He coined with his make-up art films like “The Exorcist” and “The Godfather”: Dick Smith has died at the age of 92 years. The mask images was regarded as an expert in special effects and the transformation of young actors in old men.

For decades, he shocked and fascinated by cinema fans alike: The arranged by Dick Smith aging patriarch Vito Corleone Marlon Brando in “The Godfather” or Linda Blair’s transformation into a monster in “The Exorcist” marked the film story. Now is the first artist who has received an Academy Award for his life’s work, has died in California. He was 92 years old.

“The master is gone from us,” his student Rick Baker announced on Twitter on Thursday. “My friend and mentor Dick Smith is no longer with us,” went on the 63-year-old make-up artist and Academy Award winner. “The world will never be the same.” Baker had been involved even after his education at Smith of movies like “American Werewolf” and “Men in Black”.

At Bakers Tweet reacted the sons of the now deceased artist. “Our life has been blessed by the steadfast love of our Father and we thank from my heart for your kind words in memory of him,” David and Douglas Smith declared overlooking Bakers tweet.

Originally Smith to have had no interest in makeup. It was only by chance he learned during his time at the University of Yale from the opportunities that existed with makeup in movies. He was enthusiastic about so that he in his spare time to the “Hunchback of Notre Dame” and turned so that his fellow students frightened – later he played in a “Frankenstein” performance the monster.

After his time with the U.S. Army Smith then gave the makeup for television a chance: In one of his first jobs, he was a makeup artist for the party leaders of the U.S. Democrats at the party congress in 1948 responsible, since 1945, he was at NBC as first makeup man hired. In Hollywood he allowed to age countless stars on the canvas in the following decades and made such as latex foam from the mid-thirties Dustin Hoffman in “Little Big Man” a Hundred Years. Even David Bowie he allowed to age – and turned him into “desire” in a gray-haired vampire.

In 1985, Smith together with Paul LeBlanc won an Oscar for the makeup in the movie “Amadeus” in 2011, he was also honored by the Academy with an honorary Academy Award for his life’s work.

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