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John Chambers is a Actor, Makeup Designer and Makeup Effects American born on 12 september 1922 at Chicago (USA)

John Chambers

John Chambers
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Nationality USA
Birth 12 september 1922 at Chicago (USA)
Death 25 august 2001 (at 78 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)

John Chambers (September 12, 1922 – August 25, 2001) was an award-winning American make-up artist and prosthetic makeup expert who became a veteran in both television and film. He was also a recipient of an Academy Honorary Award by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1968. He is most known for pointy ears of character Spock in TV series Star Trek (1966) played by Leonard Nimoy and make up in Planet of the Apes film series, made 1968 to 1973.

He was awarded CIA's Intelligence Medal of Merit for his involvement in the Canadian Caper, in which six American hostages escaped, during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, which later became the basis of Academy Award for Best Picture-winning film Argo.

Biography

Il est particulièrement connu pour ses maquillages sur la série de films La Planète des singes et sur la série télévisée Star Trek.

En 1980, il prend part au subterfuge canadien, pour libérer des otages américains lors de la crise iranienne des otages et reçoit l'Intelligence Medal de la CIA . Il apparaît ainsi sous les traits de John Goodman dans le film Argo (2012) qui retrace cette opération.

Best films

Planet of the Apes (1968)
(Makeup Designer)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
(Makeup Designer)
Phantom of the Paradise (1975)
(Makeup Designer)

Usually with

Russ Meyer
Russ Meyer
(1 films)
John Landis
John Landis
(2 films)
Felix Silla
Felix Silla
(3 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of John Chambers (13 films)

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Actor

Inside Out
Inside Out (2011)
, 1h33
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Michael Rapaport, Triple H, Parker Posey, Michael Cudlitz, Julie White, Bruce Dern
Roles Store Clerk
Rating45% 2.2590452.2590452.2590452.2590452.259045
A.J., an ex-con who served 13 years in Angola for manslaughter, returns home to New Orleans and fights to protect the woman he loves and her young daughter from his dangerous former best friend. In better times, AJ (Triple H) would have done anything to protect his best friend, Jack (Michael Rapaport), a two-bit gangster and the son of Dr. Vic (Bruce Dern) -- the city's toughest crime boss. While A.J. is in prison, Jack marries Claire (Parker Posey), the love of AJ's life, and together they raise a daughter, Pepper (Juliette Goglia). Pepper is A.J.'s daughter, a fact known to Jack, but Jack pretends to be her biological father. The day Jack picks up AJ from prison, the short-fused thug gets an itchy trigger finger that could land his buddy right back behind bars. The situation grows increasingly tense as Dr. Vic attempts to handle the situation quietly as he comes under investigation by the Louisiana Tax Board agent Martha (Julie White) for dealing in untaxed cigarettes. When Jack flees and Dr. Vic decides that the only way to get the job done right is to do it himself, A.J. realizes that Claire and Pepper are in mortal danger, and races to their rescue.
Schlock
Schlock (1973)
, 1h20
Directed by John Landis
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Comedy horror films
Actors John Landis, John Chambers, Forrest J Ackerman, Donald F. Glut
Roles National Guard Captain
Rating56% 2.8033852.8033852.8033852.8033852.803385
Schlock is a prehistoric apeman who falls in love with a teenage blind beauty and terrorizes her Southern California suburb. Schlock is no ordinary simian as he possesses some very unusual skills. Among other things, he plays the piano and gives TV interviews. In this spoof of early monster movies and missing-link science fiction films, John Landis pays homage to the monster movies of the past with irreverent humor and wacky hijinks.

