Ron Berkeley was Richard Burton's makeup artist on numerous projects, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Staircase (1969), Bluebeard (1972), Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), Equus (1977), The Wild Geese (1978) and the 1980s TV series Wagner. He also did makeup for Elizabether Taylor on several of her feature films, including Giant (1956), Raintree County (1957) and Night Watch (1973).

He was nominated for an Emmy four years in a row for his work on Tracey Takes On... taking home the award in 1997.