Tony Gardner

61, from Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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Biography

Tony Gardner is an American makeup designer, special effects designer and puppeteer. He has designed and created effects for many feature films, including the films Zombieland, 127 Hours, Smokin' Aces, Hairspray, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, The Addams Family, Seed of Chucky, Shallow Hal and There's Something About Mary. Gardner helped create the signature helmets for Daft Punk, as well as an animatronic robot for their "Technologic" music video. He wrote and directed Daft Punk's music video for the song "The Prime Time of Your Life" and associate produced and populated a world full of robots for the duo's feature-length directorial debut, Daft Punk's Electroma. Beyond the film-making arena, Gardner's special effects company Alterian, Inc. has also designed and created the popular GEICO Cavemen characters as well as the current iteration of Smokey Bear.

Timeline

2026Aged 61

  • Poster for Robot Dracula

    Tony

  • Poster for Jackass: Best and Last

    Makeup Effects Designer

  • Poster for The Rivals of Amziah King

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

2024Aged 59

  • Poster for Doc of Chucky

    Self

  • Poster for Dear Santa

    Makeup Designer

2022Aged 57

  • Poster for Jackass 4.5

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Living with Chucky

    Self

  • Poster for Jackass Forever

    Makeup Effects Designer

  • Poster for Studio 666

    Makeup Effects Designer

  • Poster for Hocus Pocus 2

    Makeup Effects

2021Aged 56

  • Poster for Bad Hair

    Makeup Effects Designer

  • Poster for Old

    Makeup Effects Designer

2020Aged 55

  • Poster for Freaky

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

2019Aged 54

  • Poster for Sextuplets

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

2018Aged 53

  • Poster for Hell Fest

    Costume Design

2017Aged 52

  • Poster for The Dollhouse

    Self

  • Poster for The Bad Batch

    Makeup Effects Designer

  • Poster for Woodshock

    Makeup Effects

  • Poster for Cult of Chucky

    Animatronics Supervisor

2015Aged 50

  • Poster for Daft Punk Unchained

    Self

  • Poster for Medieval Times: The Making of

    Self

  • Poster for Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

    Special Effects Key Makeup Artist

2014Aged 49

  • Poster for Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5

    Self

  • Poster for Clown

    Makeup Effects

2013Aged 48

  • Poster for Curse of Chucky

    Puppeteer

  • Poster for Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

    Makeup Effects Designer

2012Aged 47

  • Poster for The Watch

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

2011Aged 46

  • Poster for More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead

    Himself

  • Poster for Jackass 3.5

    Makeup Effects Designer

  • Poster for Jack and Jill

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

2010Aged 45

  • Poster for The Killer Inside Me

    Prosthetic Designer

  • Poster for Jackass 3D

    Makeup Effects Designer

  • Poster for 127 Hours

    Makeup Effects Designer

2009Aged 44

  • Poster for Angels & Demons

    Prosthetic Makeup Artist

  • Poster for Bitch Slap

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

2008Aged 43

  • Poster for Ben 10: Race Against Time

    Prop Designer

  • Poster for What We Take from Each Other

    Special Effects Coordinator

2007Aged 42

  • Poster for Hairspray: Transforming Travolta to Turnblad

    Self

  • Poster for Hairspray

    Makeup Effects

  • Poster for Jackass 2.5

    Makeup Effects Designer

2006Aged 41

  • Poster for Jackass Number Two

    Makeup Effects Designer

2005Aged 40

  • Poster for Cheaper by the Dozen 2

    Makeup Designer

2004Aged 39

  • Poster for Making It Stick: The Makeup Effects of Stuck on You

    Self

  • Poster for Seed of Chucky

    Tony Gardner

  • Poster for Mindhunters

    Makeup Effects

2003Aged 38

  • Poster for Stuck on You

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

2002Aged 37

  • Poster for Shallow Hal: Seeing Through the Make-up

    Self

  • Poster for Jackass: The Movie

    Makeup Effects Designer

2001Aged 36

  • Poster for Being 'Shallow Hal'

    Self

  • Poster for Scary Movie 2

    Makeup Designer

  • Poster for Shallow Hal

    Makeup Effects Designer

2000Aged 35

  • Poster for 28 Days

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

  • Poster for Me, Myself & Irene

    Makeup Effects Designer

1999Aged 34

  • Poster for Go

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

  • Poster for Stir of Echoes

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

1998Aged 33

  • Poster for There's Something About Mary

    Animatronics Designer

1997Aged 32

  • Poster for Batman & Robin

    Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects

  • Poster for Bean

    Makeup Effects

1996Aged 31

  • Poster for Lifeform

    Producer

1995Aged 30

  • Poster for Born to Be Wild

    Associate Producer

  • Poster for Tank Girl

    Costume Design

  • Poster for Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

    Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects

1994Aged 29

  • Poster for It's Pat

    Costume Design

1993Aged 28

  • Poster for Freaked

    Makeup Designer

  • Poster for Full Eclipse

    Special Effects Key Makeup Artist

  • Poster for Ghost in the Machine

    Makeup Effects Designer

1992Aged 27

  • Poster for The Babe

    Special Props

  • Poster for Army of Darkness

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

1991Aged 26

  • Poster for Mobsters

    Makeup Effects

1990Aged 25

  • Poster for Darkman

    Burn Ward Nurse / Lizard Man (uncredited)

  • Poster for Dark Angel

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

  • Poster for Nightbreed

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

  • Poster for Rockula

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

  • Poster for Psycho IV: The Beginning

    Makeup Artist

1989Aged 24

  • Poster for Tale of Two Sisters

    Makeup Effects

1988Aged 23

  • Poster for Out of the Dark

    Special Effects Makeup Artist

  • Poster for The Blob

    Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects

1987Aged 22

  • Poster for The Lost Boys

    Special Effects

1983Aged 18

  • Poster for Michael Jackson's Thriller

    Zombie Crawling Out of Grave (uncredited)

Year unknown

  • Poster for Diggin’ Up

    Self