Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Dreyfus in 'The Pink Panther Strikes Again'

A colour polaroid photograph showing Herbert Lom as Chief Inspector Dreyfus in 'The Pink Panther Strikes Again' (1976), taken by an unknown photographer in 1975. Roy Ashton (1909-1995) achieved the face make-up with blue-black lipstick. Also a sketch by Ashton on the reverse of the photograph demonstrating the make up effects.

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’.