Bart Mixon

Bart J. Mixon is a make-up effects artist who did uncredited make-up work on , , and . He was also one of the many prosthetic make-up artists on . On Nemesis, Mixon was part of the make-up crew for the Reman make-up and also worked on Ron Perlman's make-up.
In , he did uncredited make-up work on the pilot episode of , .
Born in Houston, Texas, Mixon began his special make-up effects career working on local independent productions, including the 1984 thriller Courage, starring, co-written and produced by Ronny Cox. He eventually became a make-up lab technician and on-set makeup artist on more high profile productions, including (1985), The Supernaturals (1986, starring LeVar Burton and Nichelle Nichols), and (1986). Perhaps more notably, he worked on (1984, featuring Dick Miller, Brian Thompson, and Paul Winfield) and was part of the "robot team" on (1987), starring Peter Weller, Robert DoQui, Miguel Ferrer, Kurtwood Smith, Ray Wise, and the aforementioned Ronny Cox.
In 1987, Mixon moved to Los Angeles, California, where he supervised special make-up and creature effects for such projects as (1988, featuring Brian Thompson), (1989, starring Denise Crosby), (1990, starring Zach Galligan, John Glover, Keye Luke, Dick Miller and Robert Picardo), (1990), and (1991, featuring Jenette Goldstein). He was also the creature effects supervisor on Stephen King's It (1990); as such, he was responsible for designing, sculpting and applying the make-up for Pennywise character. 
In 1994, Mixon entered into a partnership with fellow Star Trek make-up artist Earl Ellis to create the make-up effects studio Mixon & Ellis FX (or ME FX). Over the next four years, the studio created make-up and prosthetics for such films as (1996, featuring John Carroll Lynch and Harve Presnell), (1997, featuring Carel Struycken), and (1998, starring Seymour Cassel). Mixon closed down the studio in 1998 and has since worked as a freelance artist on films such as (2000, featuring Clint Howard), (2001, featuring Erick Avari, Cary-Hiroyuki, and David Warner), (2002, featuring Jack Kehler), (2002, featuring Shannon Cochran and Richard Lineback), (2004, starring Ron Perlman and Doug Jones), and (2004, featuring Bruce McGill).
Mixon also was the prosthetic make-up artist for The Thing on (2005) and (2007), based on the characters appearing in Marvel Comics. He was also a key prosthetic artist on (2006, starring Kelsey Grammer, Famke Janssen, Rebecca Romijn and Patrick Stewart) and was a make-up artist on (2006, featuring Lee Arenberg). In addition, he worked on the Academy Award-nominated prosthetic make-up for (2007, starring Eddie Murphy).
Other make-up credits include (2008, featuring Faran Tahir) and (also 2008, starring Ron Perlman). He also applied make-up effects for (2009).
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