Ben Nye

Biography

Benjamin Emmet "Ben" Nye, Sr. was an American makeup artist for the Hollywood film industry for over four decades, from the 1930s to the early 1980s. He worked on over five hundred 20th Century Fox films both in and out of Hollywood.

Personal Facts

Known For

Costume & Make-Up

Gender

male

Known Credits

276

Birth Date

1907-01-12 00:00:00

Birth Place

Fremont, Nebraska, USA

Known For

• 

  The Sound of Music
• 

  Planet of the Apes
• 

  Marathon Man
• 

  The Day the Earth Stood Still
• 

  All About Eve
• 

  Miracle on 34th Street

Credits

• costume & make-up (276 credits)

  • Batman '66 Meets the Green Hornet

    makeup supervisor

    costume & make-up
    2020
  • Heaven's Gate

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1980
  • Marathon Man

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1976
  • Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1974
  • Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1974
  • The Boston Strangler

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1968
  • The Detective

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1968
  • Planet of the Apes

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1968
  • Valley of the Dolls

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1967
  • Doctor Dolittle

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1967
  • Tony Rome

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1967
  • The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1967
  • A Guide for the Married Man

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1967
  • In Like Flint

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1967
  • The Sand Pebbles

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1966
  • Way... Way Out

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1966
  • Fantastic Voyage

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1966
  • Jan & Dean: On the Run

    makeup supervisor

    costume & make-up
    1966
  • Planet of the Apes Test Reel

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1966
  • Our Man Flint

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1966
  • The Flight of the Phoenix

    makeup supervisor

    costume & make-up
    1965
  • The Reward

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1965
  • Morituri

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1965
  • Rapture

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1965
  • Von Ryan's Express

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1965
  • The Sound of Music

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1965
  • John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1965
  • War Party

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1965
  • Dear Brigitte

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1965
  • The Pleasure Seekers

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1964
  • Goodbye Charlie

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1964
  • Rio Conchos

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1964
  • Fate Is the Hunter

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1964
  • Shock Treatment

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1964
  • What a Way to Go!

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1964
  • Move Over, Darling

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1963
  • Take Her, She's Mine

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1963
  • The Stripper

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1963
  • Five Weeks in a Balloon

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1962
  • Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1962
  • State Fair

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1962
  • Tender Is the Night

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1962
  • Snow White and the Three Stooges

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1961
  • The Second Time Around

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1961
  • Bachelor Flat

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1961
  • Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1961
  • Wild in the Country

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1961
  • Misty

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1961
  • Swingin' Along

    makeup & hair

    costume & make-up
    1961
  • Flaming Star

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1960
  • Let's Make Love

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1960
  • From the Terrace

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1960
  • The Lost World

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1960
  • Wild River

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1960
  • Seven Thieves

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1960
  • Can-Can

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1960
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • The Story on Page One

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • Beloved Infidel

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • The Man Who Understood Women

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • A Private's Affair

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • Holiday for Lovers

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • The Alligator People

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • Say One for Me

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • The Sound and the Fury

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • The Diary of Anne Frank

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • The Hunters

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • The Fiend Who Walked the West

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • The Fly

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • The Bravados

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • Fraulein

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • The Long, Hot Summer

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • From Hell to Texas

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • The Young Lions

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • South Pacific

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • The Enemy Below

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • The Three Faces of Eve

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • Desk Set

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • An Affair to Remember

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • The Wayward Bus

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • Oh, Men! Oh, Women!

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • The Girl Can't Help It

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Three Brave Men

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Bigger Than Life

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Love Me Tender

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Teenage Rebel

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Between Heaven and Hell

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • The Last Wagon

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Bus Stop

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • The King and I

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • D-Day the Sixth of June

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • 23 Paces to Baker Street

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • The Proud Ones

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • On the Threshold of Space

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Carousel

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Good Morning, Miss Dove

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • Oklahoma!

