---
name: "Gene Coffin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gene-coffin"
fi1m_id: "gene-coffin"
imdb_id: "nm0168919"
tmdb_id: 1650504
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "20 August 1905"
died: "18 October 1977"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T16:43:23.901780+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."
---

# Gene Coffin

## Identity

Gene Coffin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gene-coffin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gene-coffin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0168919
- **TMDB ID:** 1650504
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168919/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1650504

Costume designer. Born 20 August 1905. Died 18 October 1977.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 20 August 1905
- **Died:** 18 October 1977
- **Active:** 1962–1968
- **Also known as:** Eugene Coffin
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0168919/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1650504

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*The Producers*](https://film.one/film/the-producers.md) (82)
- **Tubi:** [*Lolita*](https://film.one/film/lolita.md) (73)

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## Biography

Gene Coffin was an American costume designer who worked in film and on Broadway. Born in 1905, he died in New York City in 1977.

He received costume design credits on the films *Lolita* (1962) and *The Producers* (1967). Other film work includes *Bananas* (1971), *The Anderson Tapes* (1971) and *The Yellow Rolls-Royce* (1964). He also designed costumes for several Broadway productions in the 1950s and 1960s, including *Dear Charles* (1954), *Someone Waiting* (1956) and *The 49th Cousin* (1960). Earlier credits include television series such as *The United States Steel Hour*.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, ibdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Producers* (1968), Fi1m 82, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-producers.md)
- *Lolita* (1962), Fi1m 73, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/lolita.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Lovin' Molly* (1974), Costume Design
- *The Anderson Tapes* (1971), Costume Design
- *Bananas* (1971), Costume Design
- *Don't Drink the Water* (1969), Costume Design
- *Goodbye, Columbus* (1969), Costume Design
- *The Producers* (1968), Costume Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-producers.md)
- *The Happening* (1967), Costume Design
- *The Yellow Rolls-Royce* (1964), Costume Design
- *Act One* (1963), Costume Designer
- *Lolita* (1962), Costume Design — Fi1m 73, [page](https://film.one/film/lolita.md)
- *The Iceman Cometh* (1960), series, Costume Design
- *A Wind from the South* (1955), Costume Design
- *No Time for Sergeants* (1955), Costume Design
- *The Thief* (1955), Costume Design

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