Dave Elsey was born on 9 February 1967 and is a make-up artist known for special make-up effects, creature effects and animatronics in films such as X-Men: First Class, Ghost Rider, Star Wars, Hellraiser, Alien 3, and Indiana Jones.
11 Facts About Dave Elsey
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Dave Elsey was born on February 2,1967, in London, England to Marie and Derek Elsey.
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From 1999 to 2011, Elsey lived in Sydney, Australia with his wife Lou while working on the TV science fiction series Farscape.
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When he was about ten or eleven, Dave Elsey met Chris Tucker, a talented Make-up Artist who contributed significant work to films like Star Wars Episode IV, Quest For Fire, Phantom of the Opera, and Elephant Man.
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Tucker mentored Dave Elsey, showing him how to make various things like casting a face or sculpting prosthetics.
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Dave Elsey followed in Tucker's footsteps and did the same thing.
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In 1983, at the age of sixteen, Dave Elsey met Baker on the set of the film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes.
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Dave Elsey frequently ran into Jim Henson while on the lot.
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Dave Elsey eventually met Lyle Conway who was Henson's creature shop designer on The Dark Crystal.
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In 1999, Dave Elsey was asked to supervise the Australian branch of the Jim Henson's Creature Shop about two months before the series Farscape was launched.
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Dave Elsey used the opportunity to create characters puppets and makeups using every technique he could think of, resulting in many intricate and visually stunning alien creatures cult fans came to love.