Edith Head

Personal Info

Known For Costume & Makeup

Known Credits 490

Gender Female

Birthday October 28, 1897

Day of Death October 24, 1981 (83 years old)

Place of Birth San Bernadino, California, USA

Also Known As

Edith Claire Posener

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Edith Head

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).

Known For

Costume & Makeup

1982

… Costume Design

1980

… Costume Design

1979

(3 episodes) … Costume Design

1978		Return Engagement … Costume Design
1978		The Big Fix … Costume Design
1978		Little Women (2 episodes) … Costume Design
1978		Olly, Olly, Oxen Free … Costume Design
1978		Sextette … Costume Design

1977		Sunshine Christmas … Costume Design
1977		Sex and the Married Woman … Costume Design
1977		Airport '77 … Costume Design

1976		The Disappearance of Aimee … Costume Design
1976		Amelia Earhart … Costume Design
1976		Family Plot … Costume Design
1976		W.C. Fields and Me … Costume Design
1976		Gable and Lombard … Costume Design

1975		The Man Who Would Be King … Wardrobe Designer
1975		Rooster Cogburn … Costume Design
1975		The Great Waldo Pepper … Costume Design

1974

… Costume Design

1973		The Sting … Costume Design
1973		The Don Is Dead … Costume Design
1973		A Doll's House … Costume Design
1973		Showdown … Costume Design

1972		The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean … Costume Design
1972		Pete 'n' Tillie … Costume Design
1972		Hammersmith Is Out … Costumer
1972		The Screaming Woman … Costume Design

1971

… Costume Design

1970		Myra Breckinridge … Costumer
1970		Colossus: The Forbin Project … Costume Design
1970		Airport … Costume Design
1970		Skullduggery … Costume Design
1970		Story of a Woman … Costume Design

1969		Topaz … Costume Design
1969		Downhill Racer … Costume Design
1969		Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here … Costume Design
1969		Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid … Costume Design
1969		The Lost Man … Costume Design
1969		Eye of the Cat … Costume Design
1969		Winning … Costume Design
1969		Sweet Charity … Costume Design

1968		Hellfighters … Costume Design
1968		House of Cards … Costume Design
1968		In Enemy Country … Costume Design
1968		What's So Bad About Feeling Good? … Costume Design
1968		Blue … Costume Design

1967		Chuka … Costume Design
1967		Easy Come, Easy Go … Costume Design
1967		Barefoot in the Park … Costume Design
1967		The Caper of the Golden Bulls … Costume Design
1967		Hotel … Costume Design
1967		Warning Shot … Costume Design

1966		El Dorado … Costume Design
1966		The Swinger … Costume Design
1966		Penelope … Costumer … Costume Design
1966		This Property Is Condemned … Costume Design
1966		Torn Curtain … Costume Design
1966		Assault on a Queen … Costume Design
1966		The Last of the Secret Agents? … Costume Design
1966		Paradise, Hawaiian Style … Costume Design
1966		Johnny Reno … Costume Design

1965		Boeing, Boeing … Costume Design
1965		Inside Daisy Clover … Costume Design
1965		The Slender Thread … Costume Design
1965		Red Line 7000 … Costume Design
1965		The Family Jewels … Costume Design
1965		The Great Race … Costume Design
1965		Harlow … Costume Design
1965		The Sons of Katie Elder … Costume Design
1965		The Hallelujah Trail … Costume Design
1965		John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! … Costume Design
1965		Love Has Many Faces … Costume Design
1965		Sylvia … Costume Design

1964		The Yellow Rolls-Royce … Costume Design
1964		Sex and the Single Girl … Costume Design
1964		The Disorderly Orderly … Costume Design
1964		36 Hours … Costume Design
1964		Roustabout … Costume Design
1964		Where Love Has Gone … Costume Design
1964		A House Is Not a Home … Costume Design
1964		What a Way to Go! … Costume Design
1964		Marnie … Costume Design
1964		The Patsy … Costume Design
1964		Lady in a Cage … Costume Design
1964		The Lucille Ball Comedy Hour … Costume Design
1964		Man's Favorite Sport? … Costume Design

