- During the horror/sci-fi boom of the 1950s, makeup man Harry Thomas was associated with some of the most memorable personalities and pictures of the period. He worked with Roger Corman, Edward D. Wood Jr., Tor Johnson and Richard E. Cunha, and contributed to such films as Frankenstein's Daughter (1958), Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), Killers from Space (1954), The Neanderthal Man (1953), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) and many more. Thomas began his career in the 1930s when one of his first jobs was at MGM working under renowned makeup artist Jack Dawn and his assistant William Tuttle. Thomas is best-known for his work on horror movies, in which he almost invariably had to make something out of nothing.
- IMDb mini biography by: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com> (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
- He was a freelance makeup artist. Throughout a forty-plus year career, he worked on major Hollywood productions as well ultra low budget films.
- He was on the makeup team on Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" (1956), the biggest budget Hollywood film at that time. The following year, he did the makeup on Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s infamous "Plan Nine from Outer Space" (1957).
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