Tony Gardner
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.
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Films (81)
Oklahoma Honey
2026 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
Jackass: le meilleur pour la fin
2026 · Makeup Effects Designer
Robot Dracula
2026 · Tony
Lettre au père Noël : Une satanée erreur
2024 · Makeup Designer
Doc of Chucky
2024 · Self
Abracadabra 2
2022 · Makeup Effects
Living with Chucky
2022 · Self, Associate Producer
Jackass 4.5
2022 · Self (archive footage), Makeup Effects Designer
Terror en el Estudio 666
2022 · Makeup Effects Designer
Jackass toujours
2022 · Special Effects Makeup Artist, Makeup Effects Designer
Anormal
2021 · Makeup Effects Designer
Bad Hair: Belleza maldita
2021 · Makeup Effects Designer
Bizarre
2020 · Special Effects Makeup Artist, Makeup Effects Designer
Les sextuplés
2019 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
Hell Fest: Juegos Diabólicos
2018 · Costume Design
The Dollhouse
2017 · Self
Le Retour de Chucky
2017 · Animatronics Supervisor, Associate Producer
Woodshock
2017 · Makeup Effects
Le clan maudit
2017 · Makeup Effects Designer, Co-Producer
The FX of Return of the Living Dead
2016
Medieval Times: The Making of "Army of Darkness"
2015 · Self
Manuel de survie à l'apocalypse zombie
2015 · Special Effects Key Makeup Artist
Daft Punk Unchained
2015 · Self
El payaso del mal
2014 · Makeup Effects
Bad Grandpa
2014 · Self, Makeup Effects Designer
Bad Grandpa
2013 · Special Effects Makeup Artist, Makeup Effects Designer
La Malédiction de Chucky
2013 · Puppeteer
Voisins du troisième type
2012 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
Jack et Julie
2011 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
2011 · Himself
Jackass 3.5, le film
2011 · Makeup Effects Designer
127 Heures
2010 · Makeup Effects Designer
Jackass 3D
2010 · Makeup Effects Designer
Le tueur en moi
2010 · Prosthetic Designer
Bitch Slap
2009 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
Anges et Démons
2009 · Prosthetic Makeup Artist
What We Take from Each Other
2008 · Special Effects Coordinator
Ben 10: Course contre la montre
2008 · Special Effects Makeup Artist, Prop Designer
Jackass 2.5
2007 · Makeup Effects Designer
Hairspray: Transforming Travolta to Turnblad
2007 · Self
Hairspray
2007 · Makeup Effects
Jackass deux, le film
2006 · Makeup Effects Designer
Treize à la douzaine 2
2005 · Makeup Designer
Le Fils de Chucky
2004 · Tony Gardner, Special Effects Makeup Artist
Profession profiler
2004 · Makeup Effects
Making It Stick: The Makeup Effects of Stuck on You
2004 · Self
Deux en un
2003 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
Jackass, le film
2002 · Makeup Effects Designer
Shallow Hal: Seeing Through the Make-up
2002 · Self
Being 'Shallow Hal'
2001 · Self
L'Amour extra-large
2001 · Makeup Effects Designer
Scary Movie 2
2001 · Makeup Designer
Fous d'Irène
2000 · Makeup Effects Designer
28 jours en sursis
2000 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
Stir of Echoes
1999 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
Go
1999 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
There's Something About Mary
1998 · Animatronics Designer
Bean
1997 · Makeup Effects
Batman & Robin
1997 · Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects
Lifeform
1996 · Producer
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
1995 · Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects
Tank Girl
1995 · Costume Design
Born to Be Wild
1995 · Associate Producer
It's Pat
1994 · Costume Design
Ghost in the Machine
1993 · Makeup Effects Designer
Full Eclipse
1993 · Costume Design, Special Effects Key Makeup Artist
Freaked
1993 · Makeup Designer
Army of Darkness
1992 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
The Babe
1992 · Special Props
Mobsters
1991 · Makeup Effects
Psycho IV: The Beginning
1990 · Makeup Effects, Makeup Artist
Darkman
1990 · Burn Ward Nurse / Lizard Man (uncredited), Special Effects Makeup Artist
Rockula
1990 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
Nightbreed
1990 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
Dark Angel
1990 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
Tale of Two Sisters
1989 · Makeup Effects
The Blob
1988 · Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects
Out of the Dark
1988 · Special Effects Makeup Artist
The Lost Boys
1987 · Special Effects
Michael Jackson's Thriller
1983 · Zombie Crawling Out of Grave (uncredited), Makeup Effects
Diggin’ Up "Bones"
· Self
