updated: 14/01/2002












These are disguises that reply on a change wig/hairstyle, and different makeup. They have been used by characters in comedies, caper movies, thrillers, Film Noir, TV mini-series, and just about every other movie and TV genre.
Some of them are good but often they leave you with a belief problem: why didn’t he notice she was wearing a wig when he ran his fingers through her hair? why didn’t her husband recognise her? This is not so much a criticism of the makeup as of the storyline: a more complex makeup would often just beg a different set of questions. However Snake Eyes is a good illustration on the amount of work that goes into designing what seems to be a simple and straightforward disguise.
These images are mostly taken from movies and TV programmes from the 1980s: there are separate thumbnail pages from pre-1980 movies, 1990s movies and recent movies.