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Gerald Quist

American make-up artist

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ115948440 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gerald Quist is an American make-up artist. He won five Primetime Emmy Awards and was nominated for eleven more in the category Outstanding Makeup for his work on the television programs Highway to Heaven, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Quantum Leap, American Playhouse, Buffalo Girls, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Olive Kitteridge and Westworld and also the television film David.

Filmography

Wyatt Earp (1994)

Mr. Holland's Opus (1995)

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Editorial summary

“Gerald Quist” enters the record as american make-up artist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gerald, Quist and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gerald, Quist and American.
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Why this record matters

“Gerald Quist” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gerald, Quist and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q115948440. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gerald Quist” 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.