1963		Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? … Costume Design
1963		Love with the Proper Stranger … Costume Design
1963		Who's Minding the Store? … Costume Design
1963		Fun in Acapulco … Costume Design
1963		A New Kind of Love … Costume Design
1963		Donovan's Reef … Costume Design
1963		Come Blow Your Horn … Costume Design
1963		The Nutty Professor … Costume Design
1963		Hud … Costume Design
1963		My Six Loves … Costume Design
1963		The Birds … Costume Design
1963		Critic's Choice … Costume Design

1962		A Girl Named Tamiko … Costume Design
1962		Who's Got the Action? … Costume Design
1962		Girls! Girls! Girls! … Costume Design
1962		It's Only Money … Costume Design
1962		Hatari! … Costume Design
1962		Escape from Zahrain … Costume Design
1962		The Counterfeit Traitor … Costume Design
1962		The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance … Costume Design
1962		My Geisha … Costume Design

1961		Pocketful of Miracles … Costume Design
1961		The Errand Boy … Costume Design
1961		Blue Hawaii … Costume Design
1961		Summer and Smoke … Costume Design
1961		Too Late Blues … Costume Design
1961		Breakfast at Tiffany's … Costume Supervisor
1961		The Ladies Man … Costume Design
1961		The Pleasure of His Company … Costume Design
1961		On the Double … Costume Design
1961		All in a Night's Work … Costume Design

1960		Pepe … Costume Design
1960		Cinderfella … Costume Design
1960		G.I. Blues … Costume Design
1960		The Facts of Life … Costume Design
1960		The Rat Race … Costume Design
1960		Heller in Pink Tights … Costume Design
1960		Visit to a Small Planet … Costume Design

1959		The Jayhawkers! … Costume Design
1959		Career … Costume Design
1959		A Hole in the Head … Costume Design
1959		That Kind of Woman … Costume Design
1959		But Not for Me … Costume Design
1959		Last Train from Gun Hill … Costume Design
1959		Don't Give Up the Ship … Costume Design
1959		The Five Pennies … Costume Design
1959		The Hangman … Costume Design
1959		Alias Jesse James … Costume Design
1959		The Black Orchid … Costume Design
1959		The Trap … Costume Design

1958		Separate Tables … Costume Design
1958		Houseboat … Costume Design
1958		The Geisha Boy … Costume Design
1958		The Party Crashers … Costume Design
1958		Rock-a-Bye Baby … Costume Design
1958		The Matchmaker … Costume Design
1958		King Creole … Costumer
1958		Vertigo … Costume Design
1958		Hot Spell … Costume Design
1958		Maracaibo … Costume Design
1958		St. Louis Blues … Costume Design
1958		Teacher's Pet … Costume Design

1957		Witness for the Prosecution … Costume Design
1957		Wild Is the Wind … Costume Design
1957		The Sad Sack … Costume Design
1957		The Tin Star … Costume Design
1957		The Devil's Hairpin … Costume Design
1957		Hear Me Good … Costume Design
1957		Loving You … Costume Design
1957		Beau James … Costume Design
1957		The Delicate Delinquent … Costume Design
1957		Gunfight at the O.K. Corral … Costume Design
1957		The Buster Keaton Story … Costume Design
1957		Fear Strikes Out … Costume Design
1957		Funny Face … Costume Design

1956		The Rainmaker … Costume Design
1956		Hollywood or Bust … Costume Design
1956		The Ten Commandments … Costume Design
1956		The Search for Bridey Murphy … Costume Design
1956		Pardners … Costume Design
1956		The Leather Saint … Costume Design
1956		That Certain Feeling … Costume Design
1956		The Mountain … Costume Design
1956		The Man Who Knew Too Much … Costume Design
1956		The Birds and the Bees … Costume Design
1956		The Scarlet Hour … Costume Design

1955		The Court Jester … Costume Design
1955		The Rose Tattoo … Costume Design
1955		Artists and Models … Costume Design
1955		Lucy Gallant … Costume Design
1955		The Desperate Hours … Costume Design
1955		The Trouble with Harry … Costume Design
1955		The Seven Little Foys … Costume Design
1955		The Girl Rush … Costume Design
1955		You're Never Too Young … Costume Design
1955		To Catch a Thief … Costume Design
1955		Strategic Air Command … Costume Design
1955		The Far Horizons … Costume Design
1955		Hell's Island … Wardrobe Supervisor
1955		Run for Cover … Costume Design

