Richard Alan "Rick" Baker (born December 8, 1950) is a retired American special make-up effects creator and actor. He is mostly known for his creature designs and effects. Baker has won the

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a record seven times from a record eleven nominations, beginning when he won the inaugural award for the 1981

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film ''

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''.

Early life

Baker was born on December 8, 1950, in

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, to Doris (

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Hamlin), a bank teller, and Ralph B. Baker, a professional artist. He and his family moved to

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when he was less than one year old.

Career

As a teenager, Baker began creating artificial body parts in his own kitchen. He also appeared briefly in the fan production ''The Night Turkey'', a one-hour, black-and-white video parody of '' The Night Stalker'' (1972), directed by William Malone. Among Baker's first professional jobs was assisting

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effects veteran Dick Smith on the 1973 film ''

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''. While working on ''The Exorcist'', Baker was hired by director

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to design and create a

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infant for Cohen's 1974 film '' It's Alive''. At the

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, Baker received the inaugural

for his work on ''

'' (1981). Subsequently, he has been nominated for Best Makeup ten more times, winning on seven occasions, both records in his field. Baker also created the

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creature

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transforms into in the music video ''

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'' (1983). In 2008, he was awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters from the

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. Baker also contributes commentaries to the

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'' for

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about horror and science fiction films. Baker claims that his work on ''

Harry and the Hendersons ''Harry and the Hendersons'' is a 1987 American fantasy comedy film directed and produced by William Dear and starring John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, Don Ameche, David Suchet, Margaret Langrick, Joshua Rudoy, Lainie Kazan, and Kevin Peter Hal ...

'' (1987) is one of his proudest achievements, for which he won his second Oscar. On October 3, 2009, he received the Jack Pierce Lifetime Achievement Award at the Chiller-Eyegore Awards. On November 30, 2012, Baker received the 2485th star of the

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. The star is located in front of the Guinness World Records Museum. On May 28, 2015, Baker announced his retirement, saying: "First of all, the CG stuff definitely took away the animatronics part of what I do. It's also starting to take away the makeup part. The time is right, I am 64 years old, and the business is crazy right now. I like to do things right, and they wanted cheap and fast. That is not what I want to do, so I just decided it is basically time to get out. I would consider designing and consulting on something, but I don't think I will have a huge working studio anymore." In 2018, when Baker's daughter Veronica was working at

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, he was approached by DC to design a collectible display bust. He agreed on the condition of total creative freedom; working with his long-time mold maker Rob Freitas, he created a bust of

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Acting roles

Baker played the

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in the 1976 remake of ''King Kong''. He had initially only been hired to create an ape suit that would fill in for scenes where it was not practical to use a life-sized mechanical version of Kong that had been designed by

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, but problems with Rambaldi's creation resulted in Baker playing Kong on-screen for almost all of the film. In the 2005 remake, he had a cameo as the pilot and gunner (with director

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) who shot down Kong. He has also made cameo appearances in:

's music video ''

'' (1983) as "Zombie Opening the Crypt"; '' Into the Night'' (1985) as a drug dealer with a business card; ''

Men in Black II ''Men in Black II'' (stylized as ''MIIB'') is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film based on the Marvel Comics series of a similar name based on the conspiracy theory. Produced by Columbia Pictures and Amblin Entertainment in ass ...

'' (2002) as "MIB Passport Control Agent", an MIB agent helping provide aliens with disguises; ''

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'' (2012) as "Brain Alien"; '' The Wolfman'' (2010) as "Gypsy Man / First Killed"; ''The Strain'' as a convenience store customer (2014, Episode 8, uncredited) and '' Rings'' (2017) as a flea market vendor.

Personal life

Baker is married; he was previously married to Elaine Melba Parkyn for ten years. He met his second wife, hairstylist Silvia Abascal, while they were both working on '' Into the Night'' (1985). Baker and Abascal had their first daughter 1989 and their second in 1993.

Selected filmography

* ''

Octaman ''Octaman'' is a 1971 Mexican-American science-fiction monster film written and directed by Harry Essex, with the costume design by future Academy Award winner Rick Baker. It follows an expedition team that becomes the target of a murderous huma ...

'' (1971) (Octaman costume; co-created with Doug Beswick) * ''

The Thing with Two Heads ''The Thing with Two Heads'' is a 1972 American blaxploitation science fiction comedy film directed by Lee Frost and starring Ray Milland, Rosey Grier, Don Marshall, Roger Perry, Kathy Baumann, and Chelsea Brown. Plot Dr. Maxwell Kirshner ar ...

'' (1972) (special effects - uncredited) * '' Schlock'' (1973) (makeup artist / actor) * '' Live and Let Die'' (1973) (makeup artist - inflated Kananga, dummy Samedi, Mr Big - uncredited) * ''

'' (1973) (special effects assistant - uncredited) * '' It's Alive'' (1974) (makeup artist / special makeup effects artist - uncredited) * ''

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a 1971 historical novel by American author Ernest J. Gaines. Framed as the fictional oral history of a 110-year-old African American woman, Jane Pittman, the novel traces her life from enslavement at th ...

