Bill Thomas

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bill Thomas (October 13, 1921 – May 30, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American costume designer with over 180 credits, best known for films such as Babes in Toyland, Spartacus and The Happiest Millionaire. He was nominated ten times for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, winning once for Spartacus. In 2006 he was inducted into the Costume Designers Guild Hall of Fame.[1]

Personal Facts

Known For

Costume & Make-Up

Gender

male

Known Credits

140

Birth Date

1921-10-13 00:00:00

Birth Place

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known For

• 

  Spartacus
• 

  The Parent Trap
• 

  The Black Hole
• 

  Logan's Run
• 

  The Love Bug
• 

  It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Credits

• actors (3 credits)

  • Inside the Dream Factory

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

    Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • The Lion Roars Again

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1975

• costume & make-up (137 credits)

  • Love is Forever

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1983
  • The Adventures of Pollyanna

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1982
  • Callie & Son

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1981
  • The Formula

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1980
  • The Black Hole

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1979
  • The Children of Sanchez

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1978
  • Logan's Run

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1976
  • Breakout

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1975
  • Wonder Woman

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1974
  • The Third Girl from the Left

    wardrobe designer

    costume & make-up
    1973
  • Oklahoma Crude

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1973
  • The Hawaiians

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1970
  • The Gypsy Moths

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1969
  • The Trouble with Girls

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1969
  • The Love Bug

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1968
  • Blackbeard's Ghost

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1968
  • The Gnome-Mobile

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1967
  • The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1967
  • Inside Daisy Clover

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1966
  • Ship of Fools

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1965
  • Cat Ballou

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1965
  • The Americanization of Emily

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1964
  • A Global Affair

    wardrobe designer

    costume & make-up
    1964
  • The Prize

    wardrobe designer

    costume & make-up
    1963
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1963
  • Toys in the Attic

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1963
  • Boys' Night Out

    co-costume designer

    costume & make-up
    1962
  • Moon Pilot

    costume designer

    costume & make-up
    1962
  • Backstage Party

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1961
  • Babes in Toyland

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1961
  • The Parent Trap

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1961
  • Spartacus

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1960
  • The Leech Woman

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1960
  • Seven Thieves

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1960
  • Operation Petticoat

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • Curse of the Undead

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • Beloved Infidel

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • The Rabbit Trap

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • The Wild and the Innocent

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • Imitation of Life

    costume designer

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • A Stranger in My Arms

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • No Name on the Bullet

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1959
  • The Restless Years

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • Ride a Crooked Trail

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • Kathy O'

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • The Saga of Hemp Brown

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • Once Upon a Horse...

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • Step Down to Terror

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • Voice in the Mirror

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • Twilight for the Gods

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • A Time to Love and a Time to Die

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • The Thing That Couldn't Die

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • This Happy Feeling

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • Live Fast, Die Young

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • Touch of Evil

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • The Lady Takes a Flyer

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • Day of the Badman

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • Flood Tide

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • The Female Animal

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1958
  • Man in the Shadow

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • The Tarnished Angels

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • Slim Carter

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • My Man Godfrey

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • Slaughter on 10th Avenue

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • Appointment with a Shadow

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • Man of a Thousand Faces

    costume designer

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • Night Passage

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • Tammy and the Bachelor

    costume designer

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • The Midnight Story

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • The Girl in the Kremlin

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • Man Afraid

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • Mister Cory

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • Istanbul

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1957
  • The Great Man

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Rock, Pretty Baby

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Written on the Wind

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • I've Lived Before

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Walk the Proud Land

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Behind the High Wall

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • The Rawhide Years

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Congo Crossing

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • Raw Edge

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • World in My Corner

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1956
  • The Spoilers

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • All That Heaven Allows

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • Foxfire

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • Cult of the Cobra

    costume designer

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • Captain Lightfoot

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • Smoke Signal

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1955
  • Sign of the Pagan

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • The Yellow Mountain

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • Magnificent Obsession

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • Playgirl

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • Saskatchewan

    costume designer

    costume & make-up
    1954
  • Forbidden

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Tumbleweed

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • The Glass Web

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • The Stand at Apache River

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • East of Sumatra

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Wings of the Hawk

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • The Man from the Alamo

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • The Great Sioux Uprising

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Take Me to Town

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Desert Legion

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • It Happens Every Thursday

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • The Mississippi Gambler

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1953
  • Because of You

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • The Raiders

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • The World in His Arms

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Yankee Buccaneer

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • The Duel at Silver Creek

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Untamed Frontier

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Flesh and Fury

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • No Room for the Groom

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Steel Town

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Meet Danny Wilson

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • The Cimarron Kid

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1952
  • Flame of Araby

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • The Raging Tide

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Cave of Outlaws

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Thunder on the Hill

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • The Lady Pays Off

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • You Never Can Tell

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Iron Man

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Smuggler's Island

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • The Prince Who Was a Thief

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Apache Drums

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Air Cadet

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Tomahawk

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1951
  • Mystery Submarine

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Kansas Raiders

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Undercover Girl

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Wyoming Mail

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Saddle Tramp

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • The Desert Hawk

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • Spy Hunt

    costume design

    costume & make-up
    1950
  • In the Good Old Summertime

    other

    costume & make-up
    1949