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Leonard Engelman Dies: Emmy Nominated, Lifetime Achievement Award-Winning Makeup Artist Was 83
Leonard Engelman, who was instrumental in growing makeup's profile, is dead at 83.
Leonard Engelman, who lobbied the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to install a makeup branch and served as its first governor when they did so, died Thursday at 88 in Northridge Hospital Medical Center. Engelman worked on such films as Rocky IV, The Princess Diaries, Batman & Robin and How the Grinch Stole Christmas and did Cher’s makeup for more than 30 years. Working as Cher’s personal makeup artist, Engelman was with her on photo shoots and her films Moonstruck(1987), Suspect(1987), The Witches of Eastwick(1987), Mermaids(1990), Faithful(1996), Tea With Mussolini(1999) and Burlesque(2010).
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