Verne Langdon

Vernon Loring "Verne" Langdon (September 15, 1941 – January 1, 2011) was an American mask maker, musician, magician, circus clown, make-up artist, and wrestler.[1] He was also a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Verne Langdon
Born
Vernon Loring Langdon

(1941-09-15)September 15, 1941
Oakland, California, U.S.
DiedJanuary 1, 2011(2011-01-01) (aged 69)
Arizona, U.S.
Resting placeValhalla Memorial Park Cemetery
Occupation
RelativesRed Nichols (uncle)
Websitevernelangdon.com

Biography

Born in Oakland, California, Langdon was known in cult monster mask circles as the creative force behind the Don Post Studios "Calendar Masks" (1963 to 1968). He was also the creator of the most sought-after collector's mask, "The Zombie", and was creator-producer of the cult classic Decca LP An Evening With Boris Karloff And His Friends.[2] With Jay Stein and Terry Winnick he created The Land of a Thousand Faces Makeup Show in 1975 and the Castle Dracula horror show in 1980 for Universal Studios Tour, Hollywood, California.[3] He has produced, written, performed and recorded thirty one albums for two record labels, Electric Lemon Record Co., and Dejavu Record Company.[4] His most recent album was released on March 16, 2009, Jonathan Winters – A Very Special Time. The nineteen-track, spoken-word album, featured memorial tracks with all music composed by Verne Langdon.[5]

Langdon was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.[6] He was a special guest of the Monsterpalooza – The Art of Monsters on April 9, 2010, in The Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel in Burbank, California.[7]

Langdon died, at the age of 69, on January 1, 2011.[8]

gollark: In any case, maybe I'm just used to hilariously powerful mods, but a turtle which digs slowly and might randomly break is just... not very good compared to a quarry.
gollark: Er, you need three diamonds.
gollark: Where it shines is in performing random useful tasks which there isn't dedicated hardware available for, linking together disparate systems (much more practically than redstone), working as a "microcontroller" to control something based on a bunch of input data, and entertainment-/decorative-type things (displaying stuff on monitors and whatnot, and music with Computronics).
gollark: For example, quarrying. CC has turtles. They can dig things. They can move. You can make a quarry out of this, and people have. But in practice, they're not hugely fast or efficient, and it's hard to make it work well in the face of stuff like server restarts, while a dedicated quarrying device from a mod will handle this fine and probably go faster if you can power it somehow.
gollark: I honestly don't think CC is particularly overpowered even with turtles. While it can technically do basically anything, most bigger packs will have special-purpose devices which are more expensive but do it way better, while CC is very annoying to have work.

References
  1. "Vernon Loring "Verne" Langdon (1941–2011)". Find a Grave. Retrieved July 18, 2018.
  2. Verne Langdon recordings
  3. Castle Dracula horror show
  4. An Evening With Boris Karloff And His Friends Archived June 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. The Land Of A Thousand Faces Makeup Show
  6. ASCAP
  7. Monsterpalooza Details; Show-Runner Eliot Brodsky Speaks
  8. http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=12193.0
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