- Father of makeup artists Ben Nye III and Dana Nye.
- Created the whiskers worn by Carroll Nye when he played Frank Kennedy in Gone with the Wind (1939). In fact, the whiskers helped him to get the part; producer David O. Selznick had originally thought him too young for it.
- Ex-father-in-law of Lisa Eichhorn.
- Member of the Society of Makeup Artists (S.M.A.), although rarely credited as such on screen.
- Began his career at Fox studios in 1932, making photostat copies of sheet music. He became an apprentice make-up artist three years later and ended up working on more than 500 films for 20th Century Fox.
- Grandfather of Peter Nye and Kristen J. Nye.
- Created the Ben Nye make-up company after his retirement in 1967.
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