---
name: "Helen Colvig"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/helen-colvig"
fi1m_id: "helen-colvig"
imdb_id: "nm0173417"
tmdb_id: 3456
wikidata_id: "Q30728793"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "8 April 1922"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 86
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-24T03:10:32.911202+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."
---

# Helen Colvig

## Identity

Helen Colvig

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/helen-colvig
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** helen-colvig
- **IMDb ID:** nm0173417
- **TMDB ID:** 3456
- **Wikidata ID:** Q30728793
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30728793, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0173417/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3456

Costume designer. Born 8 April 1922 in United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 8 April 1922, United States
- **Active:** 1960–1971
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 90 (1), 1970s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30728793, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0173417/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3456

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory*](https://film.one/film/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory.md) (82)

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## Biography

Helen Colvig is an American costume designer. Born on 8 April 1922, she worked for many years at Universal Studios and contributed to numerous films and television productions.

Her credits include costume supervisor on *Psycho* (1960) and costume design on *Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory* (1971), *The Andromeda Strain* (1971), *Play Misty for Me* (1971), *Two Mules for Sister Sara* (1970), *The Beguiled* (1971), *Coogan's Bluff* (1968) and *Charley Varrick* (1973).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory* (1971), Fi1m 82, Costume design, Costume Design — [page](https://film.one/film/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory.md)
- *Psycho* (1960), Fi1m 90, Costume Supervisor — [page](https://film.one/film/psycho.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *Charley Varrick* (1973), Costume Design
- *Hitched* (1973), Costume Design
- *The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid* (1972), Costume Design
- *Minnie and Moskowitz* (1971), Costume Design
- *Play Misty for Me* (1971), Costume Design
- *Lock, Stock and Barrel* (1971), Costume Design
- *Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory* (1971), Costume Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory.md)
- *The Andromeda Strain* (1971), Costume Design
- *How to Frame a Figg* (1971), Costume Design
- *The Beguiled* (1971), Costume Design
- *I Love My Wife* (1970), Costume Design
- *The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County* (1970), Costume Designer
- *Two Mules for Sister Sara* (1970), Costume Design
- *Ritual of Evil* (1970), Costume Design
- *Change of Habit* (1969), Costume Design
- *The Love God?* (1969), Costume Design
- *This Savage Land* (1969), Costume Design
- *Death of a Gunfighter* (1969), Costume Design
- *Sam Whiskey* (1969), Costume Designer
- *Fear No Evil* (1969), Costumer
- *Coogan's Bluff* (1968), Costume Design
- *A Man Called Gannon* (1968), Costume Design
- *Rough Night in Jericho* (1967), Costume Design
- *Winchester '73* (1967), Costume Design
- *Gunfight in Abilene* (1967), Costume Design
- *How I Spent My Summer Vacation* (1967), Costume Design
- *Texas Across the River* (1966), Costume Design
- *The Appaloosa* (1966), Costume Design
- *The Plainsman* (1966), Costume Designer
- *Incident at Phantom Hill* (1966), Costume Design
- *Out of Sight* (1966), Costume Design
- *The Night Walker* (1964), Costume Design
- *The Killers* (1964), Costume Design
- *Psycho* (1960), Costume Supervisor — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/psycho.md)

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