Oscar-winning makeup artist Tuttle dies

August 04, 2007 Bill Tuttle, a makeup artist who transformed Tony Randall into all seven title characters of "7 Faces of Dr. Lao," worked on "The Wizard of Oz" and created the monstrous Morlocks in 1960's "The Time Machine," has died. Tuttle, who had a 35-year career at MGM, was the first person to receive an Academy Award for makeup work when he received an honorary Oscar at the 1965 ceremony for "Lao." Tuttle created his own line of makeup called Custom Color Cosmetics and worked on more than 300 films, including "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945), "Julius Caesar" (1953), "The Teahouse of the August Moon" (1956), "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962), "Jailhouse Rock" (1957), "North by Northwest" (1959) and "How the West Was Won" (1962).

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