Westmore family

He fathered three generations of movie makeup artists, beginning with his six sons—Perc (pronounced "perss" not "perk"), Ern, Monte, Wally, Bud, and Frank.

By 1926, Monte, Perc, Ern, and Bud had become the chief makeup artists at four major studios and all continued to break ground in new beauty and horror illusions throughout their careers.

In 1923, Perc began a career at First National-Warner Bros. Over twenty-seven years, he worked on the makeup in many films, including the faces of Charles Laughton's The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.

In the early 1920s, he blended Stein Pink greasepaint with eye shadow, preceding Max Factor's Panchromatic.

Later generations have continued the name, including brothers Michael and Marvin, who have excelled in special makeup effects, such as in Blade Runner (1982), Mask (1985), and Raging Bull (1980).