---
name: "Beatrice Dawson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/beatrice-dawson"
fi1m_id: "beatrice-dawson"
imdb_id: "nm0206067"
tmdb_id: 29894
wikidata_id: "Q15787326"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "26 January 1908"
died: "16 April 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T04:57:59.771060+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."
---

# Beatrice Dawson

## Identity

Beatrice Dawson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/beatrice-dawson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** beatrice-dawson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0206067
- **TMDB ID:** 29894
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15787326
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Dawson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15787326, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29894

Costume designer. Born 26 January 1908 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK. Died 16 April 1976.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 26 January 1908, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 16 April 1976
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Dawson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15787326, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29894

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Pandora and the Flying Dutchman*](https://film.one/film/pandora-and-the-flying-dutchman.md) (79)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Beatrice Dawson (26 January 1908 – 16 April 1976) was a British costume designer. Born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, she trained at Chelsea Polytechnic and the Slade School of Art. She began working as a costume designer in the theatre in 1945 and moved into film in the late 1940s.

Dawson received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design (Black and White) for *The Pickwick Papers* (1952) and three BAFTA nominations. Her film credits include *Pandora and the Flying Dutchman* (1951), *The Importance of Being Earnest* (1952), *The Prince and the Showgirl* (1957), *The Servant* (1963), *Woman of Straw* (1964) and *Accident* (1967). She also designed for stage productions and television, and frequently collaborated with actor Dirk Bogarde.

*Sources: catalog.afi.com, imdb.com, filmreference.com, web.archive.org, ibdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Pandora and the Flying Dutchman* (1951), Fi1m 79, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/pandora-and-the-flying-dutchman.md)

## Complete filmography (47)

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

- *The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones* (1976), Costume Designer
- *Brief Encounter* (1976), Costume Design
- *The Collection* (1976), Costume Supervisor
- *Fallen Angels* (1974), Costume Design
- *The Merchant of Venice* (1973), Costume Design
- *A Doll's House* (1973), Costume Design
- *Zee and Co.* (1972), Costume Design
- *The Ballad of Tam Lin* (1970), Costume Design
- *The Man Who Haunted Himself* (1970), Costume Designer
- *Three Sisters* (1970), Costume Design
- *The Last Grenade* (1970), Costume Designer
- *Guns in the Heather* (1969), Costume Design
- *The Assassination Bureau* (1969), Costume Design
- *Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter* (1968), Costume Design
- *Only When I Larf* (1968), Costume Designer
- *Accident* (1967), Costume Design
- *Promise Her Anything* (1966), Costume Design
- *Where the Spies Are* (1966), Costume Design
- *Life at the Top* (1965), Costume Designer
- *Masquerade* (1965), Costume Design
- *The Beauty Jungle* (1964), Costume Design
- *Woman of Straw* (1964), Costume Design
- *Macbeth* (1964), Costume Design
- *The Servant* (1963), Costume Design
- *The L-Shaped Room* (1962), Costume Designer
- *Term of Trial* (1962), Costume Designer
- *Waltz of the Toreadors* (1962), Costume Designer
- *The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone* (1961), Costume Design
- *The Day the Earth Caught Fire* (1961), Costume Design
- *Too Hot to Handle* (1960), Costume Design
- *The Full Treatment* (1960), Costume Design
- *The Challenge* (1960), Costume Designer
- *Expresso Bongo* (1959), Costume Design
- *The Key* (1958), Costume Design
- *The Abominable Snowman* (1957), Costume Design
- *Manuela* (1957), Costume Designer
- *The Prince and the Showgirl* (1957), Costume Design
- *Footsteps in the Fog* (1955), Costume Designer
- *Svengali* (1954), Costume Design
- *The Black Knight* (1954), Costume Design
- *The Importance of Being Earnest* (1952), Costume Design
- *Tom Brown's Schooldays* (1951), Costume Design
- *Pandora and the Flying Dutchman* (1951), Costume Design — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/pandora-and-the-flying-dutchman.md)
- *State Secret* (1950), Costume Design
- *The Reluctant Widow* (1950), Costume Design
- *Trottie True* (1949), Costume Design
- *Dear Mr. Prohack* (1949), Costume Design

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1956: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (nominated), for *The Pickwick Papers*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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