Phil Leakey
Philip Leakey was born on 4 May 1908 in
He Worked at Shepperton Studios, before joining Hammer as make-up artist in 1947. Involved in most of Hammer’s best known early films until his departure in 1958. Succeeded by his former assistant Roy Ashton. His first make-up room at Bray Studios was a converted toilet.
Phil used rubber, cornflakes and rice to create the make-up for the alien-infected character Victor Carroon in the The Quatermass Xperiment (1955).
He married to fellow make-up artist Gladys Leakey on 4 October 1940.
Philip Leakey died on 26 November 1992, he was 84.
Philip Leakey’s Hammer Productions (48)
| Year Released | Production | Role |
| 1949 | Celia | Make-up |
| 1950 | Meet Simon Cherry (the Rev) | Make-up |
| 1950 | Room to Let | Make-up |
| 1950 | Someone at the Door | Make-up |
| 1950 | The Adventures of PC 49 | Make-up |
| 1950 | The Lady Craved Excitement | Make-up |
| 1950 | The Man in Black | Make-up |
| 1950 | What the Butler Saw | Make-up |
| 1951 | A Case for PC 49 | Make-up |
| 1951 | Cloudburst | Make-up |
| 1951 | The Black Widow | Make-up |
| 1951 | The Rossiter Case | Make-up |
| 1951 | To Have and to Hold | Make-up |
| 1952 | Death of an Angel | Make-up |
| 1952 | Lady in the Fog | Make-up |
| 1952 | Stolen Face | Make-up |
| 1952 | The Last Page | Make-up |
| 1952 | Whispering Smith Hits London | Make-up |
| 1952 | Wings of Danger | Make-up |
| 1953 | Blood Orange | Make-up |
| 1953 | The Flanagan Boy | Make-up |
| 1953 | The Gambler and the Lady | Make-up |
| 1954 | 36 Hours | Make-up |
| 1954 | The Stranger Came Home | Make-up |
| 1954 | Face the Music | Make-up |
| 1954 | Five Days | Make-up |
| 1954 | Life with the Lyons | Make-up |
| 1954 | Mask of Dust | Make-up |
| 1954 | The Men of Sherwood Forest | Make-up |
| 1955 | Break in the Circle | Make-up |
| 1955 | Murder by Proxy | Make-up |
| 1955 | The Lyons in Paris | Make-up |
| 1955 | The Quatermass Xperiment | Make-up |
| 1955 | Third Party Risk | Make-up |
| 1956 | A Man on the Beach | Make-up |
| 1956 | Women Without Men | Make-up |
| 1956 | X - The Unknown | Make-up and Special Make-up Effects |
| 1957 | Danger List | Make-up |
| 1957 | Quatermass 2 | Make-up |
| 1957 | The Abominable Snowman | Make-up |
| 1957 | The Curse of Frankenstein | Make-up |
| 1957 | The Steel Bayonet | Make-up |
| 1958 | Clean Sweep | Make-up |
| 1958 | Dracula | Make-up |
| 1958 | Further Up the Creek | Make-up |
| 1958 | The Revenge of Frankenstein | Make-up |
| 1958 | The Snorkel | Make-up |
| 1959 | I Only Arsked! | Make-up |