Edith Head

Personal Info

Known For Costume & Make-Up

Gender Female

Birthday 1897-10-28

Deathday 1981-10-24 (83 years old)

Place of Birth San Bernadino, California, USA

Also Known As Edith Claire Posener

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 & Make-Up

1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

as Costume Design

1979
Women in White

as Costume Design

1978
The Big Fix

as Costume Design

1978
Olly, Olly, Oxen Free

as Costume Design

1978
Sextette

as Costume Design

1978
Return Engagement

as Costume Design

1978
Little Women

as Costume Design

1977
Sex and the Married Woman

as Costume Design

1977
Airport '77

as Costume Design

1977
Sunshine Christmas

as Costume Design

1976
Family Plot

as Costume Design

1976
Amelia Earhart

as Costume Design

1976
Gable and Lombard

as Costume Design

1976
W.C. Fields and Me

as Costume Design

1976
The Disappearance of Aimee

as Costume Design

1975
Rooster Cogburn

as Costume Design

1975
The Man Who Would Be King

as Wardrobe Designer

1975
The Great Waldo Pepper

as Costume Design

1974
Airport 1975

as Costume Design

1973
The Sting

as Costume Design

1973
A Doll's House

as Costume Design

1973
The Don Is Dead

as Costume Design

1973
Showdown

as Costume Design

1972
The Screaming Woman

as Costume Design

1972
Hammersmith Is Out

as Costumer

1972
Pete 'n' Tillie

as Costume Design

1971
Sometimes a Great Notion

as Costume Design

1970
Story of a Woman

as Costume Design

1970
Myra Breckinridge

as Costumer

1970
1970
Skullduggery

as Costume Design

1970
Airport

as Costume Design

1969
1969
Sweet Charity

as Costume Design

1969
Topaz

as Costume Design

1969
The Lost Man

as Costume Design

1969
Eye of the Cat

as Costume Design

1969
Winning

as Costume Design

1969
Downhill Racer

as Costume Design

1968
House of Cards

as Costume Design

1968
1968
In Enemy Country

as Costume Design

1968
Blue

as Costume Design

1968
Hellfighters

as Costume Design

1967
Easy Come, Easy Go

as Costume Design

1967
Warning Shot

as Costume Design

1967
Chuka

as Costume Design

1967
1967
Hotel

as Costume Design

1967
Barefoot in the Park

as Costume Design

1966
1966
The Swinger

as Costume Design

1966
Assault on a Queen

as Costume Design

1966
This Property Is Condemned

as Costume Design

1966
El Dorado

as Costume Design

1966
Johnny Reno

as Costume Design

1966
Penelope

as Costume Design

1966
Penelope

as Costumer

1966
Torn Curtain

as Costume Design

1966
Paradise, Hawaiian Style

as Costume Design

1965
The Great Race

as Costume Design

1965
Inside Daisy Clover

as Costume Design

1965
Love Has Many Faces

as Costume Design

1965
The Hallelujah Trail

as Costume Design

1965
Boeing, Boeing

as Costume Design

1965
Sylvia

as Costume Design

1965
The Family Jewels

as Costume Design

1965
1965
The Slender Thread

as Costume Design

1965
The Sons of Katie Elder

as Costume Design

1965
Harlow

as Costume Design

1965
Red Line 7000

as Costume Design

1964
1964
The Yellow Rolls-Royce

as Costume Design

1964
Marnie

as Costume Design

1964
What a Way to Go!

as Costume Design

1964
Roustabout

as Costume Design

1964
A House Is Not a Home

as Costume Design

1964
Sex and the Single Girl

as Costume Design

1964
Lady in a Cage

as Costume Design

1964
Where Love Has Gone

as Costume Design

1964
36 Hours

as Costume Design

1964
Man's Favorite Sport?

as Costume Design

1964
The Disorderly Orderly

as Costume Design

1964
The Patsy

as Costume Design

1963
The Birds

as Costume Design

1963
Come Blow Your Horn

as Costume Design

1963
Critic's Choice

as Costume Design

1963
Donovan's Reef

as Costume Design

1963
Fun in Acapulco

as Costume Design

1963
A New Kind of Love

as Costume Design

1963
Hud

as Costume Design

1963
The Nutty Professor

as Costume Design

1963
1963
My Six Loves

as Costume Design

1963
1963
Who's Minding the Store?

