RIP Phyllis Dalton

 

Two-time Oscar winning British costume designer Phyllis Dalton died on January 9^th at the age of 99. Born in London on October 11, 1925. Dalton’s two Oscar wins came nearly a quarter century apart, first for her work on David Lean’s 1965 historical epic “Doctor Zhivago,” and then again for Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry V,” in which the actor-director famously performs the Bard’s iconic St. Crispin’s Day speech. Dalton was also costume designer on “Lawrence of Arabia” in 1962. Dalton was the costume designer on one Euro-western 1979’s “Eagle’s Wing”.