James Kail

James "Jim" Kail is a makeup artist who worked along with Wes Dawn and James L. McCoy as Makeup Artist on .
Kail, who has started to work in the entertainment industry in the 1960s, worked almost five decades as makeup artist. He was the makeup artist for actor on the action film Steel (1979, with Harris Yulin and Richard Lynch), (1980, with Saul Rubinek), (1980, with Michael Pataki and Tracey Walter), and (1981) and earned his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1975 in the category Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for his work on the television game show Masquerade Party which featured Lee Meriwether.
In 1981, Kail won a Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for his work on the television history pic Peter and Paul, starring Robert Foxworth and John Rhys-Davies. He received two more Emmy nominations in 1989 in the category Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Miniseries or a Special for his work on the television mini-series War and Remembrance, Part II and Part III. He shared these nominations with Wes Dawn, Thomas R. Burman, and Bari Burman. War and Remembrance co-starred William Schallert, Jeremy Kemp, Steven Berkoff, John Rhys-Davies, Leslie Hope, Paul Lambert, and Granville Ames.
Among his first credited work are the television movies and specials Mitzi's 2nd Special (1969), Keep U.S. Beautiful (1973), Flip Wilson... Of Course (1974), and Night Terror (1977) and the television series Dean Martin Presents: The Bobby Darin Amusement Co. (1972), Flip (1970-1974), What's Happening!! (1976-1977), Three's Company (1977, working with Brian McManus, Mark Bussan, Ellen Powell, and Hazel Catmull), The Jeffersons (1975-1978), Godd Times (1976-1978), Rhoda (1975-1978), Dallas (1978), The Chisholms (1979, co-starring Brett Cullen and Mitchell Ryan and with hair stylist Monique DeSart), and Struck by Lightning (1979).
Further credits include (1978, with Tricia O'Neil), (1981), (1982, with Michael McKean and Saul Rubinek and working with Wes Dawn and Shirley Crawford), the television drama Missing Children: A Mother's Story (1982, with , Mary McCusker, Jane Wyatt, Anne Haney, and Noble Willingham and hair stylist Janice D. Brandow), the television drama My Mother's Secret Life (1984, with Paul Sorvino, Stanley Kamel, and Dan Shor and hair stylist Paul Abascal), the comedy Up the Creek (1984, working with Wes Dawn), (1985, working with Wes Dawn and Silvia Abascal), the television science fiction film J.O.E. and the Colonel (1985), (1986, working with Cheri Ruff), (1988, working with Paul Abascal, Wes Dawn, and Josée Normand), and (1988, with Cheri Ruff) and (1982-1983), Outlaws (1986, with Cheri Ruff), and (1988).
In the 1990s, Kail worked as key makeup artist on (1990, with Wes Dawn and Dino Ganziano), (1990, with Paul Abascal, Thomas R. Burman, Bari Burman, and Josée Normand), (1991, with Janice Alexander, Richard Sabre, and Monty Westmore), (1991, with Dino Ganziano and Francine Shermaine), (1994, with Patricia Vecchio, Donna Barrett Gilbert, and Richard Snell), (1996, with Michael Key and Cheri Ruff), (1996), (1997, with Donna Barrett Gilbert, Dino Ganziano, Ken Diaz, Joel Harlow, and Dayne Johnson), (1997), and (1999, with Allan A. Apone, Jeff Dawn, Steve LaPorte, and Clinton Wayne).
In 2003, he worked as second unit makeup department head on , starring Kristanna Loken. Among his last known credits as key makeup artist are (2001, working with Jake Garber), (2005, working with Lee Joyner, Michael Moore, Francine Shermaine, and Cale Thomas), (2005, with Francine Shermaine), (2006), and (2007).
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