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Martin Landau (Ed Wood) 1994
A deceptive one this; Martin Landau's turn as Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's biopic is not obvious as a full mask job... until you realise he no longer looks anything like Martin Landau. A subtle, Oscar-winning creation by Rick Baker, Landau is transformed into almost a caricature of Lugosi, but the effect is softened by Stefan Czapsky's black-and-white photography, and offset by the oddball nature of the project itself (and much of the rest of the cast). Baker's work effectively but unobtrusively enhances Landau's touchingly weary performance as the morphine-riddled ex-actor.
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