Issue link: http://digital.copcomm.com/i/831804
50 SECRETARY-TREASURER NEWS EXTENDED FAMILY NEWS LOOKS LAST LOOKS NEWS HEALTH AND WELFARE NEWS CREW CREW SHOTS CREDITS PHOTO CREDITS GUILD GUILD NEWS the Restless, and was also nominated for a Hollywood Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Award for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Steve Artmont was a beloved and devoted husband to wife Candy and father of daughter Nicole, a Local 706 make-up artist and Peter, a graphic artist. Christine George (1928–2015) With a firecracker personality, Christine (Widmeyer) George was a journeyman hair stylist who began her career in salons, but then learned the trade of film and television hair styl- ing at MGM, Warner Bros., Review Studios, ABC Television and NBC. She became a member of Local 706 in 1954 and became a journeyman hair stylist in 1960. Christine (and Debbie Reynold's make-up artist brother Bill Reynolds) went on tour with Debbie Reynolds across the country, playing to "smash, sold-out houses." When the review ended, Christine returned to Los Angeles and began working mostly in television. She worked on Mannix, Barbary Coast, The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Crazy Like a Fox. Chris also did numerous movies of the week and iconic feature films—Grease, National Lampoon's European Vacation, Diner and Remo Williams: The Prophecy. Christine George retired in 1990, but occasionally kept in touch with the Local. She moved to Rancho Cucamonga and eventually to Indio, but then we did not hear from her. It was reported to us just recently that Chris had passed away in 2015. Evelyn Preece (1942–2017) She was feisty, fun and she loved styl- ing hair. Journeyman hair stylist Evelyn Preece began her career as a wig and styling instructor at Laurel Beauty Academy, but made it part of her con- tract that she could take off any number of days without notice to pursue her career in the movie industry. That was her goal and nothing was going to stop her. Evelyn worked at MGM, Disney, Columbia, Universal and Filmways to earn the days necessary to join Local 706. She was accepted in 1968 and rose to journeyman status. She worked primarily in feature films California Suite, Breakheart Pass, Sextette, Damnation Alley, When the Storm God Rides and The Silk and the Gun. Evelyn's hair styling career was not long but it was eventful. She met direc- When he finally returned to America (still working with the Burtons), Ron just worked from feature films to epi- sodic television and back again. In the mid-1990s, he garnered three Emmy nominations and won in 1997 for the HBO cable series Tracy Takes On… for the wonderful characters that were cre- ated along with Tom & Bari Burman and his wife Kathleen Berkeley. Ron and Kathleen settled in Texas, but he kept on working on distant locations. The Flight of the Phoenix took him to Namibia. JFK, Chaplin, The Doors, Dave, Maverick and The Truman Show kept him in the US and got work close to home—The Alamo, Rain and The Wendell Baker Story didn't require a pass- port. Ron was also make-up artist for Dennis Quaid—and of course, their last film was in Canada. He was one of the most respected make-up artists in our industry—with the ability to create characters and make his own prosthetics as well as work with the most beautiful women in film history. Ron Berkeley was present- ed his Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild 50-year membership pin 2008 and became a resident of the Motion Picture Television Fund retirement campus where he was residing when he passed. Ron Berkeley is survived by his wife Kathleen Berkeley and three children; daughter Ronda and two sons Rex and Richard. At this time, no ser- vices have been announced. Ronald Berkeley (1930–2017) A third-generation filmmaker with a strong fine arts background, Ron began as an apprentice at MGM Studios in 1954, under the direction of William Tuttle and Charles Schram and became a full journeyman in 1958. He was under contract with MGM for 14 years working in the department's lab and keyed films both overseas as and in the US. Ron lived in Europe for many years as the personal make-up artist for Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, doing 30 films with Taylor, and 37 with Burton. He traveled the world on films such as The Manchurian Candidate, The Taming of the Shrew, Anne of the Thousand Days, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. In 1967, he wrote a letter to Local 706 from Paris: "I can't tell you all how much I miss you, working here is really a hassle. I leave tomorrow for six weeks in Greece with Michael Redgrave and Chris Plummer on Oedipus the King, and then return to Paris for two months on a Rex Harrison film. After that the Burtons go again for one year on three films—so I won't be home for a while —I really wish there was something that could be done about "runaway production."