Phyllis Dalton, a British costume designer whose incredible attention to detail has gained his Oscars for “Doctor Zhivago” and “Henry V” and welcomes her for his emotional and surprising costumes in “Lawrence of Arabia”, died on January 9th In his home in Somerste, England. He was 99 years old.
Death was confirmed by his stepson, James Barton.
Mrs. Dalton’s acoustic eye was more evident in vintage dramas and historical epopes. He was known for his subtlety, crawling clothes that blended perfectly in the era of each film.
“Anyone can make an intelligent dress,” he said in a brochure that was distributed during a British Academy of cinematographic and television arts of 2012. “It is much more difficult to make people of the past who wear real ordinary clothes.”
Phyllis Margaret Dalton was born on October 16, 1925 in Chiswick, a suburb of London, from William John Tysoe Dalton, who worked for the Great Western Railway, and Elizabeth Marion (Mason) Dalton, who worked in a bank. Phyllis began studying the design of costumes at Ahinging Arte at 13 years of age and later became a code switch in the female royal naval service at the Bletchley Park structure, a role that once claimed to have considered “incredibly boring”.
One of the first periods of Mrs. Dalton in the wardrobe was on the 1950 “Eye Witness” crime melodrama. He refined his skills by working on the costumes for the remake of “The Man Wne to too many” by Alfred Hitchcock of 1956, “Island in the Sun” by Robert Rossen and “Our Man in Havana” by Carol Reed (1959). In the 1960s, he completed two of his most renowned designs three years later, wearing entire armies for “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962) and “Doctor Zhivago” (1965).
After 50 years of experience on more than 40 films, including “The Princess Bride” (1987), he gained his latest merit on the adaptation of “Much Adow Nothing” by Kenneth Branagh in 1993.
Here is a look back to some of his most famous costumes:
“Lawrence of Arabia”, 1962
Although Mrs. Dalton did not win an Oscar for “Lawrence of Arabia”, the guise of wool and the golden brocade who created for you Lawrence, represented by Peter O’Toole (left, with Michel Ray) history. While the character loses his healthcare, his white dressing gown begins to dry, becoming similar and dirty threads.
“Henry V”, 1989
Mrs. Dalton was meticulous; His intricate process for aging costumes in “Henry V” involved steel, lacquer for hair and fat.
“You have to think what color would really be the mud, to do it in the place where it happened,” he said. “You have to combine your soldiers with mud – or your Arabs to the desert, as in” Lawrence of Arabia “. The deserts are not all yellow. I didn’t know it until I went to Jordan.”
“Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue”, 1953
On “Rob Roy”, who told the escapades in the war of a Scottish highlander, the Mrs. Dalton, view above that regulates the Kilt of Richard Todd, used “all those plaids with their delicious plant dyes” to promote his experiments With color and tone, he said in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph in 1990.
“The Princess Bride”, 1987
Although Mrs. Dalton initially thought that the script of “The Princess Bride” was “a load of garbage”, the film – played by Cary Elwes as the agricultural factor for Robin Wright’s princess – endured as a favor of worship It is a fixed point of childhood.
During the filming, Mr. Elwes broke her finger of the foot, but Mrs. Dalton, always enterprising, modeled a special shoe to protect her foot as she still dressed in the dress and in the black pirate mask he wore to save the princess from its kidnappers.
In addition to her stepson, Mrs. Dalton survived her second husband, Christopher Synge Barton; His brother John Dalton; And a nephew. His first marriage, with the theater producer James Whiteley, ended with divorce in 1976.