Costume and makup

Phantom of the Paradise, 1h32
Directed by Brian De Palma
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Demons in film, Musical films, Comedy horror films, Children's films
Actors Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, George Memmoli, Gerrit Graham, Rod Serling
Roles Makeup Designer
Rating73% 3.651783.651783.651783.651783.65178
The story follows music composer/singer Winslow Leach, seen by satanic record producer Swan during his performance as a back-up to the 1950s-style nostalgia band The Juicy Fruits, which Swan produces. Swan believes Winslow's music perfect to open "The Paradise" – Swan's highly anticipated new concert hall – and has his right-hand man Arnold Philbin steal it. One month later Winslow goes to Swan's Death Records to inquire about his music but he is thrown out. He sneaks into Swan's private mansion, and observes several women rehearsing his music for an audition. One is Phoenix, an aspiring singer, whom Winslow deems perfect for his music and the two quickly fall for one another. Winslow realizes Swan's plan to open the Paradise with his music. Winslow sneaks in and Swan orders his minions to beat up Winslow and frame him for drug dealing.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes, 1h33
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about apes, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Disaster films
Actors Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, Paul Williams
Roles Makeup Designer
Rating54% 2.703862.703862.703862.703862.70386
Told as a flashback to the early 21st century with a wraparound sequence narrated by the orangutan Lawgiver (John Huston) in "North America - 2670 A.D.", this sequel follows the ape leader, Caesar (Roddy McDowall), years after a global nuclear war has destroyed civilization. In this post-nuclear society, Caesar tries to cultivate peace between the apes and the surviving humans. A gorilla general named Aldo (Claude Akins), however, opposes this and plots Caesar's downfall. Caesar is married to Lisa (Natalie Trundy), the female ape of the previous film, and they have a son, named Cornelius (Bobby Porter) in honor of Caesar's father.
Sssssss
Sssssss (1973)
, 1h35
Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about snakes, Reptile
Actors Dirk Benedict, Strother Martin, Heather Menzies, Reb Brown, Jack Ging, Richard B. Shull
Roles Special Effects Makeup Artist
Rating54% 2.7000452.7000452.7000452.7000452.700045
The movie begins with Dr. Carl Stoner (Martin) selling a mysterious creature in a crate to a carnival owner. It is later discovered that the creature is actually part-man/part-snake, the result of one of Stoner's bizarre experiments. College student David Blake (Benedict) is hired as an assistant by Stoner, an ophiologist. It transpires that Stoner's previous assistant had mysteriously left town without telling anyone (Stoner explains that he had gone back home to attend to a sick relative).
Superbeast
Superbeast (1972)
, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Antoinette Bower, Harry Lauter, Vic Díaz, Roderick Paulate
Roles Special Effects Makeup Artist
Rating32% 1.607671.607671.607671.607671.60767
This script must be run from the command line
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, 1h28
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Time travel films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about apes, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Disaster films
Actors Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalbán, Natalie Trundy, John Randolph, Hari Rhodes
Roles Makeup Designer
Rating61% 3.051173.051173.051173.051173.05117
The opening titles set the film in "North America – 1991." Armando (Ricardo Montalbán) explains that in 1983 (ten years after the end of Escape from the Planet of the Apes, which was set two years ahead of its theatrical release date), a disease killed the world's cats and dogs, leaving humans with no pets. To replace them, humans began keeping apes as household pets. Realizing the apes' capacity to learn and adapt, humans train them to perform household tasks. By 1991, American culture is based on ape slave labor (just as Cornelius described would happen in the previous film). It is also suggested that the North America of the 1990s is at least partly a police state, as apes and humans are being watched at all times.
Slaughterhouse-Five, 1h44
Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Historical, Comic science fiction
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Time travel films, Films based on science fiction novels, Comedy science fiction films, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Valerie Perrine, Eugene Roche, Perry King, Sharon Gans
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating67% 3.397383.397383.397383.397383.39738
The film follows the novel in presenting a first-person narrative from the point of view of Billy Pilgrim (Sacks), who becomes "unstuck in time" and experiences the events of his life in a seemingly random order, including a period spent on the alien planet of Tralfamadore. Particular emphasis is placed on his experiences during World War II, including the bombing of Dresden in World War II, as well as time spent with fellow prisoners of war Edgar Derby (Roche) and the psychopathic Paul Lazzaro (Leibman). His life as a husband to Valencia (Gans), and father to Barbara (Near) and Robert (King) are also depicted, as they live and sometimes even enjoy their life of affluence in Ilium, New York. A "sink-or-swim" scene with Pilgrim's father is also featured. The scenes of extraterrestrial life on Tralfamadore feature Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack (Perrine).
