Make Up Artist Who Created Obi-Wan Kenobi and Other Icons Dies at 98

The Takeaway

Stuart Freeborn, the make up artist and visual creator of movie characters such as Obi-Wan Kenobi, died yesterday. He was 98.  Freeborn turned actor Ron Moody into the street thief Fagin for the Musical Oliver, and he also captured movie-goer imaginations back in 1948 when he made Sir Alec  Guinness  into Fagin in David Lean’s Oliver Twist.

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