Make-up artist Bob Westmoreland was best known for his work on Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He worked on make-up for the 1977 sci-fi classic, and appeared onscreen in a small role as a load dispatcher.
Westmoreland began working in films and television in the early 1970s, and provided make-up for such films as Hammer (1972), Love Me Deadly (1973), Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off (1973), the tele-film Satan’s Triangle (1975), Friday Foster (1975), the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Ravagers (1979), Spielberg’s 1941 (1979), The Island (1980) again appearing on screen in a small role, and Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).
Westmoreland died of cardiac arrest in Kauai, Hawaii, on October 6, 2009, at age 74.
Written by Harris Lentz III...
Westmoreland began working in films and television in the early 1970s, and provided make-up for such films as Hammer (1972), Love Me Deadly (1973), Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off (1973), the tele-film Satan’s Triangle (1975), Friday Foster (1975), the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Ravagers (1979), Spielberg’s 1941 (1979), The Island (1980) again appearing on screen in a small role, and Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983).
Westmoreland died of cardiac arrest in Kauai, Hawaii, on October 6, 2009, at age 74.
Written by Harris Lentz III...
- 11/6/2009
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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