Phil Leakey

{{EngvarB|date=January 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2014}} '''Philip Leakey''' (4 May 1908 in London, England – 26 November 1992) was a British make-up artist known chiefly for his work on Hammer films. In 1956 he became the first make-up designer ever to receive on-screen credit for "special" make-up effects for his "bold and innovative" work in ''X the Unknown''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Phil Leakey|work=The Times|location=London|date=12 December 1992}}</ref>

He provided Christopher Lee's celebrated makeup for Hammer's ''The Curse of Frankenstein'' (1957), whose "monster" had to be memorable and terrifying without infringing the copyright on Universal's earlier makeup, created by Jack Pierce for Boris Karloff.

Leakey created make-up for ''Dracula'' and ''The Revenge of Frankenstein'' (both 1958) before leaving Hammer, disgusted by the cost-cutting measure by Hammer's associate producer, Anthony Nelson Keys, of revoking his retainer. His assistant, Roy Ashton, took charge of Hammer make-up from then onwards.<ref>Sachs & Wall, p. 40</ref>

==References== ;Footnotes {{reflist}} ;Bibliography *{{cite book|last=Kinsey|first=Wayne|title=Hammer Films: The Bray Studio Years|location=London|publisher=Reynolds & Hearn|year=2002|isbn=9781903111444}} * {{cite book | last=Sachs| first=Bruce| last2=Wall| first2=Russell| title=Greasepaint and Gore: The Hammer Monsters of Roy Ashton | publisher=Tomahawk Press| year=1999| isbn=9780953192601 }}

==External links== * {{IMDb name|0495039}}

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