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Edith Head

Edith Head

Costume & Make-up1897San Bernadino, California, USA

Biography

Edith Head (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, starting with The Heiress (1949) and ending with The Sting (1973).

Acting History

2016
The Women Who Run Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Edith Head: The Paramount Years
as Self (archive footage)
1982
1981
Edith Head
as Self
1978
Sextette
Costume Design
The Big Fix
Costume Design
Olly Olly Oxen Free
Costume Design
Return Engagement
Costume Design
Little Women
TVCostume Design2 eps
1977
Airport '77
Costume Design
Sunshine Christmas
Costume Design
1976
Dinah!
TVas Self2 eps
Family Plot
Costume Design
W.C. Fields and Me
Costume Design
Gable and Lombard
Costume Design
Amelia Earhart
Costume Design
1975
V.I.P. Schaukel
TVas Self1 eps
Rooster Cogburn
Costume Design
The Man Who Would Be King
Wardrobe Designer
1974
Airport 1975
Costume Design
1973
Columbo
TVas Edith Head1 eps
A Doll's House
Costume Design
The Don Is Dead
Costume Design
The Sting
Costume Design
Showdown
Costume Design
1971
1970
Airport
Costume Design
Skullduggery
Costume Design
Story of a Woman
Costume Design
1968
House of Cards
Costume Design
In Enemy Country
Costume Design
Hellfighters
Costume Design
Blue
Costume Design
1967
Barefoot in the Park
Costume Design
Chuka
Costume Design
Easy Come, Easy Go
Costume Design
Hotel
Costume Design
Warning Shot
Costume Design
1966
The Oscar
as Edith Head
Inside Daisy Clover
Costume Design
Johnny Reno
Costume Design
The Swinger
Costume Design
Torn Curtain
Costume Design
Penelope
Costume Design
Penelope
Costumer
El Dorado
Costume Design
The Oscar
Costume Design
Assault on a Queen
Costume Design
1965
Love Has Many Faces
Costume Design
Boeing, Boeing
Costume Design
The Slender Thread
Costume Design
The Hallelujah Trail
Costume Design
Red Line 7000
Costume Design
Harlow
Costume Design
Sylvia
Costume Design
The Family Jewels
Costume Design
The Great Race
Costume Design
1964
Roustabout
Costume Design
The Patsy
Costume Design
36 Hours
Costume Design
Man's Favorite Sport?
Costume Design
Where Love Has Gone
Costume Design
Lady in a Cage
Costume Design
What a Way to Go!
Costume Design
A House Is Not a Home
Costume Design
Marnie
Costume Design
1963
Fun in Acapulco
Costume Design
Donovan's Reef
Costume Design
Critic's Choice
Costume Design
My Six Loves
Costume Design
Hud
Costume Design
The Nutty Professor
Costume Design
A New Kind of Love
Costume Design
The Birds
Costume Design
Come Blow Your Horn
Costume Design
1962
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TVas Self1 eps
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Costume Design
It's Only Money
Costume Design
My Geisha
Costume Design
Who's Got the Action?
Costume Design
Escape from Zahrain
Costume Design
A Girl Named Tamiko
Costume Design
Hatari!
Costume Design
1961
The Pleasure of His Company
as Dress Designer (uncredited)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Costume Supervisor
The Ladies Man
Costume Design
Pocketful of Miracles
Costume Design
On the Double
Costume Design
Too Late Blues
Costume Design
Summer and Smoke
Costume Design
The Errand Boy
Costume Design
All in a Night's Work
Costume Design
Blue Hawaii
Costume Design
1960
Heller in Pink Tights
Costume Design
G.I. Blues
Costume Design
Cinderfella
Costume Design
The Rat Race
Costume Design
The Facts of Life
Costume Design
Pepe
Costume Design
1959
The Hangman
Costume Design
A Hole in the Head
Costume Design
The Jayhawkers!
Costume Design
The Black Orchid
Costume Design
The Trap
Costume Design
But Not for Me
Costume Design
Career
Costume Design
The Five Pennies
Costume Design
That Kind of Woman
Costume Design
Alias Jesse James
Costume Design
1958
The Party Crashers
Costume Design
Houseboat
Costume Design
St. Louis Blues
Costume Design
The Geisha Boy
Costume Design
Teacher's Pet
Costume Design
The Matchmaker
Costume Design
Hot Spell
Costume Design
Maracaibo
Costume Design
Separate Tables
Costume Design
Rock-a-Bye Baby
Costume Design
Vertigo
Costume Design
King Creole
Costumer
1957
The Tin Star
Costume Design
Loving You
Costume Design
Beau James
Costume Design
Wild Is the Wind
Costume Design
The Sad Sack
Costume Design
Fear Strikes Out
Costume Design
Funny Face
Costume Design
Hear Me Good
Costume Design
The Devil's Hairpin
Costume Design
1956
Pardners
Costume Design
The Ten Commandments
Costume Design
