from the 1930s and movies like The Good Earth and The Wizard of Oz at MGM to Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979). Jack Haydn Young was born in Illinois in 1910 and was trained as an artist and sculptor. He joined MGM in 1932, at age 21, during the depths of the Great Depression, working as an office boy. He quickly moved into the makeup department under its director, Jack Dawn, and worked on many of the studio's top productions of the 1930s, most notably The Wizard of Oz (1939), which employed dozens of artists in the makeup, costuming, and effects fields, and used thousands of makeup appliances on its myriad fantasy characters. He remained active for the next 40 years, though not without occasionally stooping down to independent productions such as Bert I. Gordon's The Cyclops (1957) and War of the Colossal Beast (1958). Both movies'... Full Biography
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