Leonard Engelman, a respected makeup artist who has worked on film productions including Rocky IV, princess diary, batman and robin and How the Grinch Stole Christmas He has been doing makeup for Cher for more than 30 years and has passed away now. He is 83 years old.
Artist Esther Engelman told Engelman his wife of 42 years died Thursday at Northridge Hospital Medical Center hollywood reporter. The cause of death was unclear, she said.
Engelman, the son of a Hollywood makeup artist, spent a long time convincing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to establish a makeup chapter because those makeup artists had always been members of “At Large.” In 2006, he was elected as his first governor. Later, he worked hard to hire a hairstylist.
He also served as associate dean of the college and a member of the board of trustees for many years.
In 1972, Engerman was nominated for an Emmy for “Episode” Night Gallery 2001 miniseries Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, starring Joanne Wiley. In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hollywood Makeup Artists and Hairstylists Association.
As Cher’s personal makeup artist, Engerman works with the actress and fashion icon on photo and film shoots Moonlight hits (1987), Suspect (1987), Witches of Eastwick (1987), Mermaid (1990), Credible (1996), Tea with Mussolini (1999) and Burlesque (2010).
Just minutes after she was announced as the Oscar winner for Best Actress Moonlight hits In 1988, the first person she thanked from the podium in the shrine auditorium was her “make-up artist, who had a lot of work to do.”
During his 50-year career, Engerman also did makeup for Sylvester Stallone. Rambo: Rambo Part 2 (1985), Rocky IV (1985) and cobra (1986).
He explained in a 2019 interview that during their first collaboration, he was the first to use silicone instead of rubber (rubber doesn’t absorb sweat) to create the “skin patches” on Stallone’s face that were used to treat swelling, bruises, cuts, etc. appliance”.
Engerman also worked with Debra Winger Betrayed (1988), everyone wins (1990) and wilder napalm (1993) and with Meg Ryan Joe versus the volcano (1990), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), meat and bones (1993) and When a man falls in love with a woman (1994).
Leonard Alex Engelman, who had the same first, middle and last name, was born on May 9, 1941, in Burbank, the son of a makeup artist who worked on many 1940s celebrities. He worked on Westerns in the 1990s and died at the age of 11.
Engerman graduated from Burbank High School, found a job at Universal Pictures, and received his first credits in Alfred Hitchcock films topaz (1969).
His resume also includes movies black stallion (1979), cat people (1982), Ghostbusters (1984), beverly hills cop (1984), twin (1988), Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), hot (1995) and The great and powerful land of Oz (2013) and TV show cagney and lacey and shield.
Engelman trained generations of artists at Los Angeles’ film makeup school and was a beloved member of Local 706, the Makeup and Hairstylists Guild, for more than 50 years.
In addition to his wife, survivors include their children, Steven, Kimberly, Anna and Jennifer (also a makeup artist), and six grandchildren.
“When I first started working as a makeup artist, I was told that if you want to be a really good makeup artist, you have to study everything, you have to study beauty, all the characters, all the aging, all the hair work, all the Bruises, prosthetics,” he once said. “I tried my best to learn all of them.”
Scott Feinberg contributed to this report.
