Makeup artist Clay Campbell was born in Chicago in 1901, but grew up in
Toronto, Canada. After graduating high school he journeyed to Los
Angeles, where he got a job with a wax factory, creating and producing
the faces of wax figures. His company was contracted to supply such
figures for the Warner Bros. film Das Geheimnis des Wachsfigurenkabinetts (1933), and Campbell's work was
noticed by Perc Westmore, chief of Warners' makeup department. He hired
Campbell to be his assistant. After gaining experience there, Campbell
left Warners and went to work for 20th Century-Fox, heading its makeup
department, then to Columbia Pictures, where he ran that studio's
makeup division. His work can be seen in such films as Der junge Mr. Lincoln (1939),
Das zweite Gesicht des Dr. Jekyll (1951), and The Werewolf (1956). He retired in 1966.