The Rainmaker
Costume Design
The Scarlet Hour
Costume Design
The Mountain
Costume Design
Hollywood or Bust
Costume Design
The Leather Saint
Costume Design
That Certain Feeling
Costume Design
1955
Lucy Gallant
as Edith Head
The Court Jester
Costume Design
Artists and Models
Costume Design
Hell's Island
Wardrobe Supervisor
The Far Horizons
Costume Design
Strategic Air Command
Costume Design
Lucy Gallant
Costume Design
The Seven Little Foys
Costume Design
Run for Cover
Costume Design
The Rose Tattoo
Costume Design
To Catch a Thief
Costume Design
The Girl Rush
Costume Design
The Desperate Hours
Costume Design
1954
3 Ring Circus
Costume Design
Knock on Wood
Costume Design
Casanova's Big Night
Costume Design
About Mrs. Leslie
Costume Design
Secret of the Incas
Costume Design
Living It Up
Costume Design
The Country Girl
Costume Design
Jivaro
Costume Design
Alaska Seas
Costume Design
The Naked Jungle
Costume Design
Rear Window
Costume Design
White Christmas
Costume Design
Sabrina
Costume Supervisor
Elephant Walk
Costume Design
1953
Money from Home
Costume Design
The Caddy
Costume Design
Sangaree
Costume Design
Scared Stiff
Costume Design
Shane
Costume Design
Pony Express
Costume Design
Arrowhead
Costume Design
Here Come the Girls
Costume Design
Roman Holiday
Costume Design
Forever Female
Costume Design
The War of the Worlds
Costume Design
Houdini
Costume Design
1952
Son of Paleface
Costume Design
Road to Bali
Costume Design
Caribbean
Costume Design
Just for You
Costume Design
Sailor Beware
Costume Design
Jumping Jacks
Costume Design
The Turning Point
Costume Design
The Atomic City
Costume Design
Off Limits
Costume Design
The Savage
Costume Design
My Son John
Costume Design
Stolen Face
Costume Design
Something to Live For
Costume Design
Denver and Rio Grande
Costume Design
Thunder in the East
Costume Design
Somebody Loves Me
Costume Design
Carrie
Costume Design
1951
Here Comes the Groom
Costume Design
The Lemon Drop Kid
Costume Design
That's My Boy
Costume Design
Dear Brat
Costume Design
The Stooge
Costume Design
A Place in the Sun
Costume Design
Peking Express
Costume Design
My Favorite Spy
Costume Design
The Big Carnival
Costume Design
Detective Story
Costume Design
When Worlds Collide
Costume Design
1950
The Costume Designer
as Self (uncredited)
Sunset Boulevard
Costume Design
No Man of Her Own
Costume Design
All About Eve
Costume Design
Riding High
Costume Design
Branded
Costume Design
Copper Canyon
Costume Design
Dark City
Costume Design
September Affair
Costume Design
The Furies
Costume Design
Mr. Music
Costume Design
Let's Dance
Costume Design
My Foolish Heart
Costume Design
1949
Samson and Delilah
Costume Design
The Heiress
Costume Design
The Accused
Costume Design
Rope of Sand
Costume Design
Manhandled
Costume Design
The Great Lover
Costume Design
The Great Gatsby
Costume Design
Beyond the Forest
Costume Design
My Friend Irma
Costume Design
Red, Hot and Blue
Costume Design
1948
The Emperor Waltz
Costume Design
Sorry, Wrong Number
Costume Design
So Evil My Love
Costume Design
Dream Girl
Costume Design
A Foreign Affair
Costume Design
The Big Clock
Costume Design
My Own True Love
Costume Design
June Bride
Costume Design
Isn't It Romantic?
Costume Design
The Sainted Sisters
Costume Design
1947
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
Costume Design
Road to Rio
Costume Design
Dear Ruth
Costume Design
The Perfect Marriage
Costume Design
Ramrod
Costume Design
Blaze of Noon
Costume Design
Wild Harvest
Costume Design
Where There's Life
Costume Design
California
Costume Design
Cry Wolf
Costume Design
My Favorite Brunette
Costume Design
Saigon
Costume Design
I Walk Alone
Costume Design
Variety Girl
Costume Design
Welcome Stranger
Costume Design
The Other Love
Costume Design
The Farmer's Daughter
Costume Design
The Perils of Pauline
Costume Design
Desert Fury
Costume Design
1946
Road to Utopia
Costume Design
The Virginian
Costume Design
To Each His Own
Costume Design
Blue Skies
Costume Design
The Blue Dahlia
Costume Design
Notorious
Costume Design
My Reputation
Costume Design
The Bride Wore Boots
Costume Design
Cross My Heart
Costume Design
1945
The Lost Weekend
Costume Design
The Affairs of Susan
Costume Design
You Came Along
Costume Design
Masquerade in Mexico
Costume Design
A Medal for Benny
Costume Design
Incendiary Blonde
Costume Design
Love Letters
Costume Design
The Stork Club
Costume Design
Out of This World
Costume Design
Hold That Blonde!
