Tom Savini
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11/02/1946
Pittsburgh, PA |
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| Released two books on creating makeup effects: Grande Illusions: A Learn-By-Example Guide to the Art and Technique of Special Make-Up Effects from the Films of Tom Savini in 1983, and Grande |
| As a teen, he performed in a troupe that entertained movie-theater patrons during intermissions, and worked as a makeup artist and monster designer for a Pittsburgh TV station's Chiller T |
| Spent three years as a U.S. Army combat photographer during the Vietnam War. |
| Made his feature-film directorial debut with the 1990 remake of George A. Romero's horror classic Night of the Living Dead. He had previously worked with Romero on numeruos films as both a spec |
| An instructor in the Special Make-Up Effects program at the Douglass Education Center in Monessen, PA. |
