HOW DO YOU MAKE an actor cry on screen and why was it so difficult to create a MASK for 'The Phantom of the Opera'? Here's some answers in a little teaser clip of a PCASUK video interview with Hammer and Amicus films ace make up artist Roy Ashton at his home in 1983. During his long career Roy worked many times with #PeterCushing #ChristopherLee also #VincentPrice #JohnCarradine #VeronicaCarlson #BarbraShelley, just about every Brit fantasy actor and many others, from the mid 1950's until the end of his career in 1988. We interviewed Roy first in 1980, when he was made an honorary member of PCASUK along with Vincent Price, Milton Subotsky, Ingrid Pitt and Geofreffy Bayldon. Maybe his stand out creation on screen was Oliver Reed's lycanthrope in Hammer's 'Curse of the Werewolf', Christopher Lee's Kharis in 'The Mummy' and his uncredited assistance with Christopher Lee's first appearance as Dracula in Hammer's 'Dracula' in 1958. Maybe you have your own fav and opinion on the best of Roy Ashton's work? Please feel free to click this link to see the clip and maybe share your thoughts on the page too? Link HERE!
ALSO POSTING THIS TODAY, over at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page to see how many of you grabbed this excellent book, back in
the day? ' Greasepaint and Gore' by Bruce Sachs and Russell Wall,
published by their company Tomahawk, a few years ago now. It's a
interesting read, with some lovely illustrations of Roy's sketches and
personal reference photographs.
THERE WAS ALSO A DVD, you could order which covered the career of Hammer's first make up artist, Phil Leakey. A very good interview. When I bought my copy of the dvd, I wondered why there wasn't any video interview footage of Roy. I met Bruce at a function a short while after the book and dvd had been launched, and ask him, why no Roy interview footage in the dvd. 'There isn't any footage of Roy being interviewed and he has now sadly passed!' he said. It was then I realised, being out of the loop for so long, he sadly knew nothing of the three hour interview I shot at Roy's home back in 1983!
HOW ANNOYING AND FRUSTRATING! Maybe a missed opportunity. The footage is still unedited, raw material on a blu ray conversion disc. Maybe one day . . ? You can still grab a copy of Bruce's book though. Lots of copies on ebay. Here are a few pages, for you to sample too.. if you have a copy, let us know and share what you think of it at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page!
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