'' (1974) (makeup creator: Miss Tyson) * ''

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'' (1976) (makeup effects - uncredited / special contributions: Kong / actor) * ''

Track of the Moon Beast ''Track of the Moon Beast'' is a 1976 horror film directed by Richard Ashe and written by Bill Finger and Charles Sinclair. It tells the story of a mineralogist who is hit in the head by a meteor, which subsequently turns him in to a vicious, ...

'' (1976) (makeup artist) * '' Squirm'' (1976) (makeup designer) * ''

The Incredible Melting Man ''The Incredible Melting Man'' is a 1977 American Science fiction film, science fiction body horror film directed and written by William Sachs. The plot concerns an astronaut whose body begins to melt after he is exposed to radiation during a sp ...

'' (1977) (special makeup effects / actor) * ''

Star Wars ''Star Wars'' is an American epic film, epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the Star Wars (film), eponymous 1977 film and Cultural impact of Star Wars, quickly became a worldwide popular culture, pop cu ...

'' (1977) (makeup: second unit) * '' The Fury'' (1978) (special makeup effects) * ''

The Empire Strikes Back ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (also known as ''Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back'') is a 1980 American epic film, epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, based o ...

'' (1980) (makeup artist - uncredited) * ''

'' (1981) (special makeup effects designer and creator) * ''

The Howling ''The Howling'' is a 1977 horror novel by Gary Brandner, first published by Fawcett as a paperback original. It was the inspiration for the film '' The Howling'' (1981), although the plot of the film was only vaguely similar to that of the boo ...

'' (1981) (special makeup effects consultant) * ''

The Funhouse ''The Funhouse'' is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Tobe Hooper, written by Larry Block and starring Elizabeth Berridge, Kevin Conway, William Finley, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Largo Woodruff, Wayne Doba, and Sylvia Miles. Th ...

'' (1981) (special makeup design) * ''

The Incredible Shrinking Woman ''The Incredible Shrinking Woman'' is a 1981 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher (in his cinematic directing debut), written by Jane Wagner, and starring Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, John Glover, and El ...

'' (1981) (creator and designer: Sidney / makeup effects / actor) * ''

Videodrome ''Videodrome'' is a 1983 Canadian science fiction body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring James Woods, Sonja Smits, and Debbie Harry. Set in Toronto during the early 1980s, it follows the CEO of a small UHF telev ...

'' (1983) (special makeup effects designer) * ''

'' (1983) (special makeup effects designer and creator / actor) * '' Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes'' (1984) (special makeup effects) * '' Starman'' (1984) (Starman transformation) * '' Into the Night'' (1985) (actor) * '' My Science Project'' (1985) (special makeup effects artist - uncredited) * ''

Captain EO ''Captain EO'' is a 1986 American 3D science fiction short film shown at several Disney theme parks from 1986 until 1998. The film, starring Michael Jackson, was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film was shown as part of an attraction with ...

'' (1986) (special makeup effects) * ''

Ratboy ''Ratboy'' is a 1986 American comedy-drama film directed by and starring Sondra Locke. The make-up effects were designed by Rick Baker. The film's scenario is at times comic or serious, and one of its peculiarities is that there never is any exp ...

'' (1986) (designer: Ratboy) * ''

'' (1987) (creature designer: Harry / puppeteer / makeup artist) * ''

Beauty and the Beast "Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in (''The Young American and Marine Tales''). Villeneuve's lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and publish ...

'' (1987–89) (designer and creator) * ''

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'' (1987–88) (werewolf characters designer) * ''

Coming to America ''Coming to America'' is a 1988 American romantic comedy film directed by John Landis, based on a story originally created by Eddie Murphy, written by David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein, and starring Murphy (in various roles), Arsenio ...

'' (1988) (special makeup effects) * ''

Gorillas in the Mist ''Gorillas in the Mist'' is a 1988 American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan and a story by Phelan and Tab Murphy. The film is based on a book of the same name by Dian Fossey and fr ...

'' (1988) (special makeup effects / associate producer) * ''

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'' (1988) (special makeup effects) * '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch'' (1990) (special effects supervisor / co-producer) * '' The Rocketeer'' (1991) (makeup creator: Lothar) * ''

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'' (1994) (special makeup effects) * ''

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'' (1994) (makeup creator:

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/ makeup designer:

) * ''

Batman Forever ''Batman Forever'' is a 1995 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger. It is the third installment of the ''Batman'' film series, acting as a standalone sequel to ''Batman Returns''. Directe ...

'' (1995) (special makeup designer and creator) * ''

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'' (1996) (special makeup effects) * ''

The Frighteners ''The Frighteners'' is a 1996 supernatural comedy horror film directed by Peter Jackson and co-written with Fran Walsh. The film stars Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Dee Wallace Stone, Jeffrey Combs, R. Lee Ermey an ...

