Makeup artist Stuart Freeborn 1914-2013

Stuart Freeborn's landmark makeup for the prehistoric apes in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968).

Nick Maley, a makeup artist who worked with Freeborn in the 1970s, called him a mentor who "ran his department like a headmaster."

"It was my years working with him that helped me learn how to think, how to solve problems, how to not take the most obvious path," Maley told the Associated Press. "Everybody will remember him for 'Star Wars,' but he did so much more than that. No one should overlook the groundbreaking work he did on '2001: A Space Odyssey.' That was really the forerunner of 'Star Wars' and used a lot of the same technology."

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