as Costume Design

1962
Who's Got the Action?

as Costume Design

1962
1962
My Geisha

as Costume Design

1962
The Counterfeit Traitor

as Costume Design

1962
A Girl Named Tamiko

as Costume Design

1962
Hatari!

as Costume Design

1962
Escape from Zahrain

as Costume Design

1962
It's Only Money

as Costume Design

1962
Girls! Girls! Girls!

as Costume Design

1961
Breakfast at Tiffany's

as Costume Supervisor

1961
The Pleasure of His Company

as Costume Design

1961
Pocketful of Miracles

as Costume Design

1961
Blue Hawaii

as Costume Design

1961
Summer and Smoke

as Costume Design

1961
Too Late Blues

as Costume Design

1961
The Ladies Man

as Costume Design

1961
The Errand Boy

as Costume Design

1961
On the Double

as Costume Design

1961
All in a Night's Work

as Costume Design

1960
G.I. Blues

as Costume Design

1960
The Rat Race

as Costume Design

1960
Cinderfella

as Costume Design

1960
The Facts of Life

as Costume Design

1960
Heller in Pink Tights

as Costume Design

1960
Pepe

as Costume Design

1960
Visit to a Small Planet

as Costume Design

1959
A Hole in the Head

as Costume Design

1959
Alias Jesse James

as Costume Design

1959
Career

as Costume Design

1959
Last Train from Gun Hill

as Costume Design

1959
That Kind of Woman

as Costume Design

1959
The Jayhawkers!

as Costume Design

1959
The Trap

as Costume Design

1959
But Not for Me

as Costume Design

1959
The Hangman

as Costume Design

1959
The Five Pennies

as Costume Design

1959
Don't Give Up the Ship

as Costume Design

1959
The Black Orchid

as Costume Design

1958
Vertigo

as Costume Design

1958
Houseboat

as Costume Design

1958
St. Louis Blues

as Costume Design

1958
The Party Crashers

as Costume Design

1958
Teacher's Pet

as Costume Design

1958
Maracaibo

as Costume Design

1958
The Matchmaker

as Costume Design

1958
Hot Spell

as Costume Design

1958
Separate Tables

as Costume Design

1958
King Creole

as Costumer

1958
Rock-a-Bye Baby

as Costume Design

1958
The Geisha Boy

as Costume Design

1957
Hear Me Good

as Costume Design

1957
Funny Face

as Costume Design

1957
Beau James

as Costume Design

1957
The Devil's Hairpin

as Costume Design

1957
Loving You

as Costume Design

1957
Witness for the Prosecution

as Costume Design

1957
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

as Costume Design

1957
Wild Is the Wind

as Costume Design

1957
The Sad Sack

as Costume Design

1957
Fear Strikes Out

as Costume Design

1957
The Delicate Delinquent

as Costume Design

1957
The Buster Keaton Story

as Costume Design

1957
The Tin Star

as Costume Design

1956
The Rainmaker

as Costume Design

1956
The Birds and the Bees

as Costume Design

1956
The Scarlet Hour

as Costume Design

1956
The Mountain

as Costume Design

1956
The Man Who Knew Too Much

as Costume Design

1956
1956
The Ten Commandments

as Costume Design

1956
The Leather Saint

as Costume Design

1956
Hollywood or Bust

as Costume Design

1956
Pardners

as Costume Design

1956
That Certain Feeling

as Costume Design

1955
To Catch a Thief

as Costume Design

1955
The Far Horizons

as Costume Design

1955
The Trouble with Harry

as Costume Design

1955
The Court Jester

as Costume Design

1955
The Seven Little Foys

as Costume Design

1955
Hell's Island

as Wardrobe Supervisor

1955
The Girl Rush

as Costume Design

1955
The Rose Tattoo

as Costume Design

1955
The Desperate Hours

as Costume Design

1955
Run for Cover

as Costume Design

1955
Strategic Air Command

as Costume Design

1955
Artists and Models

as Costume Design

1955
Lucy Gallant

as Costume Design

1955
You're Never Too Young

as Costume Design

1954
Rear Window

as Costume Design

1954
Sabrina

as Costume Supervisor

1954
Knock on Wood

as Costume Design

1954
Casanova's Big Night

as Costume Design

1954
Elephant Walk

as Costume Design

1954
Alaska Seas

as Costume Design

1954
White Christmas

as Costume Design

1954
About Mrs. Leslie

