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name: "Ali Hubert"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ali-hubert"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "1 December 1878"
died: "1 June 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T23:23:08.966720+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ali Hubert

Costume designer. Born 1 December 1878 in Vienna, Austria. Died 1 June 1940.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 1 December 1878, Vienna, Austria
- **Died:** 1 June 1940
- **Active:** 1928–1937
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 72 (1), 1930s 70 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1574729

## Biography

Ali Hubert (born Alexander Hubert) was an Austrian costume designer who worked in German silent cinema and Hollywood. Born on 1 December 1878 in Vienna, he began as a landscape painter before turning to costume design for the stage and film around the end of the First World War.

He collaborated regularly with director Ernst Lubitsch on early German productions and later followed him to the United States. His credits include costume design for *The Patriot* (1928), *The Merry Widow* (1934) and *The Life of Emile Zola* (1937). He also worked as a technical advisor on several later films.

Hubert died on 1 June 1940 in Hollywood, California.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, de.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Life of Emile Zola* (1937), Fi1m 70, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-life-of-emile-zola.md)
- *The Patriot* (1928), Fi1m 72, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-patriot.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex* (1939), Technical Advisor
- *Blockade* (1938), Costume Design
- *The Life of Emile Zola* (1937), Costume Design — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-life-of-emile-zola.md)
- *The Patriot* (1928), Costume Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-patriot.md)
- *The City of Temptation* (1925), Costume Design
- *The Ancient Law* (1923), Costume Design
- *Die Flamme* (1923), Costume Design
- *Die Abenteuer der schönen Dorette* (1921), Costume Design
- *Anna Boleyn* (1920), Costume Design
- *Sumurun* (1920), Costume Design

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