Costume & Make-Up

Phyllis Dalton

Born October 16, 1925 · London, England, UK

Died January 9, 2025 · aged 99

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Phyllis Dalton, MBE, (born 16 October 1925) is a British costume designer known for her work on Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Oliver!, The Princess Bride, Henry V and Much Ado About Nothing. She has received two Academy Awards, a BAFTA and an Emmy for her designs.

Known For

The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride · 1987

The Princess Bride

MovieAdventureFantasy

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia · 1962

Lawrence of Arabia

MovieAdventureHistory

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much · 1956

The Man Who Knew Too Much

MovieThrillerMystery

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago · 1965

MovieDramaRomance

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing · 1993

Much Ado About Nothing

MovieDramaComedy

In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.

The Mirror Crack'd

The Mirror Crack'd · 1980

The Mirror Crack'd

MovieMysteryCrime

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Dead Again

Dead Again · 1991

MovieMysteryThriller

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.

Oliver!

Oliver! · 1968

MovieDramaFamily

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.

Filmography

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The Princess Bride

The Princess Bride · 1987

The Princess Bride

MovieAdventureFantasy

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.

Costume Design

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia · 1962

Lawrence of Arabia

MovieAdventureHistory

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.

Costume Design

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much · 1956

The Man Who Knew Too Much

MovieThrillerMystery

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

Costume Supervisor

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago · 1965

MovieDramaRomance

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Costume Design

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing · 1993

Much Ado About Nothing

MovieDramaComedy

In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.

Costume Designer

The Mirror Crack'd

The Mirror Crack'd · 1980

The Mirror Crack'd

MovieMysteryCrime

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Costume Design

Dead Again

Dead Again · 1991

MovieMysteryThriller

In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a detective comes across a mute amnesiac woman who is somehow linked to the Strauss murder.

Costume Design

Oliver!

Oliver! · 1968

MovieDramaFamily

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.

Costume Design

Lord Jim

Lord Jim · 1965

MovieAdventureDrama

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2000.

Costume Design

The Message

The Message · 1976

MovieAdventureDrama

In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.

Costume Design

Scrooge

Scrooge · 1951

MovieFantasyDrama

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.

Costume Design

Voyage of the Damned

Voyage of the Damned · 1976

Voyage of the Damned

A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

Costume Design

Henry V

Henry V · 1989

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.

Costume Design

The Awakening

The Awakening · 1980

When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.

Costume Design

John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones · 1959

John Paul Jones

MovieWarHistory

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

Costume Design

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Hunchback of Notre Dame · 1982

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

MovieDramaRomance

Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre Dame's cathedral, meets a beautiful gypsy dancer, Esmeralda, and falls in love with her. So does Quasimodo's guardian, the archdeacon of the cathedral, and a poor street poet. But Esmeralda's in love with a handsome soldier. When a mob mistakes her for a witch, it's up to Quasimodo to rescue her and claim sanctuary for her in the cathedral.

Costume Design

Zarak

MovieRomanceAction

A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.

Costume Design

Eagle's Wing

Eagle's Wing · 1979

MovieWesternDrama

Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.

Costume Design

Carve Her Name with Pride

Carve Her Name with Pride · 1958

Carve Her Name with Pride

London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.

Costume Designer

Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana · 1960

Our Man in Havana

MovieComedyThriller

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.

Costume Designer

Island in the Sun

Island in the Sun · 1957

Island in the Sun

MovieDramaRomance

A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.

Costume Design

The Last Days of Patton

The Last Days of Patton · 1986

The Last Days of Patton

Gen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of dealing with the difficulty of adapting to his dramatic change of lifestyle, Patton is involved in an auto wreck that leaves him in critical condition. While his body fails him, Patton introspectively reminisces about his relationship with his spouse, Beatrice; his childhood; and his days on the WWI battlefields.

Costume Design

A Private Function

A Private Function · 1984

A Private Function

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.

Costume Design

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue · 1953

Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue

MovieActionAdventure

After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English

Costume Design