David McCloskey

The Best Makeup Oscar didn't exist until 1981.

So, up until that point, honorary awards were given out on a case-by-case basis.

And because Planet of the Apes was such an amazing achievement in makeup, Chambers got the honorary award.

He invented the foam latex prosthetic techniques that were being used in pretty much every sci-fi film of the 70s.

He developed Mr. Spock's prosthetic ears.

Right.

Or real footage of the actual Bigfoot, depending on your persuasion.

We should.

So Chambers may have faked Bigfoot, and he'll also play a role in staging a CIA rescue operation.

So he's an interesting character.

Back to Argo.

So-

CIA disguise, and this is how tight the connection had become between the OTS crew at Hollywood, is that CIA disguise officers are actually doing apprenticeships on Chambers film sets.

And Chambers, in some cases, is rotating into training exercises that the CIA is doing at the farm in Virginia, where on at least one occasion, he role-played a fictional border guard.

That's great.

He's enmeshed and he and Mendez really, really like each other.

So Chambers helps Mendez with all kinds of wild operations, including how to make prosthetics that make case officers appear to have aged 20 years overnight, to change their

bone structure with dental appliances to have a different gait, to walk differently.

Chambers has this great line about disguise where he says, the hardest part of the face to disguise is the ear.

Nobody looks at ears, but they notice them when they're wrong.