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Bill Thomas is a Actor and Co-Costume Designer American born on 13 october 1921 at Chicago (USA)

Bill Thomas

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Birth name William Thomas
Nationality USA
Birth 13 october 1921 at Chicago (USA)
Death 30 may 2000 (at 78 years) at Beverly Hills (USA)

William Thomas dit Bill Thomas, né le 13 octobre 1921 à Chicago (Illinois), mort le 30 mai 2000 à Beverly Hills (Californie), est un costumier américain.

Biography

Au cinéma, après son apprentissage à la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer vers la fin des années 1940, Bill Thomas devient chef costumier en 1950. Jusqu'en 1981, il contribue à cent-soixante-treize films américains, produits principalement par Universal Pictures (dès 1950) et Walt Disney Pictures (de 1961 à 1981). En particulier, son nom figure au générique de nombreux westerns, surtout dans les années 1950, réalisés entre autres par Budd Boetticher (ex. : Le Déserteur de Fort Alamo en 1953, avec Glenn Ford et Julie Adams) et Joseph Pevney (ex. : La Muraille d'or en 1955, avec Jane Russell et Jeff Chandler).

Parmi les films notables auxquels il collabore (souvent pour les seules robes), mentionnons Le Secret magnifique (1954, avec Jane Wyman et Rock Hudson) de Douglas Sirk — qu'il retrouve à plusieurs reprises au cours des années 1950 —, La Soif du mal d'Orson Welles (1958, avec Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh et Orson Welles), Spartacus de Stanley Kubrick (1960, avec Kirk Douglas dans le rôle-titre et Jean Simmons), Mary Poppins de Robert Stevenson (1964, avec Julie Andrews dans le rôle-titre), ou encore Les Géants de l'Ouest d'Andrew V. McLaglen (1969, avec John Wayne et Rock Hudson).

À la télévision, entre 1961 et 1983 — année où il se retire —, Bill Thomas contribue à un feuilleton, à deux séries (Le Monde merveilleux de Disney et L'Âge de cristal), ainsi qu'à trois téléfilms.

Durant sa carrière, il obtient dix nominations à l'Oscar des meilleurs costumes, dont un gagné en 1961 pour Spartacus (robes de Jean Simmons). En 1977, il gagne également le premier Saturn Award des meilleurs costumes, pour L'Âge de cristal de Michael Anderson (le film de 1976, avec Michael York et Jenny Agutter).

Best films

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
(Costume Design)
Spartacus (1960)
(Costume Design)
The Love Bug (1968)
(Costume Design)
The Black Hole (1979)
(Costume Design)
Cat Ballou (1965)
(Costume Design)
Written on the Wind (1956)
(Costume Design)

Usually with

Russel Gausman
Russel Gausman
(85 films)
Bud Westmore
Bud Westmore
(82 films)
Russell Metty
Russell Metty
(24 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Bill Thomas (119 films)

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Actor

Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1h53
Directed by James Bobin
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Time travel films, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Films based on Alice in Wonderland, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alan Rickman
Roles Driver
Rating62% 3.1087453.1087453.1087453.1087453.108745
Cela fait trois ans qu'Alice Kingsleigh suit les traces de son père et navigue dans les hautes mers. En revenant à Londres après un voyage en Chine, elle apprend que Hamish Ascot, son ex-fiancé, a repris la compagnie de son père et veut qu'Alice vende le bateau de son père en échange de sa maison familiale. Alice suit un papillon qu'elle reconnaît comme étant Absolem et, en passant à travers un miroir, retourne au Pays des Merveilles.

