American prosthetic make-up designer who built Klingon and alien make-ups for the later original-cast films and shared an Oscar nomination for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Richard Snell ran his own prosthetics studio and supplied alien make-ups to the original-cast films from The Voyage Home onwards.
On Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country his shop produced the Klingon foreheads, giving each principal Klingon an individual ridge pattern, as well as the varied aliens of Nimbus III and the Rura Penthe prison.
For Star Trek VI he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Makeup together with Michael Mills and Ed French.