Joe Podnar

Joe Podnar was a make-up and special effects make-up artist who worked on three Star Trek television series and three Star Trek feature films.
During his time on Star Trek, Podnar earned five Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Makeup for a Series:
* for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, Camille Calvet, Dean Jones, Karen Iverson, Mark Bussan, Ellis Burman, Karen Westerfield, Mary Kay Morse, Belinda Bryant, Suzanne Diaz, Jill Rockow, David Quashnick, and Bernd Rantscheff
* for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, Camille Calvet, Dean Jones, Mark Bussan, Mary Kay Morse, Ellis Burman, Belinda Bryant, Karen Iverson, Karen Westerfield, Brad Look, David Quashnick, Earl Ellis, R. Stephen Weber, Jeff Lewis, Toby Lamm, Sandra Rowden, Michael F. Blake, June Westmore, Judith Silverman, Craig Smith, Kevin Haney, Suzanne Diaz, Scott Wheeler, James Rohland, Tina Hoffman, and Natalie Wood
* for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, Tina Hoffman, Scott Wheeler, James Rohland, Suzanne Diaz, Natalie Wood, Ellis Burman, Jeff Lewis, Belinda Bryant, Brad Look, David Quashnick, Karen Westerfield, and Earl Ellis
* for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, Art Anthony, Belinda Bryant, David DeLeon, Suzanne Diaz, Earl Ellis, Jeff Lewis, Brad Look, Karen Westerfield, June Westmore, and Natalie Wood
* for the episode , shared with Michael Westmore, Suzanne Diaz, Brad Look, Jeff Lewis, Earl Ellis, Michael Burnett, Todd McIntosh, Barry R. Koper, Art Anthony, Robert Maverick, Steven E. Anderson, Debbie Zoller, Roxy D'Alonzo, Ruth Haney, and Judith Silverman
Podnar's first credited work was as animatronics assistant and location crew member for the company Mechanical and Makeup Imagieries Inc. on (1987) on which he worked with Camille Calvet and Karin Hanson. He then worked as scenic artist for (1988) and in the special effects department for (1988, with Wayne Toth) and (1988, with Karin Hanson, Richard Snell, Martin Becker, and Joe Lombardi). Beside his work as an actor on the horror film The Jitters (1989) and in the make-up department for the horror comedy The Sleeping Car (1989, along with Richard Snell and Wayne Toth) and (1990, with Dean Jones), he worked in the special make-up effects department for the company Magical Media Industries, Inc. on (1988, with Martin Becker, Camille Calvet, Roger Borelli, Mark Garbarino, Leonard MacDonald, Wayne Toth, Bart Mixon, Scott Wheeler, and Brian Wade), (1990, with Ron Althoff, Jim Davidson, Tony Doublin, Alan McFarland, Robert Stromberg, Wayne Toth, and Brian Wade), and (1991, with Dayne Johnson, Wayne Toth, and Marlene Stoller).
Further credits as make-up artist and special effects make-up artist include the drama Inside Out (1991), (1991, with Donna Cicatelli-Lewis), the comedy Kung Fu Rascals (1992), the drama Inside Out II (1992), (1992, with Earl Ellis and Bart Mixon), (1994), (1995), (1995, with Jim Bandsuh and Ken Niederbaumer), (1996, with Earl Ellis and Bart Mixon), (1996), (2000, with Karen Asano-Myers, Terry Baliel, Barney Burman, Zoltan Elek, Earl Ellis, Jane Galli, Kevin Haney, Joel Harlow, Karen Iverson, Jamie Kelman, Michael Key, Heather Koontz, Toby Lamm, Mark Landon, Steve LaPorte, Margie Latinopoulos, Norma Lee, Patricia Miller, Bart Mixon, Geneva Nash Morgan, Gilbert A. Mosko, Kenny Myers, Ve Neill, Greg Nelson, Alex Proctor, Bernd Rantscheff, Craig Reardon, Jill Rockow, Sandra Rowden, Kim Santantonio, Elaina P. Schulman, Mark Shostrom, Robin Slater, Mike Smithson, Richard Snell, Justin Stafford, Rick Stratton, Thomas E. Surprenant, Brian A. Tunstall, Karen Westerfield, June Westmore, Monty Westmore, Art Anthony, and Adam Brandy), the horror film Dead Above Ground (2002, with Michael Westmore and Natalie Wood), (2003), (2005, with Ed French, Brad Look, and Bob Smithson), (2006), (2008), and (2008, with Ed French, Ruth Haney, Margie Latinopoulos, Bart Mixon, Christopher Payne, and Clinton Wayne).
== Star Trek credits ==
(This list is currently incomplete.)
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** – special makeup effects artist
** – special makeup effects artist
** – special makeup effects artist
* – make-up artist 
** (Season 6)
** (Season 7)
* – make-up artist 
** (Season 7)
* – make-up artist
** (Season 1)
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