Gordon Bau
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Gordon Bau, known as Gordon Bau and sometimes as Gordy Bau (July 1, 1907 – July 21, 1975), was the make-up supervisor at Warner Brothers Studios in Los Angeles, California, who worked in scores of films and episodes of more than twenty television series. Gordon Bau and his brother George Bau worked for Rubbercraft, a firm which specialized in rubber parts for industrial uses. They began moonlighting by performing make-up for films and later television. The brothers built rubber eye prosthetics which could make white actors appear Asian on screen. While Gordon became head of make-up services for Warner Brothers, George headed the prosthetics laboratory at the studio. Bau's work in films is voluminous, from Andy Griffith's Onionhead and Auntie Mame (1958) to John Wayne's Rio Bravo and Clint Walker's Yellowstone Kelly (both 1959), and Jeffrey Hunter's Sergeant Rutledge (1960). He also worked on Susan Slade (1961), The Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Kisses for My President (1964), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). His last film work was Dirty Harry (1971) and The All American Boy (1973).
Filmography (37)
The Omega Man
Dirty Harry
Wait Until Dark
Cool Hand Luke
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Harper
The Great Race
My Fair Lady
Sex and the Single Girl
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Ocean's Eleven
Rio Bravo
A Summer Place
Auntie Mame
The Left Handed Gun
Giant
The Wrong Man
East of Eden
Rebel Without a Cause
Mister Roberts
Them!
A Star Is Born
Dial M for Murder
House of Wax
I Confess
Calamity Jane
A Streetcar Named Desire
Strangers on a Train
Operation Pacific
They Live by Night
The Set-Up
The Big Steal
Out of the Past
It's a Wonderful Life
Jungle Book
To Be or Not to Be
