Oscar winning costume designer Phyllis Dalton died on Thursday, January 9, 2025. She was 99 years old.

Dalton was a two-time Academy Award winner for her costume design in Doctor Zhivago and in 1990’s Henry V. She was also nominated for an Oscar for her work in Oliver.

She was born on October 16, 1925 in Chiswick, England. Dalton started drawing clothes and researching how people dressed in the past when she was a child. She studied costume design at Ealing Art College and became an assistant for fashion designer Matilda Etches. During World War II she served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service at a code-breaking office.

Dalton began her career as a wardrobe assistant on 1944’s Henry V, followed by When the Bough Breaks, The Blind Goddess, Eye Witness, and A Christmas Carol. She got her first costume designer credit for The Dark Man in 1951 and Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue in ’53.

She worked with famous costume designer Edith Head on Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, was an assistant on Anastasia, and she was the costume designer for Our Man in Havana. One of Dalton’s most well regarded films was designing the military costumes and Arab designs for Lawrence of Arabia.

Dalton was the costume designer for Voyage of the Damned, The Awakening, The Hunchback of Notre Dame TV movie, The Last Days of Patton, and she designed the fairytale costumes for The Princess Bride. After Henry V, she worked with director Kenneth Branagh two more times on the thriller Dead Again and the adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, which was her final film.