Herman Buchman

Personal Info

Know For

Costume & Make-Up

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-05-20 (76 years old)

Deathday

1996-01-27

Place of Birth

New York City, New York

Herman Buchman

Biography

Herman Buchman, makeup artist, author, educator, lecturer and World War II veteran, was born May 20, 1920. "Bucky," as he was nicknamed, attended school in New York City and completed a course in beauty culture at Paul's Hairdressing Academy of New York in December 1939. He received a B. S. degree from Empire State College of the State University of New York (SUNY) in 1975 and was awarded a Ph. D. from the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities in Ohio in 1977. Originally aspiring to become a painter, he was drawn to the art of makeup as a means of rising out of the poverty of the Great Depression. In 1941, he moved to California t...

Production

1957

12 Angry Men

as Makeup Artist

1967

The Incident

as Makeup Artist

1962

The Miracle Worker

as Makeup Artist

1961

Something Wild

as Makeup Artist

1971

The Panic in Needle Park

as Makeup Artist

1962

1956

Patterns

as Makeup Artist

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