Maurice Seiderman(1907-1989)

He was Orson Welles's personal make-up artist on many films, usually uncredited. Welles personally took out full-page advertisements in trade papers to praise Seiderman's brilliant and innovative work on "Citizen Kane", and often called him "the greatest make-up man in the world".

No-one held my hand on "Citizen Kane" and told me what to do. Orson realized that I understood the overall view of the picture, what he was attempting to do, and that I could handle it. This is why I loved Orson Welles and still do. This is also why I quit pictures, even after becoming head of RKO's make-up department: there were no other people like Welles to work with.