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Layne Britton is a Actor and Makeup Artist born on 5 september 1907

Layne Britton

Layne Britton
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Birth 5 september 1907
Death 12 december 1993 (at 86 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Layne Britton (September 5, 1907 – December 12, 1993), sometimes credited as Shotgun Britton, was a makeup artist and actor in Hollywood from 1939 until 1989. He worked with many notable actors and musicians, such as Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, John Belushi, John Candy and Jane Russell. He had an extensive career in feature films and television, and a short career as an actor. He is buried in the Inglewood Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

Best films

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
(Makeup Artist)
Citizen Kane (1941)
(Makeup Artist)

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Filmography of Layne Britton (24 films)

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Actor

Meet the Hollowheads, 1h26
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror
Actors John Glover, Richard Portnow, Juliette Lewis, Matt Shakman, Joshua John Miller, Anne Ramsey
Rating53% 2.662692.662692.662692.662692.66269
Dans une société futuriste, un ouvrier subalterne (John Glover) invite son patron (Richard Portnow) à dîner pour s’imprégner de la hiérarchie de l’entreprise. Les deux commencent cependant à se disputer, et le repas tranquille devient laid.
The Blues Brothers, 2h7
Directed by John Landis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Le blues, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films, Chase films
Actors John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Steve Lawrence, Murphy Dunne
Roles The Cheese Whiz
Rating78% 3.9480753.9480753.9480753.9480753.948075
"Joliet" Jake Blues (John Belushi) is released from prison after serving three years for armed robbery. Jake is irritated at being picked up by his brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) in the Bluesmobile, a battered former Mount Prospect police car, instead of the Cadillac the brothers used to own. The brothers visit their childhood home, a Roman Catholic orphanage, and learn that it will be closed unless $5,000 in property taxes is collected. The brothers visit an evangelical church service where Jake has an epiphany: they can legitimately raise the funds by re-forming their rhythm and blues band. Elwood calls the quest "a mission from God.

