Ah, I've gotcha now. I'll think on it some more, but off the top of my head I'd have to say Man from UNCLE is the first to do the latex full facial mask disguise you are talking about.

Gary "maybe there's some obscure example sitting out there, but it's not readily coming to mind for me" O.

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