Bart Mixon

Birthday: September 6, 1958 in Houston, Texas, USA

Born in Houston, Texas, Bart J. Mixon began his career in special make-up effects working on local independent productions. Within a few years he was finding work as a lab tech and on set make-up arti ...Show More

Born in Houston, Texas, Bart J. Mixon began his career in special make-up effects working on local independent productions. Within a few years he was finding work as a lab tech and on set make-up artist on projects like A Nightmare On Elm Street, Part 2; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, and Robocop.In 1987, Bart made the big move to Los Angeles, and soon after, he was supervising the special make-up and creature effects for such projects as Fright Night Part 2 and Stephen King's It. Bart has served as the shop foreman for such notable effects houses as Rick Baker's Cinovation Studios, the Chiodo Brothers Productions, and Fantasy II Film FX in house make-up lab, Make-up FX Unlimited.Bart was a co-founder of the make-up effects studio, Mixon and Ellis FX, in 1994. For four years ME-FX created make-ups and creatures for such projects as Men In Black, Peter Benchley's The Beast, Fargo, and Rushmore.In recent years, Bart has served as a project coordinator and/or make-up artist on The Grinch, Planet of the Apes, Men in Black II, The Ring and The Ring Two, Hellbou and X-Men 3.Bart has been a member of Make-up Artists Local 706 since 1994, and is a SAG puppeteer. Hide