Herschel McCoy

{{Short description|American motion picture costume designer}}

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| name = Herschel McCoy

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| birth_name = Herschel Denman McCoy

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1912|8|6}}

| birth_place = Wiggins, Mississippi

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1956|02|3|1912|8|6}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California

| occupation = costume designer

| yearsactive = 1936 - 1955

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Herschel McCoy (August 6, 1912 – February 3, 1956) was an American motion picture costume designer with credits on more than 150 feature films from 1936 to 1955. He was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.{{cite book |title=Creating the Illusion: A Fashionable History of Hollywood Costume Designers |chapter=Herschel McCoy |first1=Jay |last1=Jorgensen |first2=Donald L. |last2=Scoggins |others=Introduction by Ali MacGraw |publisher=Running Press |date=2015 |isbn=9780762458073 |oclc=921822837 |page=83 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4G4uCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA83}}

McCoy's early efforts were largely focused on B movies, such as several entries in the Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto canons. He had just graduated to major studio productions like an uncredited assist on Joan of Arc (1948), Quo Vadis (1951), and Dream Wife (1953) when he died suddenly in 1956 at the age of 43. For the last two films, McCoy was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1952 |title=The 24th Academy Awards (1952) Nominees and Winners |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |accessdate=August 27, 2011 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1954 |title=The 26th Academy Awards (1954) Nominees and Winners |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |accessdate=August 27, 2011 }}

McCoy's drawings for twenty-two of his designs are in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.{{cite web |title=Herschel McCoy holdings |url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/169503 |accessdate=2020-07-23 |publisher=Los Angeles County Museum of Art}}