Julie Harris
Date of Birth
Julie Harris was an English costume designer known for her work on A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Live and Let Die, The Great Muppet Caper and dozens of other popular films. She won an Oscar for the 1965 release Darling, and later in her career worked on several U.K. television productions.
Born in London in 1921, Harris earned her first credit on the 1947 release Holiday Camp and had worked on more than 50 films prior to A Hard Day's Night and Help!, director Richard Lester's international hits starring the Beatles.
Recalling the experience, Harris once quipped, "I must be one of the few people who can claim they have seen John, Paul, George and Ringo naked."
Other films on her prodigious resume included The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, Casino Royale, Rollerball, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Frenzy, Candleshoe and The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella.
Over the course of her career, Harris worked with such stars as Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, Alan Ladd, Jayne Mansfield and Roger Moore, and with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, John Schlesinger and Billy Wilder.
Julie Harris was an English costume designer known for her work on A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Live and Let Die, The Great Muppet Caper and dozens of other popular films. She won an Oscar for the 1965 release Darling, and later in her career worked on several U.K. television productions.
Born in London in 1921, Harris earned her first credit on the 1947 release Holiday Camp and had worked on more than 50 films prior to A Hard Day's Night and Help!, director Richard Lester's international hits starring the Beatles.
Recalling the experience, Harris once quipped, "I must be one of the few people who can claim they have seen John, Paul, George and Ringo naked."
Other films on her prodigious resume included The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, Casino Royale, Rollerball, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Frenzy, Candleshoe and The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella.
Over the course of her career, Harris worked with such stars as Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall, Alan Ladd, Jayne Mansfield and Roger Moore, and with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, John Schlesinger and Billy Wilder.
Her Oscar for Darling, at the height of the Swinging London era of the ’60s, included stylish fashions worn by the film's star, Julie Christie.
Harris was also nominated for a BAFTA five times, and won in 1966 for The Wrong Box, an adaptation of a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson that starred John Mills, Michael Caine and Ralph Richardson.
In the 1980s Harris worked on several made-for-television movies, including The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Ian Richardson as Sherlock Holmes; The Kingfisher, with Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller; and Arch of Triumph, with Anthony Hopkins and Lesley-Anne Down.
Harris died in London on May 30, 2015. She was 94.
The Television Academy database lists prime-time Emmy information. Click here to learn more