1954		3 Ring Circus … Costume Design
1954		The Country Girl … Costume Design
1954		The Bridges at Toko-Ri … Costume Design
1954		White Christmas … Costume Design
1954		Sabrina … Costume Supervisor
1954		About Mrs. Leslie … Costume Design
1954		Rear Window … Costume Design
1954		Living It Up … Costume Design
1954		Secret of the Incas … Costume Design
1954		Elephant Walk … Costume Design
1954		Casanova's Big Night … Costume Design
1954		Knock on Wood … Costume Design
1954		The Naked Jungle … Costume Design
1954		Jivaro … Costume Design
1954		Alaska Seas … Costume Design

1953		Money from Home … Costume Design
1953		Forever Female … Costume Design
1953		Here Come the Girls … Costume Design
1953		Those Redheads from Seattle … Costume Design
1953		Roman Holiday … Costume Design
1953		The War of the Worlds … Costume Design
1953		The Caddy … Costume Design
1953		Arrowhead … Costume Design
1953		Houdini … Costume Design
1953		Pony Express … Costume Design
1953		Sangaree … Costume Design
1953		Scared Stiff … Costume Design
1953		Shane … Costume Design
1953		Road to Bali … Costume Design

1952		Off Limits … Costume Design
1952		Come Back, Little Sheba … Costume Design
1952		Thunder in the East … Costume Design
1952		Just for You … Costume Design
1952		Somebody Loves Me … Costume Design
1952		The Savage … Costume Design
1952		Caribbean … Costume Design
1952		Carrie … Costume Design
1952		Son of Paleface … Costume Design
1952		The Turning Point … Costume Design
1952		Jumping Jacks … Costume Design
1952		Denver and Rio Grande … Costume Design
1952		Stolen Face … Costume Design
1952		The Atomic City … Costume Design
1952		My Son John … Costume Design
1952		Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick … Costume Design
1952		Something to Live For … Costume Design
1952		The Greatest Show on Earth … Costume Design
1952		Sailor Beware … Costume Design

1951		My Favorite Spy … Costume Design
1951		The Stooge … Costume Design
1951		Submarine Command … Costumer
1951		Detective Story … Costume Design
1951		Here Comes the Groom … Costume Design
1951		When Worlds Collide … Costume Design
1951		Darling, How Could You! … Costume Design
1951		Peking Express … Costume Design
1951		Ace in the Hole … Costume Design
1951		A Place in the Sun … Costume Design
1951		That's My Boy … Costume Design
1951		Dear Brat … Costume Design
1951		The Lemon Drop Kid … Costume Design

1950		Mr. Music … Costume Design
1950		Let's Dance … Costume Design
1950		Copper Canyon … Costume Design
1950		All About Eve … Costume Design
1950		Branded … Costume Design
1950		September Affair … Costume Design
1950		Dark City … Costume Design
1950		The Furies … Costume Design
1950		Sunset Boulevard … Costume Design
1950		My Friend Irma Goes West … Costume Design
1950		Riding High … Costume Design
1950		No Man of Her Own … Costume Design
1950		My Foolish Heart … Costume Design

1949		Samson and Delilah … Costume Design
1949		The Great Lover … Costume Design
1949		The File on Thelma Jordon … Costume Design
1949		Beyond the Forest … Costume Design
1949		My Friend Irma … Costume Design
1949		The Heiress … Costume Design
1949		Red, Hot and Blue … Costume Design
1949		Rope of Sand … Costume Design
1949		Manhandled … Costume Design
1949		The Great Gatsby … Costume Design
1949		The Accused … Costume Design

1948		Miss Tatlock's Millions … Costume Design
1948		June Bride … Costume Design
1948		Isn't It Romantic? … Costume Design
1948		Sorry, Wrong Number … Costume Design
1948		Rachel and the Stranger … Costume Design
1948		A Foreign Affair … Costume Design
1948		Night Has a Thousand Eyes … Costume Design
1948		So Evil My Love … Costume Design
1948		Dream Girl … Costume Design
1948		The Emperor Waltz … Costume Design
1948		My Own True Love … Costume Design
1948		The Sainted Sisters … Costume Design
1948		The Big Clock … Costume Design

