Bernard Bresslaw in 'The Ugly Duckling'

A reference photograph of Bernard Bresslaw (1934-1993), wearing Roy Ashton's (1909-1995) proposed special effects make-up for a Jekyll & Hyde character, taken by an unknown photographer in about 1959. The Hammer feature, 'The Ugly Duckling' (1959), featured Bernard Bresslaw as a Henry Jekyll / Teddy Hyde character.

Roy Ashton (1909–95) and Phil Leakey (1908–92) were master make-up 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’.