as Costume Design

1954
Jivaro

as Costume Design

1954
The Country Girl

as Costume Design

1954
The Bridges at Toko-Ri

as Costume Design

1954
The Naked Jungle

as Costume Design

1954
3 Ring Circus

as Costume Design

1954
Living It Up

as Costume Design

1954
Secret of the Incas

as Costume Design

1953
Roman Holiday

as Costume Design

1953
Arrowhead

as Costume Design

1953
Road to Bali

as Costume Design

1953
The War of the Worlds

as Costume Design

1953
Pony Express

as Costume Design

1953
Shane

as Costume Design

1953
Houdini

as Costume Design

1953
Forever Female

as Costume Design

1953
Those Redheads from Seattle

as Costume Design

1953
Here Come the Girls

as Costume Design

1953
The Caddy

as Costume Design

1953
Sangaree

as Costume Design

1953
Money from Home

as Costume Design

1953
Scared Stiff

as Costume Design

1952
Caribbean

as Costume Design

1952
Just for You

as Costume Design

1952
Carrie

as Costume Design

1952
Come Back, Little Sheba

as Costume Design

1952
Something to Live For

as Costume Design

1952
1952
Thunder in the East

as Costume Design

1952
Jumping Jacks

as Costume Design

1952
Denver and Rio Grande

as Costume Design

1952
The Savage

as Costume Design

1952
The Turning Point

as Costume Design

1952
Son of Paleface

as Costume Design

1952
The Atomic City

as Costume Design

1952
Sailor Beware

as Costume Design

1952
Off Limits

as Costume Design

1952
Somebody Loves Me

as Costume Design

1952
My Son John

as Costume Design

1952
Stolen Face

as Costume Design

1952
The Greatest Show on Earth

as Costume Design

1951
Submarine Command

as Costumer

1951
Ace in the Hole

as Costume Design

1951
A Place in the Sun

as Costume Design

1951
Darling, How Could You!

as Costume Design

1951
Detective Story

as Costume Design

1951
Peking Express

as Costume Design

1951
That's My Boy

as Costume Design

1951
The Lemon Drop Kid

as Costume Design

1951
My Favorite Spy

as Costume Design

1951
Here Comes the Groom

as Costume Design

1951
Dear Brat

as Costume Design

1951
When Worlds Collide

as Costume Design

1951
The Stooge

as Costume Design

1950
Sunset Boulevard

as Costume Design

1950
All About Eve

as Costume Design

1950
Mr. Music

as Costume Design

1950
Let's Dance

as Costume Design

1950
Riding High

as Costume Design

1950
My Foolish Heart

as Costume Design

1950
The Furies

as Costume Design

1950
September Affair

as Costume Design

1950
Branded

as Costume Design

1950
Copper Canyon

as Costume Design

1950
My Friend Irma Goes West

as Costume Design

1950
No Man of Her Own

as Costume Design

1950
Dark City

as Costume Design

1949
The Heiress

as Costume Design

1949
Manhandled

as Costume Design

1949
Samson and Delilah

as Costume Design

1949
Red, Hot and Blue

as Costume Design

1949
Beyond the Forest

as Costume Design

1949
The Great Lover

as Costume Design

1949
My Friend Irma

as Costume Design

1949
The Great Gatsby

as Costume Design

1949
The Accused

as Costume Design

1949
Rope of Sand

as Costume Design

1949
The File on Thelma Jordon

as Costume Design

1948
My Own True Love

as Costume Design

1948
Dream Girl

as Costume Design

1948
The Emperor Waltz

as Costume Design

1948
Night Has a Thousand Eyes

as Costume Design

1948
The Sainted Sisters

as Costume Design

1948
Isn't It Romantic?

as Costume Design

1948
Sorry, Wrong Number

as Costume Design

1948
So Evil My Love

as Costume Design

1948
Rachel and the Stranger

as Costume Design

1948
A Foreign Affair

as Costume Design

1948
June Bride

as Costume Design

1948
Miss Tatlock's Millions

as Costume Design

1948
The Big Clock

as Costume Design

1947
Road to Rio

as Costume Design

1947
Saigon

as Costume Design

1947
The Farmer's Daughter

as Costume Design

1947
Desert Fury

as Costume Design

1947
The Other Love

as Costume Design

1947
The Perils of Pauline

as Costume Design

1947
Wild Harvest

as Costume Design

1947
Blaze of Noon

as Costume Design

