Anthony Mendleson

{{Short description|British costume and set designer (1915–1996)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

Anthony Mendleson (7 February 1915 – 5 September 1996) was a British costume designer. His accolades include two BAFTA Awards, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards. He is best known for creating the costumes for Ealing Studios in the 1940s and 1950s, and for Pinewood Studios in the 1960s and 1970s. These include such notable films as Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), and The Ladykillers (1955).

Mendleson was born on 7 February 1915 in Chiswick, London; he died in London on 5 September 1996.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba18d0419 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610185035/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba18d0419 |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 June 2016 |title=Anthony Mendleson |publisher=BFI |date=2015-07-02 |accessdate=2016-04-21}}

Filmography

=== Film ===

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

!Title

!Director

!Notes

rowspan="4" | 1949

| Passport to Pimlico

| Henry Cornelius

|

Kind Hearts and Coronets

| Robert Hamer

|

Train of Events

| Sidney Cole
Charles Crichton
Basil Dearden

|

A Run for Your Money

| Charles Frend

|

rowspan="3" | 1950

| The Blue Lamp

| rowspan="2" | Basil Dearden

|

Cage of Gold

|

The Magnet

| Charles Frend

|

rowspan="3" | 1951

| Pool of London

| Basil Dearden

|

The Lavender Hill Mob

| Charles Crichton

|

The Man in the White Suit

| Alexander Mackendrick

|

rowspan="5" | 1952

| His Excellency

| Robert Hamer

|

Secret People

| Thorold Dickinson

|

I Believe in You

| Basil Dearden
Michael Relph

|

Mandy

| Alexander Mackendrick

|

The Gentle Gunman

| Basil Dearden

|

1953

| Meet Mr. Lucifer

| Anthony Pelissier

|

1954

| The Love Lottery

| Charles Crichton

|

1955

| The Ladykillers

| Alexander Mackendrick

|

rowspan="2" | 1956

| Who Done It?

| Basil Dearden

|

The Feminine Touch

| Pat Jackson

|

rowspan="4" | 1957

| True as a Turtle

| Wendy Toye

|

Fortune Is a Woman

| Sidney Gilliat

|

The Smallest Show on Earth

| Basil Dearden

|

The One That Got Away

| Roy Ward Baker

|

rowspan="3" | 1958

| Chase a Crooked Shadow

| Michael Anderson

|

Innocent Sinners

| Philip Leacock

|

Bachelor of Hearts

| Wolf Rilla

|

rowspan="3" | 1959

| Left Right and Centre

| Sidney Gilliat

|

The Mouse That Roared

| Jack Arnold

|

Follow a Star

| rowspan="3" | Robert Asher

|

rowspan="2" | 1960

| Make Mine Mink

|

The Bulldog Breed

|

rowspan="2" | 1961

| Mr. Topaze

| Peter Sellers

|

A Matter of WHO

| Don Chaffey

|

rowspan="3" | 1962

| She'll Have to Go

| Robert Asher

|

Guns of Darkness

| Anthony Asquith

|

Billy Budd

| Peter Ustinov

|

rowspan="2" | 1963

| The Mouse on the Moon

| Richard Lester

|

The Man Who Finally Died

| Quentin Lawrence

|

rowspan="3" | 1964

| The Long Ships

| Jack Cardiff

|

The Moon-Spinners

| James Neilson

|

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

| Anthony Asquith

|

1966

| The Fighting Prince of Donegal

| Michael O'Herlihy

|

1967

| Pretty Polly

| rowspan="2" | Guy Green

|

1968

| The Magus

|

rowspan="2" | 1969

| Oh! What a Lovely War

| Richard Attenborough

|

David Copperfield

| rowspan="2" | Delbert Mann

|

1970

| Jane Eyre

|

1971

| Macbeth

| Roman Polanski

|

rowspan="2" | 1972

| Young Winston

| Richard Attenborough

|

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

| William Sterling

|

rowspan="2" | 1974

| The Black Windmill

| Don Siegel

|

Persecution

| Don Chaffey

|

rowspan="3" | 1975

| The Ghoul

| Freddie Francis

|

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

| Robert Stevenson

|

Mister Quilp

| Michael Tuchner

|

1976

| The Incredible Sarah

| Richard Fleischer

|

rowspan="2" | 1977

| Gulliver's Travels

| Peter R. Hunt

|

A Bridge Too Far

| Richard Attenborough

|

rowspan="2" | 1978

| The Boys from Brazil

| Franklin J. Schaffner

|

The First Great Train Robbery

| Michael Crichton

|

rowspan="2" | 1980

| Saturn 3

| Stanley Donen

|

Rough Cut

| Don Siegel

|

1981

| Dragonslayer

| Matthew Robbins

|

rowspan="2" | 1983

| Krull

| Peter Yates

|

The Keep

| Michael Mann

|

=== Television ===

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

!Title

!class="unsortable"|Notes

rowspan="2" | 1984

| The Last Days of Pompeii

| 3 episodes

The Masks of Death

| rowspan="2" | Television film

rowspan="2" | 1985

| Reunion at Fairborough

Lime Street

| Episode: "The Wayward Train"

Awards and nominations

class="wikitable"
Award

!Year

!Category

!Work

!Result

!class="unsortable" | {{abbr|Ref.|References}}

rowspan="2" scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Academy Awards

| style="text-align:center;"| 1972

| rowspan="2" | Best Costume Design

| Young Winston

| {{nom}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1973|title= 45th Academy Awards|publisher= Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

style="text-align:center;"| 1976

| The Incredible Sarah

| {{nom}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1977|title= 49th Academy Awards|website= Oscars.org|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

rowspan="4" scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| British Academy Film Awards

| rowspan="2", style="text-align:center;"| 1964

| rowspan="2" | Best British Costume Design – Colour

| The Long Ships

| {{nom}}

| rowspan="2", style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://awards.bafta.org/award/1965/film|title= 18th BAFTA Film Awards|publisher= British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

| {{nom}}

style="text-align:center;"| 1969

| rowspan="2" | Best Costume Design

| Oh! What a Lovely War

| {{won}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://awards.bafta.org/award/1970/film|title= 23rd BAFTA Film Awards|publisher= British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

style="text-align:center;"| 1972

| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Macbeth / Young Winston

| {{won}}{{efn|According to the BAFTAs database, Mendleson received a single joint award for three different films.}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web|url= https://awards.bafta.org/award/1973/film|title= 26th BAFTA Film Awards|publisher= British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)|accessdate= February 4, 2023}}

rowspan="2" scope="row" style="text-align:center;"| Saturn Awards

| style="text-align:center;"| 1981

| rowspan="2" | Best Costume Design

| Dragonslayer

| {{nom}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web |url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1981/1981sat.htm |title=1981 {{!}} 9th Saturn Awards |website=Los Angeles Times |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213004552/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1981/1981sat.htm |archive-date=February 13, 2006 |access-date=July 22, 2018}}

style="text-align:center;"| 1983

| Krull

| {{nom}}

|style="text-align:center;"| {{Cite web |url=http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1983/1983sat.htm |title=1983 {{!}} 11th Saturn Awards |website=Los Angeles Times |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060213004610/http://theenvelope.latimes.com/extras/lostmind/year/1983/1983sat.htm |archive-date=February 13, 2006 |access-date=July 22, 2018}}

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