David Abbott

David Abbott is an winning makeup artist who worked as special effects makeup artist on and episodes of and . His father, Larry Abbott, worked briefly as a journeyman makeup artist on .
Abbott, whose father taught his son this craft, started his career as assistant makeup artist on the The 44th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1987), alongside his father. He then worked as makeup artist on two seasons of (1987-89) as well as the television series Saved by the Bell (1989-91) and The Fifth Corner (1992) and (1992, with Tania McComas, Gloria Ponce, Jill Rockow, Patricia Vecchio, and Carlos Yeaggy.
Abbott soon started to work as makeup department head with credits including the horror film Vampire on Bikini Beach (1988) and (1991-92), Rachel Gunn, R.N. (1992), (1992-93), and (1992-1993). Further credits as makeup artist include (1993), (1993), and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992-94), (1993), and (1994).
Abbott won two Daytime Emmy Awards in the category Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for his work on in 1990 and 1991, shared with Gilbert A. Mosko and Carlos Yeaggy. The series starred John Schuck, Lee Meriwether and Jason Marsden and was filmed between 1987 and 1991. In 1999, he received a Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award nomination in the category Best Period Makeup – Feature for his work on on which he worked with Toni-Ann Walker, Kevin Haney, Mike Smithson, and Kenny Myers among others.
Abbott worked as makeup artist for Rick Stratton and Richard Snell on (1995) and (1997). On (1996) and (1996), he received credit as makeup department head. Abbott received two Emmy Award nominations in the category Outstanding Individual Achievement in Makeup for a Miniseries or a Special/Outstanding Makeup for a Miniseries or a Special: In 1996 for Alien Nation: Body and Soul, shared with Rick Stratton, Richard Snell, Craig Reardon, Steve LaPorte, Janna Phillips, Kenny Myers, and Jill Rockow, and in 1997 for Alien Nation: The Enemy Within, shared with Rick Stratton, Richard Snell, Craig Reardon, Janna Phillips, Edouard F. Henriques, Karen Westerfield, and Kenny Myers.
Beside his work on Star Trek and the Alien Nation franchise in the 1990s he also created special effects makeup for (1993-96), Kindred: The Embraced (1996), (1996-1998), Significant Others (1998), The Magnificent Seven (1999), (1999), and (1999-2000) as well as (1997) and for (1999).
Since 2000, Abbott worked as makeup department head on the television series City of Angels (2000, with Mark Shostrom and Brian A. Tunstall), Resurrection Blvd. (2000-02, with Alicia Tripi and Danny Valencia), The Agency (2001-03), (2004), (2005-06), (2005-06), Drive (2007), (2009-10, with Bart Mixon), Huge (2010), and Face Off (2012, starring McKenzie Westmore and Ve Neill). As makeup artist he worked on J.J. Abrams' (2000, starring Keri Russell), (2000), (2001), (2003), (2003-04) and Cane (2007), (2009), (2009), episodes of Dark Blue (2009), The Fresh Beat Band (2009), and Lie to Me (2009), (2010), and (2010-12), Good Luck Charlie (2010-12), Sons of Anarchy (2008-12), Oh Sit! (2012), (2012), and (2012).
He was later a makeup artist on (2013, with James MacKinnon, Robert Maverick, Bart Mixon, Christopher Allen Nelson, and Clinton Wayne) and Graceland (TV series)|Graceland}} (2013) and as makeup department head on the horror thriller The Ganzfeld Experiment (2013).
==Star Trek credits==
* – special effects makeup artist: Brett Porter, background Vulcans and aliens (uncredited)
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** – special effects makeup artist (uncredited)
** – special effects makeup artist: Jem'Hadar (uncredited)
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** – special effects makeup artist: Hanonians (uncredited)
** – special effects makeup artist: Hanonians (uncredited)
==External links==
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