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • Seven Cities of Gold

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • The Tall Men

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • The Left Hand of God

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • House of Bamboo

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • The Seven Year Itch

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • Soldier of Fortune

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • Daddy Long Legs

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • Violent Saturday

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • A Man Called Peter

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • Untamed

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • There's No Business Like Show Business

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • Black Widow

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • Woman's World

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • Broken Lance

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • The Egyptian

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • Garden of Evil

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • Three Coins in the Fountain

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • River of No Return

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • King of the Khyber Rifles

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Beneath the 12-Mile Reef

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • How to Marry a Millionaire

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Vicki

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • The Robe

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • City of Bad Men

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Mister Scoutmaster

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Inferno

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • A Blueprint for Murder

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Dangerous Crossing

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • White Witch Doctor

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Powder River

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Pickup on South Street

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • The Glory Brigade

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • The Girl Next Door

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • The Desert Rats

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Call Me Madam

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Treasure of the Golden Condor

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Niagara

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Tonight We Sing

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Taxi

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • The I Don't Care Girl

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Stars and Stripes Forever

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • The Outcasts of Poker Flat

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Way of a Gaucho

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • My Wife's Best Friend

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Night Without Sleep

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Monkey Business

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • What Price Glory

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Les Miserables

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Dreamboat

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Don't Bother to Knock

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • We're Not Married!

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Diplomatic Courier

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Deadline - U.S.A.

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Belles on Their Toes

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • With a Song in My Heart

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • 5 Fingers

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Return of the Texan

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Viva Zapata!

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Elopement

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Fixed Bayonets!

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • The Model and the Marriage Broker

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Golden Girl

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Let's Make It Legal

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Anne of the Indies

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Love Nest

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • People Will Talk

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • The Guy Who Came Back

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • David and Bathsheba

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • The Secret of Convict Lake

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • As Young as You Feel

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Follow the Sun

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • The House on Telegraph Hill

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • On the Riviera

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Fourteen Hours

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Rawhide

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • The 13th Letter

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • I'd Climb the Highest Mountain

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • The Frogmen

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Halls of Montezuma

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • All About Eve

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • The Jackpot

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Two Flags West

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Mister 880

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • My Blue Heaven

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • No Way Out

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Panic in the Streets

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Broken Arrow

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Stella

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Love That Brute

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • The Gunfighter

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • A Ticket to Tomahawk

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Cheaper by the Dozen

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Wabash Avenue

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Under My Skin

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Mother Didn't Tell Me

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Three Came Home

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Whirlpool

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Twelve O'Clock High

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • Dancing in the Dark

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • Father Was a Fullback

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • Pinky

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • Thieves' Highway

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • I Was a Male War Bride

    makeup designer

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • Slattery's Hurricane

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • Sand

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • Come to the Stable

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • House of Strangers

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • It Happens Every Spring

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • The Fan

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • Down to the Sea in Ships

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • A Letter to Three Wives

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1949
  • Yellow Sky

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • The Walls of Jericho

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • That Wonderful Urge

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • The Snake Pit

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • Apartment for Peggy

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • Cry of the City

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • Road House

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • That Lady in Ermine

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • Deep Waters

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • The Street with No Name

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • The Iron Curtain

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • Give My Regards to Broadway

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • Fury at Furnace Creek

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • Sitting Pretty

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • Call Northside 777

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1948
  • Captain from Castile

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • Daisy Kenyon

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • Gentleman's Agreement

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • Forever Amber

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • Nightmare Alley

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • The Foxes of Harrow

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • Kiss of Death

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • Mother Wore Tights

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • Miracle on 34th Street

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • Moss Rose

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • The Homestretch

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • The Late George Apley

    makeup & hair

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • The Brasher Doubloon

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • The Shocking Miss Pilgrim

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1947
  • The Razor's Edge

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1946
  • My Darling Clementine

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1946
  • Margie

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1946
  • Anna and the King of Siam

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1946
  • Somewhere in the Night

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1946
  • Cluny Brown

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1946
  • Do You Love Me

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1946
  • Dragonwyck

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1946
  • The Dark Corner

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1946
  • Behind Green Lights

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1946
  • Shock

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1946
  • Colonel Effingham's Raid

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1946
  • Leave Her to Heaven

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1945
  • Fallen Angel

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1945
  • A Bell for Adano

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1945
  • The Caribbean Mystery

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1945
  • Molly and Me

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1945
  • The Bullfighters

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1945
  • A Royal Scandal

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1945
  • Hangover Square

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1945
  • Winged Victory

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1944
  • Five Graves to Cairo

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1943
  • The Lady Eve

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1941
  • Wife, Husband and Friend

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1939
  • Jesse James

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1939
  • Mutiny on the Bounty

    makeup artist

    costume & make-up
    1935