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Wes Dawn (18 December 193815 August 1990; age 51) was a makeup artist who worked on Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.

For The Voyage Home, he shared a Saturn Award nomination for Best Make-Up in 1987 with fellow makeup artists James Lee McCoy and his nephew, Jeff Dawn.

In addition to his nephew, Dawn's father was the legendary makeup artist Jack Dawn, and his brother, Robert Dawn, worked as a makeup artist on Star Trek: The Original Series.

Dawn started his career in the entertainment industry in the early '70s with credits as make-up artist in Adam at 6 A.M. (1970), The Baby Maker (1970), Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), Sweet Revenge (1976), Carrie (1976), Up in Smoke (1978), and The Gift (1979 film)|The Gift (1979).

Beside his work behind the cameras he performed stunts as a Jaguar Team member in The Gumball Rally (1976, with Michael Sarrazin, Tricia O'Neil, and Eddy Donno), as Peters in The President's Mistress (1978, with Thalmus Rasulala, Gail Strickland, Michael Bell, Biff Yeager, and Jason Wingreen), and as a L.A.P.D. Officer in Into the Night (1985, with John Hostetter, Viola Stimpson, Bruce McGill, and Eddy Donno).

Further credits in the makeup department include Stunts Unlimited (1980, along with hair stylist Silvia Abascal), Urban Cowboy (1980, with Silvia Abascal and Susan Zietlow-Maust), Young Doctors in Love (1982, along with James Kail and Shirley Crawford), Red Dawn (1984), the television drama Baby M (1988, with Hazel Catmull), Die Hard (1988), The Hunt for Red October (1990), and Flight of the Intruder (1991, along Jeff Dawn).

In 1989, Dawn was part of the makeup crew which earned two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Miniseries or a Special for the drama War and Remembrance and shared these nominations with fellow Trek artists Thomas R. Burman, Bari Burman, and James Kail. The last movie Dawn worked on, Point Break (1991, starring Lori Petty), was dedicated to him. Dawn passed away in Los Angeles, California in 1990.

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