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Makeup artist Howard J. Smit dies

12:55 PM PDT 8/4/2009 by Mike Barnes, AP

Helped establish IATSE Local 706 in 1937

Howard J. Smit, a respected makeup artist who helped found IATSE Local 706 more than seven decades ago and led the campaign to recognize his craft with an Oscar each year, died Aug. 1 at Providence Tarzana Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 98.

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