Antony Clavet
Open-knowledge reference entry
Antony Clavet (May 6, 1945 – October 24, 1990) was a Canadian make-up artist and hair stylist.
Early life and career
Antony Clavet was born in Saint-François, New Brunswick on May 6, 1945, to parents Harvey and Rita Clavet. He was of Acadian descent. Clavet moved to Montreal at age 16 where he began working as a make-up artist for drag performers and strippers, eventually landing a position at Elizabeth Arden. He was particularly known for his extensive work with David Bowie, having done make-up and hair for several of Bowie's album covers, portraits, films, and music videos such as those for "Heroes" and "Let's Dance".
Clavet died of bone cancer on October 24, 1990, in Biarritz, France, at age 45.
Selected filmography
The Disappearance (1977)
The Hunger (1983)
Merry Christmas, Mr.
“Antony Clavet” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Antony, Clavet and Open-knowledge can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“Antony Clavet” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Antony, Clavet and Open-knowledge provides the most credible route into that argument.
Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137830668. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1945, 1990, 1977 and 1983.
A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.
- Subject orientation
- Search vocabulary
- Locating named sources
The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Antony Clavet”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Antony Clavet primary sources, Antony Clavet archive and Antony research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Antony Clavet”?
- What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
- Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Antony Clavet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.