Christopher Tucker was a British make-up artist for theatre and film.
12 Facts About Christopher Tucker
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Christopher Tucker specialized in the creation of prosthetic make-up for horror films.
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Christopher Tucker trained as an opera singer at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and began experimenting with artificial noses when he was asked to perform in the opera Rigoletto.
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Christopher Tucker worked from an 18th-century manor house in Berkshire, and was assisted by his wife Sinikka Ikaheimo.
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Christopher Tucker's earliest credited work is the make-up for the 1970 film Julius Caesar, starring Charlton Heston and John Gielgud.
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Christopher Tucker was responsible for aging the characters in the BBC series I, Claudius.
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In 1980, Christopher Tucker was hired to create the prosthetics that would transform John Hurt into the hideously deformed Joseph Merrick in David Lynch's film The Elephant Man.
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Christopher Tucker attempted to create sequences in which men turned into wolves, rather than turning into creatures which were wolf-like, and the skin-tearing sequence was achieved by the actor initially removing a latex prosthesis from his own face, and as the transformation progressed, using three dummy figures, called Bert 1,2 and 3.
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In 2005, Christopher Tucker created the prosthetics for Amitabh Bachchan's character in the Indian film Black.
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Christopher Tucker died from a strep infection on 14 December 2022, at the age of 81.
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Christopher Tucker won the BAFTA award for Best Make-Up Artist in 1983 for his work on the film Quest for Fire.
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Christopher Tucker was the subject for a television documentary called Skintricks made in 1986 for Amsterdam TV.