Richard A. Baker
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Richard A. "Rick" Baker (born December 8, 1950 in Binghamton, New York, USA) is a Hollywood special makeup effects artist known for his realistic creature effects. He is the winner of 6 Academy Awards for Best Makeup.
His extensive makeup work has ranged from low to high-budget film and TV projects, including The Thing with Two Heads (1972), It's Alive (1974), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), King Kong (1976), The Incredible Melting Man (1977), Star Wars (1977), An American Werewolf in London (1981) (for which he won the first make up Academy Award), Videodrome (1983), the television series Beauty and the Beast (1987 - 9), Coming To America (1988), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), The Rocketeer (1991), both Men in Black movies (1997 and 2002), both of Eddie Murphy's The Nutty Professor movies (1996 and 2000), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Planet of the Apes (2001), The Ring (2002), The Haunted Mansion (2003), and Hellboy (2004).
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Inducted to the Monster Kid Hall Of Fame at The Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards
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