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name: "Bernadette O'Brien"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bernadette-obrien"
fi1m_id: "bernadette-obrien"
imdb_id: "nm0639441"
tmdb_id: 1402404
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "29 March 1934"
died: "20 January 2025"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T18:05:05.025913+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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# Bernadette O'Brien

## Identity

Bernadette O'Brien

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bernadette-obrien
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bernadette-obrien
- **IMDb ID:** nm0639441
- **TMDB ID:** 1402404
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639441/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1402404

Costume designer. Born 29 March 1934 in Dublin, Ireland. Died 20 January 2025.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 29 March 1934, Dublin, Ireland
- **Died:** 20 January 2025
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0639441/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1402404

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Vice Squad*](https://film.one/film/vice-squad.md) (64)

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

## Biography

Bernadette O'Brien was a costume designer and wardrobe supervisor. Born Helen Bernadette Brady in Dublin on 29 March 1934, she immigrated to the United States in 1955 with her husband Jack and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. She worked in theatrical productions there, taught costume design at a local university and contributed to the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival before moving to Los Angeles in 1977.

O'Brien's film credits as costume designer include *Vice Squad* (1982), *Eyes of Fire* (1983), *House* (1985), *Thrashin'* (1986) and *Cries of Silence* (1996). She also served as costume supervisor on *Good Burger* (1997) and *Another Stakeout* (1993), and worked on *For the Boys* (1991) and *Mobsters* (1991). On television she contributed to series including *MacGyver*, for which she received a 1992 Emmy nomination shared with Thomas Welsh, *Murder, She Wrote* and *T.J. Hooker*.

O'Brien died on 20 January 2025 in Spokane, Washington.

*Sources: hollywoodreporter.com, variety.com, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Vice Squad* (1982), Fi1m 64, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/vice-squad.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

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

- *Dawg* (2002), Set Costumer
- *Jack the Dog* (2001), Costume Supervisor
- *Good Burger* (1997), Costume Supervisor
- *Cries of Silence* (1996), Costume Design
- *Hunk* (1987), Costume Designer
- *Thrashin'* (1986), Costume Design
- *House* (1985), Costume Design
- *Prime Risk* (1985), Costume Design
- *Eyes of Fire* (1983), Costume Design
- *Vice Squad* (1982), Costume Design — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/vice-squad.md)

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