Personal Information

Known ForCostume & Make-Up

GenderMale

Born / DiedOct 13, 1921 (Died at 79)

Zodiac Sign♎Libra

Place of BirthChicago, Illinois, USA

Career Span1949 – 2000

Known Credits140 Titles

Official Links

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Costume & Make-UpPopularity Score 0.6

Bill Thomas

Also known as:William Thomas

Total Works

140

139 movies • 1 shows

Avg Rating

6.3 / 10

across rated releases

Box Office

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Global Reach

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bill Thomas (October 13, 1921 – May 30, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American costume designer with over 180 credits, best known for films such as Babes in Toyland, Spartacus and The Happiest Millionaire. He was nominated ten times for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, winning once for Spartacus. In 2006 he was inducted into the Costume Designers Guild Hall of Fame.[1]

Signature Roles & Milestones

Top-rated highlights from Bill Thomas's career

7.5

Spartacus

1960•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.7

Touch of Evil

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Logan's Run

1976•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963•movie

Role: Costume Design

Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 140 titles featuring Bill Thomas

7.5

Spartacus

1960•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.7

Touch of Evil

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Logan's Run

1976•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

The Love Bug

1968•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

The Black Hole

1979•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

The Parent Trap

1961•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

Operation Petticoat

1959•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.3

All That Heaven Allows

1955•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.4

Imitation of Life

1959•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.4

Cat Ballou

1965•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Written on the Wind

1956•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

Blackbeard's Ghost

1968•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Magnificent Obsession

1954•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

The Prize

1963•movie

Role: Wardrobe Designer

6.3

Breakout

1975•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

Babes in Toyland

1961•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Ship of Fools

1965•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

A Time to Love and a Time to Die

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

The Tarnished Angels

1957•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

No Name on the Bullet

1959•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Night Passage

1957•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

The Americanization of Emily

1964•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

The Gnome-Mobile

1967•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.6

Inside Daisy Clover

1966•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

Man in the Shadow

1957•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

The Gypsy Moths

1969•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

The Formula

1980•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

The World in His Arms

1952•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.8

Man of a Thousand Faces

1957•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.6

The Man from the Alamo

1953•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin

1967•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.8

The Leech Woman

1960•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

In the Good Old Summertime

1949•movie

Role: Other

7.0

The Duel at Silver Creek

1952•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

Seven Thieves

1960•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

Curse of the Undead

1959•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.2

The Thing That Couldn't Die

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Cult of the Cobra

1955•movie

Role: Costume Designer

5.4

Wonder Woman

1974•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Oklahoma Crude

1973•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

The Midnight Story

1957•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

Thunder on the Hill

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

Boys' Night Out

1962•movie

Role: Co-Costume Designer

6.3

Apache Drums

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Beloved Infidel

1959•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Tammy and the Bachelor

1957•movie

Role: Costume Designer

4.9

The Trouble with Girls

1969•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

Saskatchewan

1954•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.5

Ride a Crooked Trail

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

My Man Godfrey

1957•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Toys in the Attic

1963•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Kansas Raiders

1950•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

The Glass Web

1953•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Tomahawk

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

The Cimarron Kid

1952•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

Moon Pilot

1962•movie

Role: Costume Designer

6.2

Iron Man

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

The Wild and the Innocent

1959•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

Captain Lightfoot

1955•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.1

The Raging Tide

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

The Hawaiians

1970•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

Tumbleweed

1953•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

The Female Animal

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

Day of the Badman

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

Raw Edge

1956•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.9

Smoke Signal

1955•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

Walk the Proud Land

1956•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.4

Cave of Outlaws

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.6

The Rawhide Years

1956•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

The Stand at Apache River

1953•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.4

The Yellow Mountain

1954•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

Appointment with a Shadow

1957•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

You Never Can Tell

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

The Prince Who Was a Thief

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

Behind the High Wall

1956•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.3

Playgirl

1954•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

Congo Crossing

1956•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.2

The Mississippi Gambler

1953•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

Wings of the Hawk

1953•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Forbidden

1953•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

Spy Hunt

1950•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Saddle Tramp

1950•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Flesh and Fury

1952•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

Step Down to Terror

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

Foxfire

1955•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.5

Undercover Girl

1950•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Mister Cory

1957•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.9

Love is Forever

1983•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

No Room for the Groom

1952•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Istanbul

1957•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

The Raiders

1952•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.1

The Spoilers

1955•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.4

The Saga of Hemp Brown

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.9

The Great Sioux Uprising

1953•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.7

Callie & Son

1981•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

Slaughter on 10th Avenue

1957•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Because of You

1952•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.0

The Great Man

1956•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.4

The Desert Hawk

1950•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.2

Flame of Araby

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Yankee Buccaneer

1952•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

The Children of Sanchez

1978•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.3

A Global Affair

1964•movie

Role: Wardrobe Designer

5.0

The Girl in the Kremlin

1957•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.7

Air Cadet

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.3

Untamed Frontier

1952•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.2

Wyoming Mail

1950•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.4

The Lady Takes a Flyer

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Sign of the Pagan

1954•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.7

Twilight for the Gods

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Desert Legion

1953•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.3

It Happens Every Thursday

1953•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

World in My Corner

1956•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

East of Sumatra

1953•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Voice in the Mirror

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.8

This Happy Feeling

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

Live Fast, Die Young

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.0

Man Afraid

1957•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.4

Meet Danny Wilson

1952•movie

Role: Costume Design

5.8

Rock, Pretty Baby

1956•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.4

Smuggler's Island

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

4.2

A Stranger in My Arms

1959•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.6

The Rabbit Trap

1959•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

Backstairs at the White House

1979•series

Role: Costume Design

7.5

The Lady Pays Off

1951•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.5

Take Me to Town

1953•movie

Role: Costume Design

6.1

I've Lived Before

1956•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Steel Town

1952•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.3

Once Upon a Horse...

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

Inside the Dream Factory

1995•movie

as Self

9.5

The Third Girl from the Left

1973•movie

Role: Wardrobe Designer

7.0

Mystery Submarine

1950•movie

Role: Costume Design

10.0

Kathy O'

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

The Restless Years

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

9.0

Flood Tide

1958•movie

Role: Costume Design

8.0

Slim Carter

1957•movie

Role: Costume Design

7.0

Backstage Party

1961•movie

Role: Costume Design

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1988•movie

as Narrator (voice)

The Adventures of Pollyanna

1982•movie

Role: Costume Design