Imaginarium 2024 proudly welcomes award-winning Hollywood makeup artist, actor, filmmaker, and author Michael F. Blake as an Imaginator Guest! A two-time Emmy-winning makeup artist, spent sixty years in the film and television industry before his retirement in 2018. His credits include Westworld, X-Men: First Class, Spider-Man 3, Independence Day, Tough Guys, Happy Days, and numerous other major productions.
Michael’s books on silent screen legend Lon Chaney are the definitive works on the actor, and his trilogy served as the basis for the Turner Classic Movies documentary. His book The Cowboy President: The American West and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt was named by True West magazine as Best Political Biography for 2018, and won the Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award for Best Biography/Memoir.
As a child actor, Michael appeared in such television shows as Adam-12, The Lucy Show, The Munsters, Bonanza, Kung Fu, The Red Skelton Show, and Marcus Welby, M.D.
We are honored and thrilled to have Michael join us for our 11th year, taking place July 19-21, 2024 in Louisville, Kentucky! For further information on the Imaginarium Convention, please visit www.entertheimaginarium.com