ABSTRACT
Paul Huntley, master wig designer and maker, was presented the Tony Award for Excellence over fifteen years ago for designing and crafting wigs for hundreds of productions on Broadway. Between acting jobs, he worked as a dishwasher at Lyons Corner House, a popular chain of eateries in England, and one day he met a fellow actor who told Huntley he had just applied for a job at Wig Creations, the largest theatrical wigmakers in the world at the time. Stanley Hall, whom Huntley calls “one of those incredible mentors,” began his career as a makeup artist at Pinewood Studios with Alexander Korda in the 1930s. Huntley collaborated with Hall on some of the most iconic films of the twentieth century and for most of the finest leading ladies of the cinema. Stanley Hall and his business partner retained ownership of Wig Creations even as he gave Huntley more and more responsibility and authority over the work.