1947		I Walk Alone … Costume Design
1947		Road to Rio … Costume Design
1947		Saigon … Costume Design
1947		Where There's Life … Costume Design
1947		Wild Harvest … Costume Design
1947		Variety Girl … Costume Design
1947		Cry Wolf … Costume Design
1947		Desert Fury … Costume Design
1947		The Perils of Pauline … Costume Design
1947		The Trouble with Women … Costume Design
1947		Welcome Stranger … Costume Design
1947		Dear Ruth … Costume Design
1947		The Other Love … Costume Design
1947		Blaze of Noon … Costume Design
1947		Ramrod … Costume Design
1947		The Farmer's Daughter … Costume Design
1947		My Favorite Brunette … Costume Design
1947		The Two Mrs. Carrolls … Costume Design
1947		California … Costume Design
1947		The Perfect Marriage … Costume Design

1946		Cross My Heart … Costume Design
1946		Blue Skies … Costume Design
1946		Notorious … Costume Design
1946		The Strange Love of Martha Ivers … Costume Design
1946		The Bride Wore Boots … Costume Design
1946		The Virginian … Costume Design
1946		The Blue Dahlia … Costumer … Costume Design
1946		To Each His Own … Costume Design
1946		Road to Utopia … Costume Design
1946		My Reputation … Costume Design

1945		The Stork Club … Costume Design
1945		The Bells of St. Mary's … Costume Design
1945		Masquerade in Mexico … Costume Design
1945		The Lost Weekend … Costume Design
1945		Hold That Blonde! … Costume Design
1945		Love Letters … Costume Design
1945		Christmas in Connecticut … Costume Design
1945		Incendiary Blonde … Costume Design
1945		Out of This World … Costume Design
1945		The Affairs of Susan … Costume Design
1945		You Came Along … Costume Design
1945		A Medal for Benny … Costume Design
1945		Bring on the Girls … Costume Designer

1944		I'll Be Seeing You … Costume Design
1944		Here Come the Waves … Costume Design
1944		And Now Tomorrow … Costume Design
1944		Our Hearts Were Young and Gay … Costume Design
1944		Rainbow Island … Costume Design
1944		The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek … Costume Design
1944		Hail the Conquering Hero … Costume Design
1944		The Great Moment … Costume Design
1944		I Love a Soldier … Costume Design
1944		Double Indemnity … Costume Design
1944		Tender Comrade … Costume Design
1944		Ministry of Fear … Costume Design
1944		And the Angels Sing … Costume Design
1944		The Uninvited … Costume Design
1944		Lady in the Dark … Costume Design
1944		Standing Room Only … Costume Design
1944		Going My Way … Costume Design

1943		True to Life … Costume Design
1943		Riding High … Costume Design
1943		Flesh and Fantasy … Costume Design
1943		Hostages … Costume Design
1943		Let's Face It … Costume Design
1943		Five Graves to Cairo … Costume Design
1943		Lady of Burlesque … Costume Design
1943		China … Costume Design
1943		No Time for Love … Costume Design
1943		They Got Me Covered … Costume Design
1943		Young and Willing … Costume Design
1943		The Crystal Ball … Costume Design

1942		Lucky Jordan … Costume Design
1942		Road to Morocco … Costume Design
1942		I Married a Witch … Costume Design
1942		The Major and the Minor … Costume Design
1942		The Glass Key … Costume Design
1942		The Gay Sisters … Costume Design
1942		Beyond the Blue Horizon … Costume Design
1942		Are Husbands Necessary? … Costume Design
1942		This Gun for Hire … Costume Design
1942		My Favorite Blonde … Costume Design
1942		Star Spangled Rhythm … Costume Design
1942		The Remarkable Andrew … Costume Design
1942		The Fleet's In … Costume Design
1942		The Lady Has Plans … Costume Design
1942		Holiday Inn … Costume Design

1941		Bahama Passage … Costume Design
1941		Ball of Fire … Costumer … Costume Design
1941		Sullivan's Travels … Costume Design
1941		Skylark … Costume Design
1941		Birth of the Blues … Costume Design
1941		The Great Man's Lady … Costume Design
1941		New York Town … Costume Design
1941		You Belong to Me … Costume Design
1941		Nothing But the Truth … Costume Design
1941		Hold Back the Dawn … Costume Design
1941		Aloma of the South Seas … Costume Design
1941		Here Comes Mr. Jordan … Costume Design
1941		Kiss the Boys Goodbye … Costume Design
1941		Caught in the Draft … Costume Design
1941		West Point Widow … Costume Design
1941		Road to Zanzibar … Costume Design
1941		The Lady Eve … Costume Design
1941		Life with Henry … Costume Design

