- Father of sons Robert Dawn and Wes Dawn.
- Makeup artist at MGM for virtually his entire career; he worked on only one film (The Big Trail (1930), his first) at another studio.
- Because there was no Oscar category for film makeup during his career, Dawn never received an Academy Award, or even a nomination, for his remarkable makeup creations in the 1939 film classic, The Wizard of Oz (1939).
- Great-grandfather of Patrick Dawn.
- Grandfather of Jeff Dawn.
- Replaced Cecil Holland as the head of the MGM makeup department in 1939.
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