1947
The Trouble with Women

as Costume Design

1947
My Favorite Brunette

as Costume Design

1947
Dear Ruth

as Costume Design

1947
The Perfect Marriage

as Costume Design

1947
Ramrod

as Costume Design

1947
Welcome Stranger

as Costume Design

1947
Variety Girl

as Costume Design

1947
Where There's Life

as Costume Design

1947
I Walk Alone

as Costume Design

1947
Cry Wolf

as Costume Design

1947
California

as Costume Design

1947
The Two Mrs. Carrolls

as Costume Design

1946
Notorious

as Costume Design

1946
Road to Utopia

as Costume Design

1946
1946
The Virginian

as Costume Design

1946
To Each His Own

as Costume Design

1946
Blue Skies

as Costume Design

1946
Cross My Heart

as Costume Design

1946
The Bride Wore Boots

as Costume Design

1946
The Blue Dahlia

as Costume Design

1946
The Blue Dahlia

as Costumer

1946
My Reputation

as Costume Design

1945
The Bells of St. Mary's

as Costume Design

1945
Christmas in Connecticut

as Costume Design

1945
The Lost Weekend

as Costume Design

1945
Love Letters

as Costume Design

1945
The Stork Club

as Costume Design

1945
Incendiary Blonde

as Costume Design

1945
A Medal for Benny

as Costume Design

1945
The Affairs of Susan

as Costume Design

1945
You Came Along

as Costume Design

1945
Masquerade in Mexico

as Costume Design

1945
Out of This World

as Costume Design

1945
Hold That Blonde!

as Costume Design

1945
Bring on the Girls

as Costume Designer

1944
Double Indemnity

as Costume Design

1944
Ministry of Fear

as Costume Design

1944
I'll Be Seeing You

as Costume Design

1944
The Great Moment

as Costume Design

1944
Hail the Conquering Hero

as Costume Design

1944
Here Come the Waves

as Costume Design

1944
The Uninvited

as Costume Design

1944
Going My Way

as Costume Design

1944
Tender Comrade

as Costume Design

1944
Lady in the Dark

as Costume Design

1944
And Now Tomorrow

as Costume Design

1944
Standing Room Only

as Costume Design

1944
Rainbow Island

as Costume Design

1944
1944
I Love a Soldier

as Costume Design

1944
And the Angels Sing

as Costume Design

1943
No Time for Love

as Costume Design

1943
Five Graves to Cairo

as Costume Design

1943
1943
Lady of Burlesque

as Costume Design

1943
Young and Willing

as Costume Design

1943
Flesh and Fantasy

as Costume Design

1943
China

as Costume Design

1943
They Got Me Covered

as Costume Design

1943
Let's Face It

as Costume Design

1943
The Crystal Ball

as Costume Design

1943
Riding High

as Costume Design

1943
True to Life

as Costume Design

1943
Hostages

as Costume Design

1942
Road to Morocco

as Costume Design

1942
I Married a Witch

as Costume Design

1942
Holiday Inn

as Costume Design

1942
This Gun for Hire

as Costume Design

1942
The Glass Key

as Costume Design

1942
The Major and the Minor

as Costume Design

1942
The Fleet's In

as Costume Design

1942
The Gay Sisters

as Costume Design

1942
The Remarkable Andrew

as Costume Design

1942
The Lady Has Plans

as Costume Design

1942
My Favorite Blonde

as Costume Design

1942
The Great Man's Lady

as Costume Design

1942
Beyond the Blue Horizon

as Costume Design

1942
Star Spangled Rhythm

as Costume Design

1942
Lucky Jordan

as Costume Design

1942
Are Husbands Necessary?

as Costume Design

1941
The Lady Eve

as Costume Design

1941
Road to Zanzibar

as Costume Design

1941
Ball of Fire

as Costume Design

1941
Here Comes Mr. Jordan

as Costume Design

1941
Sullivan's Travels

as Costume Design

1941
Hold Back the Dawn

as Costume Design

1941
New York Town

as Costume Design

1941
Birth of the Blues

as Costume Design

1941
Bahama Passage

as Costume Design

1941
You Belong to Me

as Costume Design

1941
Skylark

as Costume Design

1941
Nothing But the Truth

as Costume Design

1941
Caught in the Draft

as Costume Design

1941
Aloma of the South Seas

as Costume Design

1941
Kiss the Boys Goodbye

as Costume Design

1941
Life with Henry

as Costume Design