1940		Love Thy Neighbor … Costume Design
1940		The Mad Doctor … Costume Design
1940		The Texas Rangers Ride Again … Costume Design
1940		Dancing on a Dime … Costume Design
1940		Rhythm on the River … Costume Design
1940		The Great McGinty … Costume Design
1940		Moon Over Burma … Costume Design
1940		Untamed … Costume Design
1940		The Ghost Breakers … Costume Design
1940		Safari … Costume Design
1940		Buck Benny Rides Again … Costume Design
1940		Typhoon … Costume Design
1940		Road to Singapore … Costume Design
1940		Adventure in Diamonds … Costume Design
1940		Remember the Night … Costume Design

1939		The Great Victor Herbert … Costume Design
1939		The Cat and the Canary … Costume Design
1939		Disputed Passage … Costume Design
1939		Honeymoon in Bali … Costume Design
1939		The Star Maker … Costume Design
1939		Beau Geste … Costume Design
1939		The Magnificent Fraud … Costume Design
1939		Man About Town … Costume Design
1939		Invitation to Happiness … Costume Design
1939		The Gracie Allen Murder Case … Costume Design
1939		Man of Conquest … Costume Design
1939		Hotel Imperial … Costume Design
1939		Sudden Money … Costume Design
1939		King of Chinatown … Costume Design
1939		Never Say Die … Costume Design
1939		Cafe Society … Costume Design
1939		Paris Honeymoon … Costume Design
1939		Disbarred … Costume Design

1938		Zaza … Costume Design
1938		Artists and Models Abroad … Costume Design
1938		Thanks for the Memory … Costume Design
1938		If I Were King … Costume Design
1938		Spawn of the North … Costume Design
1938		Give Me a Sailor … Costume Design
1938		The Texans … Costume Design
1938		Men with Wings … Costume Design
1938		Tropic Holiday … Costume Design
1938		Cocoanut Grove … Costume Design
1938		College Swing … Costume Design
1938		Her Jungle Love … Costume Design
1938		Dangerous to Know … Costume Design
1938		Mad About Music … Costume Design
1938		The Big Broadcast of 1938 … Costume Design

1937		Wells Fargo … Costume Design
1937		Thrill of a Lifetime … Costume Design
1937		Blossoms On Broadway … Costume Design
1937		Ebb Tide … Costume Design
1937		This Way Please … Costume Design
1937		Double or Nothing … Costume Design
1937		Sophie Lang Goes West … Costume Design
1937		Souls at Sea … Costume Design
1937		Exclusive … Costume Design
1937		Turn Off the Moon … Costume Design
1937		Waikiki Wedding … Costume Design
1937		Her Husband Lies … Costume Design
1937		John Meade's Woman … Costume Design

1936		College Holiday … Costume Design
1936		Murder with Pictures … Costume Design
1936		The Texas Rangers … Costume Design
1936		Rhythm on the Range … Costume Design
1936		The Return of Sophie Lang … Costume Design
1936		Poppy … Costume Design
1936		Early to Bed … Costume Design
1936		Till We Meet Again … Costume Design

1934		She Loves Me Not … Costume Design
1934		Death Takes a Holiday … Costume Design

1933		Cradle Song … Costume Design
1933		She Done Him Wrong … Costume Design

1932

… Costume Design

1931

… Costume Design

1930

… Costume Design

1929

… Costume Design

1928		Ladies of the Mob … Costume Design
1928		The Legion of the Condemned … Costume Design

1927		Underworld … Assistant Costume Designer
1927		Wings … Costume Design

1926

… Costume Design

1925

… Costume Design

1924

… Costume Design

Acting

2016

as Self (archive footage)

2014

as Self (archive footage)

2002

as Self (archive footage)

1981

as Self

1974		Dinah! (2 episodes) as Self
1974		Flick Flack (1 episode)

1971		Columbo (1 episode) as Edith Head
1971		V.I.P. Schaukel (1 episode) as Self

1969

as Host

1966

as Edith Head

1962

(1 episode) as Self

1961

as Dress Designer (uncredited)

1957

(1 episode) as Self

1955

as Edith Head

1950

as Self (uncredited)

1948

(1 episode) as Self

1935

as Edith Head (uncredited)

Art

1949

… Production Design

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Edith Head

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Known For

Costume & Makeup

Acting

Art

Global

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On all edit pages

On discussion pages

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