James Keast

James Keast

Costume designer. Born 11 March 1957 in Armadale, West Lothian, Scotland, UK. Died 11 July 2020.

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11 March 1957, Armadale, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
Died
11 July 2020

Biography

James Keast (1957–2020) was a Scottish costume designer. Born in Armadale, West Lothian, he studied at Edinburgh School of Art before working as a costume assistant at Berman’s and Nathan’s in London. He later joined the BBC on a trainee scheme and worked as a costume designer on Bergerac (1987).

His credits include the BBC film Truly Madly Deeply (1991), the series The House of Eliott (1992), Our Friends in the North (1996), Warriors (1999), The Long Firm (2004), Luther (2010–2019), Mr Selfridge (2013–2016), Victoria (2016), Yardie (2018) and Belgravia (2020). He won a Bafta award for The Long Firm and a Royal Television Society award for Warriors.

Films and series

Beyond what we have reviewed, James Keast is known for Truly Madly Deeply (1991), The Scandalous Lady W (2015), Belgravia (2020), The Lost World (2001), Archangel (2005), Yardie (2018), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2008) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002).