Costume & Make-Up

Tony Gardner

Born September 25, 1965 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA (age 60)

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 an…

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Jackass: Best and Last

Jackass: Best and Last · 2026

Jackass: Best and Last

MovieActionComedy

The fifth and final installment to Jackass franchise where the crew go on one last insane crusade.

Scary Movie 2

Scary Movie 2 · 2001

A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue.

Angels & Demons

Angels & Demons · 2009

Angels & Demons

MovieThrillerMystery

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.

Batman & Robin

Batman & Robin · 1997

MovieActionScience Fiction

Batman and his sidekick Robin attempt to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new villains, most notably the melancholy Mr. Freeze, who wants to make Gotham City into an arctic region, and the sultry Poison Ivy, a botanical femme fatale. As the Dynamic Duo contend with these bad guys, a third hero, Batgirl, joins the ranks of the city's crime-fighters.

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse · 2015

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

MovieComedyHorror

Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.

Army of Darkness

Army of Darkness · 1992

Army of Darkness

MovieFantasyHorror

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

There's Something About Mary

There's Something About Mary · 1998

There's Something About Mary

MovieRomanceComedy

For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.

127 Hours

127 Hours · 2010

MovieAdventureDrama

The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

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Jackass: Best and Last

Jackass: Best and Last · 2026

Jackass: Best and Last

MovieActionComedy

The fifth and final installment to Jackass franchise where the crew go on one last insane crusade.

Makeup Effects Designer

Scary Movie 2

Scary Movie 2 · 2001

A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue.

Makeup Designer

Angels & Demons

Angels & Demons · 2009

Angels & Demons

MovieThrillerMystery

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.

Prosthetic Makeup Artist

Batman & Robin

Batman & Robin · 1997

MovieActionScience Fiction

Batman and his sidekick Robin attempt to the foil the sinister schemes of a deranged set of new villains, most notably the melancholy Mr. Freeze, who wants to make Gotham City into an arctic region, and the sultry Poison Ivy, a botanical femme fatale. As the Dynamic Duo contend with these bad guys, a third hero, Batgirl, joins the ranks of the city's crime-fighters.

Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse · 2015

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

MovieComedyHorror

Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.

Special Effects Key Makeup Artist

Army of Darkness

Army of Darkness · 1992

Army of Darkness

MovieFantasyHorror

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

There's Something About Mary

There's Something About Mary · 1998

There's Something About Mary

MovieRomanceComedy

For Ted, prom night went about as bad as it’s possible for any night to go. Thirteen years later, he finally gets another chance with his old prom date, only to run up against other suitors including the sleazy detective he hired to find her.

Animatronics Designer

127 Hours

127 Hours · 2010

MovieAdventureDrama

The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

Makeup Effects Designer

Old

MovieThrillerMystery

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

Makeup Effects Designer

Me, Myself & Irene

Me, Myself & Irene · 2000

Me, Myself & Irene

Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named Irene after Charlie loses his medication.

Makeup Effects Designer

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls · 1995

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

MovieCrimeComedy

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.

Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects

The Rivals of Amziah King

The Rivals of Amziah King · 2026

The Rivals of Amziah King

MovieCrimeDrama

Deep within the backwoods of rural Oklahoma, charismatic and musically gifted Amziah King herds a bluegrass-playing band of misfits while overseeing the premier honey-making operation in town. When Amziah’s estranged foster daughter unexpectedly returns, Amziah leaps at the possibility to renew connection and create a family business. But the honey game is ruthless, and Amziah’s rivals threaten to destroy everything he has built.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Shallow Hal

Shallow Hal · 2001

MovieComedyDrama

After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But that all changes after Hal has an unexpected run-in with self-help guru Tony Robbins. Intrigued by Hal's shallowness, Robbins hypnotizes him into seeing the beauty that exists even in the least physically appealing women. Hal soon falls for Rosemary, but he doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend is actually a 300-pound-not-so-hottie.

Makeup Effects Designer

Hocus Pocus 2

Hocus Pocus 2 · 2022

MovieFantasyComedy

29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallow's Eve.

Makeup Effects

Seed of Chucky

Seed of Chucky · 2004

MovieHorrorComedy

This time around, Chucky and his homicidal honey, Tiffany, are brought back to life by their orphan offspring, Glen. Then the horror goes Hollywood as Chucky unleashes his own brand of murderous mayhem!

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Jackass Forever

Jackass Forever · 2022

Jackass Forever

MovieActionComedy

The Jackass crew, along with some newcomers, returns for one more round of hilarious, absurd, and dangerous stunts.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys · 1987

MovieHorrorComedy

When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.

Special Effects

Jackass: The Movie

Jackass: The Movie · 2002

Jackass: The Movie

MovieActionComedy

Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time. They wander around Japan in panda outfits, wreak havoc on a once civilized golf course, they even do stunts involving LIVE alligators, and so on.

Makeup Effects Designer

Freaky

MovieHorrorComedy

A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

The Watch

The Watch · 2012

MovieComedyAction

Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood – and the world – from total extermination.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Bean

MovieFamilyAdventure

Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him fired is blocked by the chairman, who has taken a liking to Bean, they send him to Los Angeles to act as their ambassador for the unveiling of a historic painting to humiliate him. Fooled, Mr. Bean must now successfully unveil the painting or risk his and a hapless Los Angeles curator's termination.

Makeup Effects

The Blob

The Blob · 1988

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.

Animatronic and Prosthetic Effects

Mindhunters

Mindhunters · 2004

MovieMysteryThriller

Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. Based very loosely on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.

Makeup Effects

Cult of Chucky

Cult of Chucky · 2017

Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica is wrongly convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family... until a string of grisly deaths occur after her psychiatrist introduces a new group therapy tool -- a "Good Guy" doll.

Animatronics Supervisor

Chucky

SeriesCrimeComedy

After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets. Meanwhile, the arrival of enemies — and allies — from Chucky’s past threatens to expose the truth behind the killings, as well as the demon doll’s untold origins.

Associate Producer