Ashton & Leakey Collection; pencil sketches
- Made:
- 1945-1980
- maker:
- Howard Roy Ashton and Phil Leakey
Ashton & Leakey Collection; pencil sketches, photographs, prosthetics, sculptures, make-up materials and equipment collectively comprising the Roy Ashton and Phil Leakey collection, assembled between 1945 and 1980. Features materials primarily but not exclusively used on Hammer Films Productions.
Roy Ashton (1909–95) and Phil Leakey (1908–92) were master makeup artists who worked on many of the British cult horror films of the mid-20th century. A trained artist, Australia-born Ashton began his career at Gaumont-British Film Corporation in 1932 as a means of supplementing his passion for opera singing. In 1955, Ashton became the assistant to Hammer Films’ Phil Leakey, the first makeup artist to receive on-screen credit for ‘Special Make-up Effects’.
Following Leakey’s departure from Hammer in 1958, Ashton took over as head makeup artist, where he continued his expert work throughout the 1960s.
From sketches to clay models, reference photographs to prosthetic fangs and glass eyeballs, the Ashton and Leakey Collection shows how special effects makeup moved from concept to screen. Titles represented include The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Dracula (1958), The Mummy (1959), and Phantom of the Opera (1962), among many others.
Roy Ashton in his make up studio with Barbara Shelley
1966
Prudence Hyman as Megaera 'The Gorgon'.
1964
Special effects creations by Roy Ashton
circa 1955
Masked character from 'Paranoiac'
1962
Modelled clay head of the Creature
1963
Kiwi Kingston as the Creature in 'the Evil of Frankenstein'
1964
Modelled clay head of the Creature
1964
Jacqueline Pearce in 'The Reptile'
1966
Michael Goodliffe in 'The Gorgon'
1964
Michael Goodliffe in 'The Gorgon'
1964
Michael Goodliffe in 'The Gorgon'
1964
Michael Goodliffe in 'The Gorgon'
1964
Michael Goodliffe in 'The Gorgon'
1964
Michael Goodliffe in 'The Gorgon'
1964
Michael Goodliffe in 'The Gorgon'
1964
Michael Goodliffe in 'The Gorgon'
1964
Michael Goodliffe in 'The Gorgon'
1964
Megaera from 'The Gorgon'
1964
Roy Ashton at work in his studio
1972
Sketch of the transformation in 'The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll'
1960
Roy Ashton at Gaumont-British studios
1934
Modelled clay head of The Creature
1964
Modelled clay head of the Creature
1964
The Creature from 'Frankenstein'
1931
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Details
- Category:
- Cinematography
- Collection:
- Roy Ashton & Phil Leakey Collection
- Object Number:
- 2000-5000
- type:
- collections
- credit:
- National Media Museum, Bradford
