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Occupation
  
costume designer

Spouse
  
Ann Mollo (m. 1956–1966)

Role
  
Costume Designer


Name
  
John Mollo

Years active
  
1970-2003

Siblings
  
Andrew Mollo

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Born
  
March 18, 1931 (age 93) (
1931-03-18
)
London, England

Books
  
Military fashion, Waterloo uniforms

Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Saturn Award for Best Costume

Nominations
  
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special

Similar People
  
Bhanu Athaiya, Leslie Dilley, Norman Reynolds, Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas

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John Mollo (born 18 March 1931 in London, England) is a British costume designer and book author, most known for his Oscar-winning costume design for the Star Wars film series. He is the older brother of Andrew Mollo and Boris Mollo.

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Biography

John Mollo has been interested in European and American military uniforms since a very young age and wrote several books on the subject. This led him to costume design, first being an advisor for the movie Charge of the Light Brigade in 1966 and later a costume designer, his first film being George Lucas' Star Wars in 1977. Mollo has also been a military advisor on the films Zulu Dawn, Barry Lyndon and Nicholas and Alexandra.

Films

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  • Star Wars (1977)
  • Alien (1979)
  • The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
  • Outland (1981)
  • Gandhi (1982)
  • The Lords of Discipline (1983)
  • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
  • King David (1985)
  • Revolution (1985)
  • Cry Freedom (1987)
  • Hanna's War (1988)
  • White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
  • Air America (1990)
  • Chaplin (1992)
  • The Three Musketeers (1993)
  • The Jungle Book (1994)
  • Event Horizon (1997)

    • Awards and nominations

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  • two Academy Awards
  • 1978: Star Wars
  • 1983: Gandhi (together with Bhanu Athaiya)
  • three Saturn Award nominations, won one
  • 1978: Star Wars
  • five BAFTA Award nominations
  • three Emmy Award nominations

    • Publications

  • Military Fashion
  • 1991 reprint of: Uniforms of The American Revolution in Color. Illustrated by Malcolm McGregor. Stirling Publications, New York, NY, ISBN 0-8069-8240-3.
  • Uniforms of the Seven Years' War, seventeen hundred and fiftysix to sixtythree, Illustrated by Malcolm McGregor
  • Into the Valley of Death: The British Cavalry Division at Balaclava 1854, co-written with Boris Mollo, plates by Bryan Fosten. Windrow & Greene, London, 1991 ISBN 1-872004-75-X.

    • References

    John Mollo Wikipedia
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