Costume and makup

Love is Forever, 1h36
Directed by Hall Bartlett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Michael Landon, Laura Gemser, Jürgen Prochnow, Edward Woodward, Priscilla Presley, Gabriele Tinti
Roles Costume Design
Rating49% 2.482412.482412.482412.482412.48241
Following the Pathet Lao takeover of Laos, Australian journalist John Everingham is originally sympathetic but then feels the nation is turning into a police state. General Siegfried Kaplan an East German advisor to the Pathet Lao secret police has noticed that Western newsagencies are receiving revealing news stories that could only have been provided by insiders in the Government. Kaplan vows to plug the security leaks and identify and eliminate the sources of the stories.
The Formula, 1h57
Directed by John G. Avildsen
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Environmental films, Political films
Actors George C. Scott, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, Marthe Keller, G. D. Spradlin, Beatrice Straight
Roles Costume Design
Rating56% 2.800942.800942.800942.800942.80094
The film opens in the final days of World War II as the Russians are on the outskirts of Berlin. A German army Panzer Korps general (Richard Lynch) is dispatched to the Swiss border with top secret materials, with orders to hide them from the Allies.
The Black Hole, 1h38
Directed by Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Psychologie, Dans l'espace, Films set in the future, Space opera, Children's films, Robot films, Lobotomie
Actors Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine
Roles Costume Design
Rating58% 2.9497452.9497452.9497452.9497452.949745
Nearing the end of a long mission exploring deep space, the spacecraft USS Palomino is returning to Earth. The crew consists of Captain Dan Holland, First Officer Lieutenant Charlie Pizer, journalist Harry Booth, ESP-sensitive scientist Dr. Kate McCrae, the expedition's civilian leader Dr. Alex Durant and the robot V.I.N.CENT ("Vital Information Necessary CENTralized").
Logan's Run, 2h
Directed by Michael Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, Peter Ustinov
Roles Costume Design
Rating67% 3.3983653.3983653.3983653.3983653.398365
In the year 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed domed city, a utopia run by a computer that takes care of all aspects of their life, including reproduction. The citizens live a hedonistic life but, to maintain the city, everyone must undergo the ritual of "Carrousel" [sic] when they reach the age of 30. There, they are vaporized and ostensibly "renewed". To track this, they are implanted at birth with a "life-clock" crystal in the palm of their hand that changes color as they approach their "Last Day." Most residents accept this promise of rebirth, but those who do not are known as "Runners" and "Sandmen" are assigned to pursue and terminate them.
Breakout
Breakout (1975)
, 1h36
Directed by Tom Gries
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland, Randy Quaid, John Huston, Roy Jenson
Roles Costume Design
Rating61% 3.051653.051653.051653.051653.05165
Harris Wagner (Huston) frames Jay Wagner (Duvall). In order to keep him silent, Jay is incarcerated in a Mexican prison.
Wonder Woman, 1h13
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Spy films, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Cathy Lee Crosby, Kaz Garas, Andrew Prine, Charlene Holt, Ricardo Montalbán, Richard X. Slattery
Roles Costume Design
Rating46% 2.3109352.3109352.3109352.3109352.310935
This version of Wonder Woman (Cathy Lee Crosby) did not wear the comic book costume including the tiara trademark and her "secret identity" of Diana Prince was not all that secret. The film follows Wonder Woman, assistant to government agent Steve Trevor (Kaz Garas) as she pursues a villain named Abner Smith (Ricardo Montalban) who has stolen a set of code books containing classified information about U.S. government field agents.
Oklahoma Crude, 1h48
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Western
Actors George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Jack Palance, William Lucking, Harvey Jason
Roles Costume Design
Rating62% 3.1479553.1479553.1479553.1479553.147955
Set in the early 20th century, the film is about a lone woman, Lena Doyle (Faye Dunaway) who finds herself threatened by tough businessmen who want to take her land which possesses shares of crude oil. Rather than settle and sell the land she rightfully owns, Lena decides to fight and to do this, she asks for the help of her father (John Mills) and a hired gun named Mason (George C. Scott).
The Hawaiians, 2h14
Directed by Tom Gries
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Charlton Heston, Geraldine Chaplin, Mako Iwamatsu, Bette Midler, John Phillip Law, Alec McCowen
Roles Costume Design
Rating60% 3.047433.047433.047433.047433.04743
The story begins forty years after the events depicted in the original Hawaii, as a new generation of Americans and Asians must deal with a changing island and world; one of them is a sea captain.
The Gypsy Moths, 1h47
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson, Bonnie Bedelia, Sheree North
Roles Costume Design
Rating62% 3.1473253.1473253.1473253.1473253.147325
A skydiving team called the Gypsy Moths visits a small town in Kansas to put on a show. Their leader, Mike Rettig (Burt Lancaster]), is accompanied by his partners, Joe Browdy (Hackman) and Malcolm Webson (Scott Wilson).
The Trouble with Girls, 1h39
Directed by Peter Tewksbury
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Historical, Musical, Romance
Actors Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Sheree North, Nicole Jaffe David, John Carradine, Edward Andrews
Roles Costume Design
Rating52% 2.6033252.6033252.6033252.6033252.603325
In a small Iowa town in 1927, a traveling Chautauqua company arrives, with internal squabbles dividing the troupe. The new manager, Walter Hale (Elvis Presley), is trying to prevent Charlene, the troupe’s “Story Lady” (Marlyn Mason), from recruiting the performers to form a union.
Blackbeard's Ghost, 1h46
Directed by Robert Stevenson, Paul Cameron, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester, Richard Deacon, Elliott Reid
Roles Costume Design
Rating67% 3.3980253.3980253.3980253.3980253.398025
Steve Walker (Dean Jones) arrives in a North Carolina seacoast town to take the position of track coach at Godolphin College. The night of his arrival coincides with a charity bazaar at the hotel where he will be boarding — Blackbeard's Inn, named after the notorious English pirate Captain Edward Teach and now run by the Daughters of the Buccaneers, elderly descendants of the pirate's crew. The owners are attempting to pay off their mortgage to keep the inn from being bought by the local crime boss, Silky Seymour (Joby Baker), who wants to build a casino on the land. Steve quickly discovers his track team's shortcomings and runs afoul of the dean of Godolphin College, its football coach, and Seymour. He also makes the acquaintance of attractive Godolphin professor Jo Anne Baker (Suzanne Pleshette), who is anxious to help the elderly ladies save Blackbeard's Inn.