'' (1996) (special makeup artist: The Judge) * '' Escape from L.A.'' (1996) (special makeup effects) * ''

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'' (1997) (special makeup effects artist) * ''

Men in Black In popular culture and UFO conspiracy theories, men in black (MIB) are government agents dressed in dark suits, who question, interrogate, harass, and threaten unidentified flying object (UFO) witnesses to keep them silent about what they have ...

'' (1997) (alien makeup effects / special makeup effects artist) * '' Critical Care'' (1997) (special makeup effects:

Mr. Brooks ''Mr. Brooks'' is a 2007 American psychological thriller film directed by Bruce A. Evans starring Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, and William Hurt. It was released on June 1, 2007. The film follows the eponymous character, a celebrated ...

) * '' Mighty Joe Young'' (1998) (special makeup effects / creature designer and producer: Mighty Joe Young) * '' Psycho'' (1998) (special makeup effects artist) * ''

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'' (1999) (special makeup effects) * ''

Wild Wild West ''Wild Wild West'' is a 1999 American steampunk Western film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by S. S. Wilson and Brent Maddock alongside Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, based on a story conceived by Jim and John Thomas. Loosely ...

'' (1999) (special makeup effects) * ''

How the Grinch Stole Christmas ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'' is a children's Christmas book by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel written in rhymed verse with illustrations by the author. It follows the Grinch, a green cranky, solitary creature who attempts to thwart the pu ...

'' (2000) (special makeup effects / actor) * '' Nutty Professor II: The Klumps'' (2000) (special makeup effects) * ''

Planet of the Apes ''Planet of the Apes'' is a science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic world in which humans and intelligent apes c ...

'' (2001) (makeup artist / special makeup effects designer and creator / actor) * ''

'' (2002) (alien makeup effects / special makeup effects artist - uncredited / actor) * ''

The Ring The Ring may refer to: Arts and entertainment *The Ring (franchise), ''The Ring'' (franchise), a Japanese horror media franchise Literature * ''The Ring'', a 1967 novel by Richard Chopping * ''The Ring'', a 1988 book by Daniel Keys Moran * ''The R ...

'' (2002) (special makeup effects artist) * ''

The Haunted Mansion The Haunted Mansion is a dark ride, dark-ride attraction located at Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, and Tokyo Disneyland. The haunted house attraction features a ride-through tour in Omnimover vehicles called “Doom Buggies”, and a walk-through s ...

'' (2003) (special makeup effects designer and creator) * ''

Hellboy Hellboy is a superhero created by Mike Mignola and appearing in comic books published by Dark Horse Comics. The character first appeared in ''San Diego Comic-Con Comics'' #2 (August 1993), and has since appeared in various miniseries, one-shots ...

'' (2004) (makeup consultant: Hellboy / special effects director) * ''

The Ring Two ''The Ring Two'' is a 2005 American supernatural horror film and sequel to the 2002 film '' The Ring'', which was a remake of the 1998 Japanese film '' Ring''. Hideo Nakata, director of the original ''Ring'', directed this film in place of G ...

'' (2005) (special makeup effects artist) * ''

'' (2005) (actor) * '' Cursed'' (2005) (special makeup effects artist / special makeup effects creator / special makeup effects designer) * '' X-Men: The Last Stand'' (2006) (special makeup effects consultant) * ''

Click Click or Klick may refer to: Airlines * Click Airways, a UAE airline * Clickair, a Spanish airline * MexicanaClick, a Mexican airline Art, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Klicks, alien race in '' Star Drive'' * Click, minor cha ...

'' (2006) (special age makeup artist - uncredited / special makeup effects) * '' Enchanted'' (2007) (special makeup effects artist) * ''

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'' (2007) (special makeup effects artist) * ''

Tropic Thunder ''Tropic Thunder'' is a 2008 Satire (film and television), satirical Action comedy, action comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, who wrote the screenplay with Justin Theroux and Etan Cohen. The film stars Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., ...

'' (2008) (makeup designer: Mr. Downey Jr.) * '' The Wolfman'' (2010) (special makeup effects / actor) * '' Tron: Legacy'' (2010) (special makeup effects artist) * ''

'' (2012) (alien makeup effects / actor) * ''

Maleficent Maleficent ( or ) is a fictional character who first appears in Walt Disney Productions' animated film, ''Sleeping Beauty (1959 film), Sleeping Beauty'' (1959). Maleficent is the self-proclaimed "Dark lord, Mistress of All Evil" based on the Wic ...

'' (2014) (makeup designer:

) * '' Rings'' (2017) (actor)

Awards and nominations

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BAFTA Awards The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs or BAFTA Awards, is an annual film award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best Cinema of the United Kingdom, British and Worl ...

Saturn Awards The Saturn Awards are American awards presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. The awards were created to honor science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, but have since grown to reward other films bel ...

Other awards

* 2485th star on the

* Time Machine Award at the 2015

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* Doctorate of Humane Letters from the

* Jack Pierce Lifetime Achievement Award at the Chiller-Eyegore Awards * Inducted in the Monster Kid Hall of Fame at the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards * Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for ''

'' (1974)

References

External links

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