Joe Blasco
Joe Blasco was born in Pennsylvania on April 30th, 1947 and is the Makeup Artist. At the age of 76, Joe Blasco biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Joe Blasco (born April 30, 1947 in Jeannette, Pennsylvania) is an American makeup artist.
He has worked for 50 years in Hollywood as well as accompanied major film productions.
He also founded his own cosmetics company, the Joe Blasco School.
In the 1970s and 1980s Blasco worked for the major American television shows, including The Red Skelton Show, Jim Nabors Show, Barney Miller, The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, General Hospital, Good Morning America, and The Carol Burnett Show.
Blasco was also the personal makeup artist of Orson Welles, Olivia Newton-John, Marlene Dietrich, Lauren Bacall and Bette Midler, among others.
Blasco designed the makeup found in the movies Garden Of Eden, Albert Einstein – The Man Behind the Genius, Leonardo da Vinci, Ilsa She Wolf of the SS, The Werewolf of Woodstock, and David Cronenberg's Shivers.
He is often credited as inventing the bladder technique presented in horror movies, as well as special effects such as bulging blisters and rashes on the skin.
In 1976 he opened the Joe Blasco Make-up Training Center in Hollywood.
The school was so successful that he was able to open a second center in Orlando, Florida in 1991.
Since 1983, he creates his own cosmetics products that are sold worldwide.
Blasco was honored in 2004 with the "Distinguished Achievement Award" in the category makeup of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT).
Career
Blasco has worked in Hollywood for 50 years and founded his own cosmetics business in 1983. He established the Joe Blasco Make-up Training Center in Hollywood in 1973 and later opened a second location in Orlando, Florida. He appeared on a number of television shows during the 1970s and 1980s, including The Red Skelton Show, The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, The Newly Wed Game, General Hospital, Good Morning America, and The Carol Burnett Exhibition. He supervised makeup for films including Ilsa Shewolf of the SS, Albert Einstein – The Man Behind the Genius, The Werewolf of Woodstock, and Shivers, as the personal makeup artist for actors including Orson Welles, Olivia Newton-John, Marlene Dietrich, Lauren Bacall, and Bette Midler. He has been credited with inventing the bladder technique used in horror films as well as special effects such as blisters and skin rashes. He was given a prestigious achievement award by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology in 2004.