Judy Moorcroft

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Judy Moorcroft (born September 21, 1933 as Judith Christine Moorcroft in Stockport , Cheshire , Great Britain , † December 13, 1991 in London-Westminster ) was a British costume designer .

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After five years of training at the College of Art in Manchester , Judy Moorcroft began working for the BBC in the mid-1960s , of which she was a member until 1969. Since the end of the same decade she has designed costumes for movies.

In addition to several insignificant mainstream productions, Judy Moorcroft also repeatedly supplied extensive costume designs for high-quality films such as James Ivory's The Europeans , which required her to have a keen sense of a certain era. For this film, she received her first Oscar nomination in 1980 . After her entry into Hollywood Yentl , a costume-intensive love film by and with Barbra Streisand , Judy Moorcroft had finally established herself internationally. A short distance she was at two of the most important and most celebrated films of the decade, The Killing Fields - Crying country and travel to India involved that you demanded very different costume designs. In 1985, Judy Moorcroft received her second Oscar nomination for the latter production by David Lean .

Judy Moorcroft's follow-up work was again more conventional, rarely artistically demanding projects. Shortly after another Indian film with their costumes, City of Joy was able to support sustainable, died Judy Moorcroft, only 58 years old to cancer .

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literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 527.

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personal data
SURNAME Moorcroft, Judy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moorcroft, Judith Christine (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockport
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1991
Place of death London Westminster