---
name: "David Cox"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-cox-1296653"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "13 June 1906"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T21:38:35.474179+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."
---

# David Cox

Costume designer. Born 13 June 1906 in Hawthorne, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 13 June 1906, Hawthorne, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1929–1930
- **Also known as:** James David Cox, Dave Cox
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1920s 60 (1), 1930s 78 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0184984/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1296653

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Big House*](https://film.one/film/the-big-house.md) (78)

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## Biography

David Cox is an American costume and wardrobe designer for Hollywood films.

Born on 13 June 1906 in Hawthorne, New York, he worked under the names David Cox, Dave Cox and James David Cox. His credits span the late 1920s and early 1930s and include wardrobe on *The Big House* (1930), costume design on *The Man Who Laughs* (1928) and wardrobe design on *The Broadway Melody* (1929) and *Spite Marriage* (1929).

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, svenskfilmdatabas.se.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Big House* (1930), Fi1m 78, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-house.md)
- *The Broadway Melody* (1929), Fi1m 60, Wardrobe Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-broadway-melody.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

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

- *Jurassic World Dominion* (2022), Makeup Artist, Hairstylist — Fi1m 42, [page](https://film.one/film/jurassic-world-dominion.md)
- *Robbers' Roost* (1932), Wardrobe Designer
- *Call Her Savage* (1932), Wardrobe Designer
- *Tess of the Storm Country* (1932), Costume Design
- *The Golden West* (1932), Costume Design
- *Rackety Rax* (1932), Costume Design
- *6 Hours to Live* (1932), Costume Design
- *The First Year* (1932), Costume Design
- *Bachelor's Affairs* (1932), Costume Design
- *Society Girl* (1932), Costume Design
- *Man About Town* (1932), Costume Design
- *The Woman in Room 13* (1932), Costume Design
- *The Trial of Vivienne Ware* (1932), Costume Design
- *Amateur Daddy* (1932), Costume Design
- *Charlie Chan's Chance* (1932), Costume Design
- *Reaching for the Moon* (1930), Costume Designer
- *Call of the Flesh* (1930), Wardrobe Designer
- *Way Out West* (1930), Costume Design
- *The Big House* (1930), Costume Design — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-house.md)
- *Children of Pleasure* (1930), Wardrobe Designer
- *The Ship from Shanghai* (1930), Wardrobe Designer
- *They Learned About Women* (1930), Wardrobe Designer
- *Chasing Rainbows* (1930), Costume Design
- *It's a Great Life* (1929), Costume Designer
- *Speedway* (1929), Costume Design
- *His Glorious Night* (1929), Costume Design
- *Madame X* (1929), Wardrobe Designer
- *Wonder of Women* (1929), Wardrobe Designer
- *Where East Is East* (1929), Wardrobe Supervisor
- *Spite Marriage* (1929), Wardrobe Designer
- *The Duke Steps Out* (1929), Costume Designer
- *The Broadway Melody* (1929), Wardrobe Designer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-broadway-melody.md)
- *West of Zanzibar* (1928), Wardrobe Designer
- *The Man Who Laughs* (1928), Costume Design
- *Our Dancing Daughters* (1928), Wardrobe Designer
- *The Cossacks* (1928), Costume Design
- *Detectives* (1928), Costume Design
- *Diamond Handcuffs* (1928), Costume Design
- *Spring Fever* (1927), Costume Design

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