Exclusive: Jeff Dawn Shares Never-Before-Seen Terminator Photos!

Recently, when I reconnected with my Academy Award-wining friend, Jeff Dawn (make-up artist of the Schwarzenegger Terminator trilogy), I was in for a real treat when he told me he had a big collection of never-before-seen Terminator photos to show me. Being a big fan of TheArnoldFans, Jeff not only shared some great stories and details of these photos but he's letting me post these gems for the fans to see!  Although we might have seen one or two of these in the past, most of these are being shared with Terminator fans for the very first time! They're taken by Jeff and Arnold's hairstylist from T1.

I spoke with Jeff over the phone while he was in LA taking a break from working on his Hawaii-based series, Hawaii 5.0. His comments are attached to several images below. So come with me now if you want to live through these stories recalled by Jeff Dawn and feast your eyes on some Terminator bliss!

Jeff Dawn: If you look top center, there's a woman who's bald on top and that's just how she was. I link she had some disease. The pulled some people who were missing body parts and people who were not your A-list extras. Below her there is a guy holding a neon light that's turned on. That is Kelly Edwards who was Kyle Reese's stand in and photo double. He's decked out there as Kyle.

Jeff Dawn: Franco only worked one day on this. It's funny because to this day, if you talk to him...like if I pump into him on a set or if Arnold brings him over, he'll still say, 'oh, that dirt! There was so much dirt, I hated that!' So you can see on his face right there, that he's not happy and he's about to get sprits. He's not happy and you can just see the look on his face. He had this big gun. It was a gas-operated weapon. It was almost like a flame-thrower that would do it in repetition. It had to have a gas feed to it and it had to have an ignitor on it so you had an actual flame pop out of it. It worked at the time but now-a-days, it's so barbaric. It was incredibly heavy but Franco is not exactly a week guy.

Jeff Dawn: That's the fake hydraulic arm and that's such an amazing shot that James Cameron came up with. Because it was such a cumbersome hydraulic mechanism, it had to be picked up by a forklift. So there's a forklift right behind him. The car couldn't be moving so they took fake brick, a big wall and drove it by on a truck in the background. So for that slow-motion shot, when he's plunging his hand through the window (with his REAL arm tucked up behind him), they have the truck going by so it looked like the car was backing up. That's typical James Cameron...just thinking up that stuff so fast. He did it in one take.

Jeff Dawn: That's our make-up trailer. Peter Kent is to our left, a wardrobe person is next to him. Sitting down in the back, that's Lisa, Gale's assistant. Above her was a stand-in. Then we have Michael Biehn, a wardrobe person over his shoulder, a wardrobe designer below Biehn, then there's Linda, and Kelly Edwards, Biehn's stand-in and then sitting down on the right, that's our medic.

Jeff Dawn: Arnold is there with a cigar in his mouth. Peter Kent is in the photo but he's hard to see. He's got a while shirt in the back and you just make out his shoulders. Over Peter's left shoulder (our right) is myself. That's me back there. Stan Winston was not here this day. Of corse we see James Cameron there. Just to his left, a woman with glasses and a cap, that's Betsy Magruder, our first-assistant director. We have Kelly Edwards, the stand-in for Michael Biehn. He's at Jim's left (our right) wearing sunglasses and sitting looking up at Jim. The guy to his left (our right) with a porn-star mustache, that's Greg Robbins, who was also a stand in. In front of Greg, with her head down was Lisa (camera in her hand), Gale Anne Hurd's assistant. Linda is looking at her, she was our medic. Of course we have Gale right there.

Jeff Dawn: At the time, I was probably 220 pounds and I was really into weight lifting. And of course Arnold was my idol! There was never anybody that I looked up to in my life except for Arnold. So for me to get a phone call one day from Gale Anne Hurd (I believe), and say, 'can you come up to my house on Mulholland Drive and meet James Cameron, who's the writer and director of this film The Terminator. We'd like to meet you.' I remember the first time I heard about it, I didn't know who was in it. Then I picked up a Drama Log (a weekly or monthly paper) and I looked it up and I was like, 'Oh my God, Arnold Schwarzenegger!' I was blown away. Here's my idol.

Thanks, Jeff! Now check out the rest of the images below! Are you a Terminator fan for life? If so, be sure to keep coming back to TheArnoldFans and TheTerminatorFans.com. We'll be back with more news!