Bud Westmore is born in New Orleans in 1918. His long career as a make-up artist included more than 100 credits in TV and film including 70 episodes of The Munsters, the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone, and seven episodes of The Night Gallery as well as the films Creature From the Black Lagoon, The Creature Walks Among Us, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Thing That Couldn’t Die, and Soylent Green. He died in 1973.
This Day in Halloween: Make-up artist Bud Westmore -- whose work includes "Creature from the Black Lagoon" -- is born in New Orleans in 1918. / Illustration by Sam Chavez