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, 1h50
Directed by Russ Meyer, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Erotic, Thriller, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about television, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Musical films, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Cynthia Myers, Erica Gavin, Edy Williams, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett, Charles Napier
Roles Special Effects Makeup Artist
Rating61% 3.050683.050683.050683.050683.05068
Three young women—Kelly MacNamara (Dolly Read), Casey Anderson (Cynthia Myers), and Petronella "Pet" Danforth (Marcia McBroom)—perform in a rock band, The Kelly Affair, managed by Harris Allsworth (David Gurian), Kelly's boyfriend. The four travel to Los Angeles to find Kelly's estranged aunt, Susan Lake (Phyllis Davis), heiress to a family fortune.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes, 1h35
Directed by Chuck Roberson, Ted Post
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Time travel films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about apes, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, David Watson, Roddy McDowall, Linda Harrison
Roles Makeup Designer
Rating60% 3.0022953.0022953.0022953.0022953.002295
Following the events of Planet of the Apes, time-displaced astronaut Taylor (Charlton Heston) and the mute Nova (Linda Harrison) are riding on horseback through the desert of the Forbidden Zone. Without warning, fire shoots up from the ground and deep chasms open. Confused by the strange phenomenon, Taylor investigates a cliff wall and disappears before Nova's eyes.
Planet of the Apes, 1h52
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Films about animals, Films about computing, Post-apocalyptic films, Psychologie, Films about racism, Films about religion, Time travel films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about apes, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, Lobotomie
Actors Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, James Whitmore, James Daly
Roles Makeup Designer
Rating79% 3.9973.9973.9973.9973.997
Astronauts Taylor (Charlton Heston), Landon (Robert Gunner), Dodge (Jeff Burton) and Stewart are in deep hibernation when their spaceship crashes in a lake on an unknown planet after a long near-light speed voyage, during which, due to time dilation, the crew ages only 18 months. As the ship sinks, Taylor finds Stewart dead and her body desiccated. They throw an inflatable raft from the ship and climb down into it; before departing the ship, Taylor notes that the date is November 25, AD 3978, approximately two millennia after their departure in 1972. Once ashore, Dodge performs a soil test and pronounces the soil incapable of sustaining life.
The Human Duplicators, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Richard Kiel, Hugh Beaumont, George Nader, George Macready, Dolores Faith, Barbara Nichols
Roles Special Effects Makeup Artist
Rating32% 1.624411.624411.624411.624411.62441
Giant alien Dr. Kolos (Richard Kiel) is dispatched to Earth from a faraway galaxy with orders to create android doppelgängers in order to infiltrate human society by employing the scientific services of hypnotized cyberneticist Prof. Vaughn Dornheimer (George Macready). This mission of colonization is thwarted not by the FBI agents sent to investigate but by Kolos falling in love with the scientist's beautiful blind niece Lisa (Dolores Faith).
The List of Adrian Messenger, 1h34
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors George C. Scott, Dana Wynter, Kirk Douglas, Paul Frees, John Merivale, Clive Brook
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating67% 3.397193.397193.397193.397193.39719
A writer named Adrian Messenger (John Merivale) believes a series of apparently unrelated "accidental" deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn (George C. Scott), recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, Messenger's plane is bombed while he is en route to collect evidence to confirm his suspicions and, with his dying breath, he tries to tell a fellow passenger the key to the mystery.

Team

Sssssss
Sssssss (1973)
, 1h35
Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about snakes, Reptile
Actors Dirk Benedict, Strother Martin, Heather Menzies, Reb Brown, Jack Ging, Richard B. Shull
Roles Makeup Effects
Rating54% 2.7000452.7000452.7000452.7000452.700045
The movie begins with Dr. Carl Stoner (Martin) selling a mysterious creature in a crate to a carnival owner. It is later discovered that the creature is actually part-man/part-snake, the result of one of Stoner's bizarre experiments. College student David Blake (Benedict) is hired as an assistant by Stoner, an ophiologist. It transpires that Stoner's previous assistant had mysteriously left town without telling anyone (Stoner explains that he had gone back home to attend to a sick relative).
Superbeast
Superbeast (1972)
, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Antoinette Bower, Harry Lauter, Vic Díaz, Roderick Paulate
Roles Makeup Effects
Rating32% 1.607671.607671.607671.607671.60767
This script must be run from the command line