Costume and makup

Tora! Tora! Tora!, 2h24
Directed by Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Martin Balsam, Joseph Cotten, Sō Yamamura, E. G. Marshall, James Whitmore, Jason Robards
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating74% 3.747633.747633.747633.747633.74763
In 1941, the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Sō Yamamura) and his predecessor, Zengo Yoshida (Junya Usami), discuss America's embargo that starves Japan of raw materials. While both agree that a war with the United States would be a complete disaster, army hotheads and politicians push through an alliance with Germany and start planning for war. With the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto orders the planning of a preventive strike, believing Japan's only hope is to annihilate the American Pacific fleet at the outset of hostilities.
The Detective, 1h54
Directed by Gordon Douglas, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Films about terrorism, LGBT-related films, Films about capital punishment, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Jacqueline Bisset, Ralph Meeker, Jack Klugman, William Windom
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating64% 3.245963.245963.245963.245963.24596
New York City police detective Joe Leland is called to the home of a murder victim who has been beaten to death and has had his genitals removed. Puzzled and disgusted, the police on call are left bemused, Leland holding things together with his direct, no-nonsense approach.
Lady in Cement, 1h30
Directed by Gordon Douglas, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Richard Conte, Dan Blocker, Martin Gabel, Lainie Kazan
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating58% 2.904012.904012.904012.904012.90401
While diving off the Miami coast seeking one of the eleven fabled Spanish Galleons sunk in 1591, private investigator Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) discovers a dead blonde, her feet encased in cement, at the bottom of the ocean.
I'll Take Sweden, 1h37
Directed by Frederick de Cordova
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Bob Hope, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon, Dina Merrill, Roy Roberts, John Qualen
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating52% 2.606222.606222.606222.606222.60622
Single father Bob Holcomb (Hope), a widower, is unhappy with the guitar-playing boy (Avalon) his daughter JoJo (Weld) chooses as a husband-to-be. An executive with an oil company, Bob accepts a transfer to the firm's Stockholm branch and he takes JoJo along, hoping it will distract her.
By Love Possessed, 1h55
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist II, Jason Robards, George Hamilton, Susan Kohner, Thomas Mitchell
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating54% 2.7059552.7059552.7059552.7059552.705955
In a Massachusetts law firm, Arthur Winner, Julius Penrose and Noah Tuttle are equal partners. Each has an ongoing problem in his personal life.
The Facts of Life, 1h43
Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore, Louis Nye, Philip Ober
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating62% 3.143123.143123.143123.143123.14312
As the yearly vacation of six neighbors, the Gilberts, Masons, and Weavers, approaches, Kitty Weaver (Lucille Ball) and Larry Gilbert (Bob Hope) find themselves frustrated with the routine. When both their spouses (Ruth Hussey and Don DeFore) are kept away from the vacation, Kitty and Larry find themselves alone in Acapulco, with the Masons (Philip Ober and Marianne Stewart) bedridden with illness. Forced together, Kitty and Larry fall in love. Once the vacation is over, however, they have difficulties in either abandoning or continuing their romance.
Escort West
Directed by Francis D. Lyon
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Victor Mature, Elaine Stewart, Faith Domergue, Noah Beery, Jr, Rex Ingram, Leo Gordon
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating61% 3.0956553.0956553.0956553.0956553.095655
Un ancien soldat de l'armée conférée voyage avec sa fille en direction de l'ouest. En chemin, il vient à la rescousse de deux femmes ayant survécu à une attaque des indiens.
Guns, Girls and Gangsters, 1h10
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Mamie Van Doren, Gerald Mohr, Lee Van Cleef, Grant Richards, Paul Fix, Sol Gorss
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating61% 3.096753.096753.096753.096753.09675
Chuck Wheeler is released from prison and begins to set up an elaborate heist of an armored truck carrying money from a Las Vegas casino. Chuck enlists the help of nightclub owner Joe Darren as well as Vi Victor, a sensational blonde who is married to Chuck's ex-cellmate Mike Bennett. Mike is a very jealous and dangerous man who will not grant Vi a divorce. He escapes from prison just before the armored truck robbery is set to take place and starts to cause havoc when he locates Chuck, Joe and his unfaithful wife.
Porgy and Bess, 2h18
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on operas
Actors Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, Brock Peters
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating69% 3.4937153.4937153.4937153.4937153.493715
Set in the early 1900s in the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina, which serves as home to a black fishing community, the story focuses on the titular characters, crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, and the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully. While high on cocaine supplied by Sportin' Life, Crown kills Robbins after the latter vanquishes him in a craps game; Bess urges Crown to flee. Sportin' Life suggests she accompany him to New York City, an offer Bess declines. She seeks refuge with her neighbors, all of whom refuse to help her. Porgy finally agrees to let her stay with him.
A Dog's Best Friend, 1h10
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Bill Williams, Roger Mobley, Roy Engel, Harry Dean Stanton, George Eldredge, Herman Hack
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating58% 2.917192.917192.917192.917192.91719
This script must be run from the command line
China Doll
China Doll (1958)
, 1h39
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Victor Mature, Ward Bond, Li Li-Hua, Stuart Whitman, Elaine Devry, Denver Pyle
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating60% 3.0020153.0020153.0020153.0020153.002015
In 1943, Captain Cliff Brandon (Victor Mature) is a cargo aircraft pilot supplying the Allied troops fighting the Japanese in China. When he is not flying or training his new crew hard, he is usually drinking in the local bar.
Curse of the Faceless Man, 1h7
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Horror
Actors Richard Anderson, Adele Mara, Luis van Rooten, Morris Ankrum, George Sawaya
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating48% 2.412372.412372.412372.412372.41237
The petrified body of a gladiator is discovered at Pompeii, wearing a bronze medallion with Etruscan writing on it. An Italian archeologist, Maria Fiorillo (Adele Mara), believes that the robust body is still alive, but Dr. Paul Mallon (Richard Anderson) does not believe her. Every time someone is left alone with the body, they die, with their skulls crushed. Tina Enright (Elaine Edwards) begins to have strange visions and believes that what she knows about the "faceless man" is true.