Costume Design
Bring on the Girls
Costume Design
1944
I'll Be Seeing You
Costume Design
The Uninvited
Costume Design
Going My Way
Costume Design
Lady in the Dark
Costume Design
Rainbow Island
Costume Design
Ministry of Fear
Costume Design
And Now Tomorrow
Costume Design
Tender Comrade
Costume Design
Double Indemnity
Costume Design
The Great Moment
Costume Design
Standing Room Only
Costume Design
I Love a Soldier
Costume Design
And the Angels Sing
Costume Design
Here Come the Waves
Costume Design
1943
Lady of Burlesque
Costume Design
No Time for Love
Costume Design
China
Costume Design
The Crystal Ball
Costume Design
Riding High
Costume Design
Five Graves to Cairo
Costume Design
Hostages
Costume Design
Young and Willing
Costume Design
They Got Me Covered
Costume Design
Flesh and Fantasy
Costume Design
Let's Face It
Costume Design
True to Life
Costume Design
1942
Road to Morocco
Costume Design
This Gun for Hire
Costume Design
The Fleet's In
Costume Design
The Glass Key
Costume Design
Star Spangled Rhythm
Costume Design
Lucky Jordan
Costume Design
Holiday Inn
Costume Design
I Married a Witch
Costume Design
The Gay Sisters
Costume Design
The Lady Has Plans
Costume Design
The Remarkable Andrew
Costume Design
My Favorite Blonde
Costume Design
1941
Hold Back the Dawn
Costume Design
Birth of the Blues
Costume Design
Road to Zanzibar
Costume Design
Sullivan's Travels
Costume Design
Skylark
Costume Design
Nothing But the Truth
Costume Design
Life with Henry
Costume Design
The Lady Eve
Costume Design
Bahama Passage
Costume Design
The Great Man's Lady
Costume Design
Caught in the Draft
Costume Design
New York Town
Costume Design
You Belong to Me
Costume Design
Kiss the Boys Goodbye
Costume Design
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Costume Design
West Point Widow
Costume Design
Ball of Fire
Costume Design
Ball of Fire
Costumer
1940
Remember the Night
Costume Design
The Ghost Breakers
Costume Design
The Farmer's Daughter
Costume Design
The Mad Doctor
Costume Design
Road to Singapore
Costume Design
Typhoon
Costume Design
Safari
Costume Design
The Great McGinty
Costume Design
Rhythm on the River
Costume Design
Adventure in Diamonds
Costume Design
Untamed
Costume Design
Love Thy Neighbor
Costume Design
Moon Over Burma
Costume Design
Dancing on a Dime
Costume Design
1939
Beau Geste
Costume Design
Honeymoon in Bali
Costume Design
Never Say Die
Costume Design
The Magnificent Fraud
Costume Design
Man of Conquest
Costume Design
King of Chinatown
Costume Design
Paris Honeymoon
Costume Design
Sudden Money
Costume Design
Hotel Imperial
Costume Design
Disputed Passage
Costume Design
Disbarred
Costume Design
Man About Town
Costume Design
The Star Maker
Costume Design
Cafe Society
Costume Design
1938
The Texans
Costume Design
College Swing
Costume Design
Give Me a Sailor
Costume Design
Dangerous to Know
Costume Design
Mad About Music
Costume Design
Zaza
Costume Design
If I Were King
Costume Design
Spawn of the North
Costume Design
Tropic Holiday
Costume Design
Men with Wings
Costume Design
Her Jungle Love
Costume Design
Cocoanut Grove
Costume Design
Thanks for the Memory
Costume Design
1937
Souls at Sea
Costume Design
This Way Please
Costume Design
Exclusive
Costume Design
Waikiki Wedding
Costume Design
Double or Nothing
Costume Design
Wells Fargo
Costume Design
Sophie Lang Goes West
Costume Design
Ebb Tide
Costume Design
Blossoms On Broadway
Costume Design
Thrill of a Lifetime
Costume Design
Turn Off the Moon
Costume Design
John Meade's Woman
Costume Design
Her Husband Lies
Costume Design
1936
Poppy
Costume Design
The Texas Rangers
Costume Design
Rhythm on the Range
Costume Design
Murder with Pictures
Costume Design
Till We Meet Again
Costume Design
Early to Bed
Costume Design
College Holiday
Costume Design
1935
Hollywood Extra Girl
as Edith Head (uncredited)
1934
Death Takes a Holiday
Costume Design
She Loves Me Not
Costume Design
1933
She Done Him Wrong
Costume Design
Cradle Song
Costume Design
1932
Love Me Tonight
Costume Design
1931
The Lawyer's Secret
Costume Design
1930
Only the Brave
Costume Design
1929
1928
1926
Mantrap
Costume Design
1925
Are Parents People?
Costume Design
1924
Peter Pan
Costume Design

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Personal Info

Known For
Costume & Make-up
Gender
Female
Birthday
10/28/1897
Day of Death
10/24/1981
Place of Birth
San Bernadino, California, USA
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