5 Greatest Creations of Makeup Artist Stuart Freeborn

Fagin, "Oliver Twist" (1948)

Stuart Freeborn's first widely recognized work was the makeup design for Fagin (Alec Guinness), the "receiver of stolen goods" and wretched antagonist of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist." Freeborn was heavily influenced by the monster makeup of Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr. in the Universal horror movies, a perfect approach to the man Dickens described as "grotesque" to look at. Freeborn and Guinness would reunite ... more 

Fagin, "Oliver Twist" (1948)

Stuart Freeborn's first widely recognized work was the makeup design for Fagin (Alec Guinness), the "receiver of stolen goods" and wretched antagonist of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist." Freeborn was heavily influenced by the monster makeup of Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr. in the Universal horror movies, a perfect approach to the man Dickens described as "grotesque" to look at. Freeborn and Guinness would reunite almost 30 years later for a certain sci-fi space opera that required a few other "grotesque" creations as well. less