1941
Ball of Fire

as Costumer

1941
West Point Widow

as Costume Design

1940
Road to Singapore

as Costume Design

1940
The Mad Doctor

as Costume Design

1940
Remember the Night

as Costume Design

1940
The Great McGinty

as Costume Design

1940
The Ghost Breakers

as Costume Design

1940
Buck Benny Rides Again

as Costume Design

1940
Rhythm on the River

as Costume Design

1940
Adventure in Diamonds

as Costume Design

1940
Love Thy Neighbor

as Costume Design

1940
Typhoon

as Costume Design

1940
1940
Moon Over Burma

as Costume Design

1940
Safari

as Costume Design

1940
Dancing on a Dime

as Costume Design

1940
Untamed

as Costume Design

1939
Beau Geste

as Costume Design

1939
Invitation to Happiness

as Costume Design

1939
1939
Honeymoon in Bali

as Costume Design

1939
Never Say Die

as Costume Design

1939
The Cat and the Canary

as Costume Design

1939
The Magnificent Fraud

as Costume Design

1939
Man of Conquest

as Costume Design

1939
Disbarred

as Costume Design

1939
Man About Town

as Costume Design

1939
The Star Maker

as Costume Design

1939
Sudden Money

as Costume Design

1939
Paris Honeymoon

as Costume Design

1939
King of Chinatown

as Costume Design

1939
The Great Victor Herbert

as Costume Design

1939
Hotel Imperial

as Costume Design

1939
Disputed Passage

as Costume Design

1939
Cafe Society

as Costume Design

1938
The Big Broadcast of 1938

as Costume Design

1938
Mad About Music

as Costume Design

1938
Spawn of the North

as Costume Design

1938
The Texans

as Costume Design

1938
College Swing

as Costume Design

1938
If I Were King

as Costume Design

1938
Give Me a Sailor

as Costume Design

1938
Dangerous to Know

as Costume Design

1938
Cocoanut Grove

as Costume Design

1938
Her Jungle Love

as Costume Design

1938
Men with Wings

as Costume Design

1938
Artists and Models Abroad

as Costume Design

1938
Tropic Holiday

as Costume Design

1938
Zaza

as Costume Design

1937
Souls at Sea

as Costume Design

1937
Waikiki Wedding

as Costume Design

1937
Double or Nothing

as Costume Design

1937
This Way Please

as Costume Design

1937
Wells Fargo

as Costume Design

1937
Sophie Lang Goes West

as Costume Design

1937
Blossoms On Broadway

as Costume Design

1937
Ebb Tide

as Costume Design

1937
Thrill of a Lifetime

as Costume Design

1937
Turn Off the Moon

as Costume Design

1937
Exclusive

as Costume Design

1937
Her Husband Lies

as Costume Design

1937
John Meade's Woman

as Costume Design

1936
Poppy

as Costume Design

1936
The Texas Rangers

as Costume Design

1936
Rhythm on the Range

as Costume Design

1936
Murder with Pictures

as Costume Design

1936
College Holiday

as Costume Design

1936
The Return of Sophie Lang

as Costume Design

1936
Till We Meet Again

as Costume Design

1936
Early to Bed

as Costume Design

1934
Death Takes a Holiday

as Costume Design

1934
She Loves Me Not

as Costume Design

1933
She Done Him Wrong

as Costume Design

1933
Cradle Song

as Costume Design

1932
Love Me Tonight

as Costume Design

1931
The Lawyer's Secret

as Costume Design

1930
Only the Brave

as Costume Design

1929
The Saturday Night Kid

as Costume Design

1928
Ladies of the Mob

as Costume Design

1928
The Legion of the Condemned

as Costume Design

1927
Wings

as Costume Design

1927
Underworld

as Assistant Costume Designer

1926
Mantrap

as Costume Design

1925
Are Parents People?

as Costume Design

1924
Peter Pan

as Costume Design

Actor

2016
The Women Who Run Hollywood

as Self (archive footage)

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2002
Edith Head: The Paramount Years

as Self (archive footage)

1981
Edith Head

as Self

1974
Dinah!

as Self

1971
Columbo

as Edith Head

1971
1966
The Oscar

as Edith Head

1961
The Pleasure of His Company

as Dress Designer (uncredited)

1955
Lucy Gallant

as Edith Head

1950
The Costume Designer

as Self (uncredited)

1935
Hollywood Extra Girl

as Edith Head (uncredited)