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Television
Antenne2, Fr.3, CBS News (in Europe) for Dan Rather for 8 years…
Fashion and commercials
Lloyds, American Airlines, Thomson, Usinor, Nintendo, Verkade, Newman, Jeans DUBS, Lazartigues, Samaritaine, Hair-Spray, etc...
Parisian Collections of the famous american stylist Vicky Tiel from 1978 till 1982.
Events
LE CASQUE : Film de sécurité pour la SNCF…
Links
Publications on Internet (in French)
And much more…
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TV Series
L'HOMME DE LA NUIT (Juan Luis Buñuel)
Jean JAURES : VIE ET MORT D'UN SOCIALISTE (Ange Casta)
GRAND PÈRE VIKING (Claude-Jean Bonnardot)
LES FAUCHEURS DE MARGUERITES (Marcel Camus)
LE TEMPS DES AS (Yves Boissol)
LA BATAILLE DE LA ROCHELLE (Jean-Claude Delassus)
CONTRE UT (Série Lyrique) (Pierre Petit)
MALICAN, PÈRE ET FILS (Several directors)
SÉRIE ROSE(Several directors)
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Stage work (only a few…)
THAMOS (creation in Paris of Mozart's first ever opera) (Carlos Otero)
LES MISÉRABLES (Robert Hossein)
VOLTAIRE'S FOLIES (Gérard Marot)
L'OISEAU BLEU (Daniel Dancourt)
VAMP (Gérard Cailleau)
SIMPLEX (Guy Cayat)
LES DERNIERS HOMMES (Jean-Luc Jenner)
CINEMA, PLACEZ-VOUS OÙ VOUS VOUDREZ ! (Jean-Claude Le Saul)
ROSA, ROSIS (Guy Cayat)
ROMEO AND JULIET (Daniel Dancourt)
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RÉSUMÉ (Abridged)
Motion pictures
LES ASSASSINS DE L'ORDRE (Marcel Carné)
LA CHAIR DE L'ORCHIDÉE (Patrice Chéreau)
PEAU D'ANE (Jacques Demy)
TOUCHE PAS (À) LA FEMME BLANCHE !, (Marco Ferreri)
L'AVARE (Jean Giraud & Louis de Funès)
LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME (Roger Coggio)
LE CONCIERGE (Jean Giraud)
LA GRANDE LESSIVE (Jean-Pierre Mocky)
LES MOTS POUR LE DIRE (José Pinheiro)
LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, CHOUCROUTE (Jean Yanne)
IL ÉTAIT UNE FOIS JEAN SÉBASTIEN BACH (Jean-Louis Guillermou)
L'ESCALIER (Staircase) (Stanley Donen)
THE BREACKTHROUGH (La percée d'Avranches) (Andy V. McLaglen)
LOVESPELL (Tristan & Yseult), (Tom Donavan)
LA RIVALE, (Sergio Gobbi)
The sun also rises - 2nd unit (Le soleil se lève aussi), (James Goldstone)
LES FILLES DE GRENOBLE, (Joël Le Moign')
LIBERTY, (Richard Sarafian)
LES FOURBERIES DE SCAPIN, (Roger Coggio)
LES AMIS, (Gérard Blain)
POUCE ! (Pierre Badel)
NI AVEC TOI, NI SANS TOI, (Alain Maline)
VERSAILLES, ou Le rêve d'un Roy… (Thierry Benisti)
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BIOGRAPHY
Beauty, disguises and transformations of any kind, wounds or creation of extraordinary characters, with or without hair pieces or appliances, are Alain Folgoas's passion since childhood, since he always liked to make himself up and radically change his appearance, or someone else's, in a likely and credible way. He started make up in his Highschool Theater Group, keenly doing agings (he was then nicknamed "The Old people factory") with wax and rubber noses, which helped him extensively later on when he started his career as an actor and a lyrical singer.
He then met Arakelian, the famous make up artist of Cocteau's world famous Beauty and the Beast. The Master invited young Alain to join his course in the first Professional Make up School ever created in Paris, and he got there his diploma as Maquilleur d'Art.
From the start of his career, he improved his various techniques of make up and hand-laying facial hair with some of the best make up artists of the time, french and foreign. Then, he started to make prosthetics appliances in a period where no french make up artist could make them, and from 1973 on, he developed in his laboratory his own specific formulas and products, such as foam latex and plastic cap material, that were not yet available in France. This gave him a solid reputation as a special make-up artist that led him to work on many french and american telefilms, series, and films with famous actors.
While working on one of many stage productions, which he likes as much as film making, Alain won the only award ever allotted to a french make up artist so far, the
Grand Prix Renaud - Barrault.
Make-up artistry is not yet acknowledged, nor therefore awarded anything, by the french official academies, only God knows why…
Be it for screens, different stages, events or children, he likes practicing equally every aspect of Make up Artistry, beauty and character works, and can work on one single actor or the whole production cast, or even as a daily artist with the same pleasure, according to the productions needs.
Alain willingly passes on his experience to trainees and assistants, or through some intensive training courses, or when a school calls for him. He also lectures (in french or english) about his trade and artistry, and wrote in 1993 a book published in 1994 (Dessain & Tolra Publishers)
The book contains more than 120 photographs on how-to design several different characters, and is still available from the publisher or through Internet. Since 2009, he writes and often updates (in french) chronicles intended to beginners, make up artists and directors, but also valuable for more experienced talents.
Since his débuts, between two periods of make-up activity, he also continues a happy career as an actor and a baritone singer.
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