Awards & Winners

Frank Westmore

Date of Birth 13-April-1923
Place of Birth Maywood
(Los Angeles County, California, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Frank C. Westmore, Frank Courtney Westmore
Profession Makeup Artist
Frank Courtney Westmore was a Hollywood make-up artist, part of the Westmore family who were credited with introducing the art of make-up to the Hollywood movie industry. He was born in Maywood, California, and died of a heart ailment in St. Joseph's Medical Center, Burbank, California. After apprenticing at Paramount Pictures with his brother Wally, he worked on films such as Farewell, My Lovely, The Ten Commandments, Houseboat, Two for the Seesaw and The Towering Inferno, and television series such as The Munsters, Planet of the Apes, Bonanza, Hart to Hart and Kung Fu. For the last of these he won the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Makeup" in 1972, and was also nominated unsuccessfully the following year. He was nominated a third time in 1978 with his nephew Michael for A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story. He also co-wrote a biography of the family, The Westmores of Hollywood in 1976.

Awards by Frank Westmore

Check all the awards nominated and won by Frank Westmore.

1978


Nominations 1978 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story

1973


Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup Kung Fu

1972


Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup
Honored for : ABC Movie of the Week
(Kung Fu)

Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup ABC Movie of the Week
Kung Fu