Stuart Freeborn

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Stuart Freeborn, 5 September 1914 – 5 February 2013, was an English motion picture make-up artist.

He has been referred to as the "grandfather of modern make-up design" and is perhaps best known for his contributions to the original Star Wars trilogy, most notably the creation and fabrication of Yoda.

Personal life

Freeborn in London died on February 5th, 2013 at the age of 98. In 2012, Kay's wife died. Roger, Ray, and Graham, three of Freeborn's three sons, as well as Graham, have predeceased him. Freeborn had eight grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

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Career

Freeborn's earliest film work was inventing the tumultuous hair and make-up worn by Alec Guinness, as Fagin, in Oliver Twist. Freeborn's most notable contribution to the Star Wars trilogy, including Chewbacca and Yoda, was to create the make-up for all of the characters; he based Yoda on his own face and partially on Albert Einstein. He oversaw the creation of the Ewoks as well as the creation of the original Jabba the Hutt puppet used in Return of the Jedi.

Freeborn was also the make-up artist on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, where he created the humans/apes for the "Dawn of Man" sequence. He appeared in multiple lead roles on Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. He appeared in several other films, including Heavens Above!, Mr. Topaze, The Mouse That Roared, and Soft Beds, Hard Battles, and Superman's make-up visual supervisor.

Kay's wife helped her husband on several occasions; their son Graham, a prolific make-up artist before his death in 1986, was also a prolific make-up artist.

In one of the web documentaries, he was given a statue by the Lucasfilm team in Episode I – The Phantom Menace DVD.

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