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name: "Jocelyn Rickards"
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roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "29 July 1924"
died: "7 July 2005"
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updated: "2026-09-18T11:01:54.957166+00:00"
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# Jocelyn Rickards

Costume designer. Born 29 July 1924 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Died 7 July 2005.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 29 July 1924, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- **Died:** 7 July 2005
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Rickards, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15821102, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725454/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9905

## Biography

Jocelyn Rickards was an Australian costume designer. Born in Melbourne in 1924, she studied art at East Sydney Technical College and moved to London in 1949. She began her career in theatre before entering film as assistant costume designer on *The Prince and the Showgirl* (1957).

Her film credits include *Look Back in Anger* (1959), *The Entertainer* (1960), *From Russia with Love* (1963), *The Knack... and How to Get It* (1965), *Blow-Up* (1966), *Mademoiselle* (1966), *Morgan!* (1966), *Ryan's Daughter* (1970) and *Sunday Bloody Sunday* (1971). She won a BAFTA Film Award for *Mademoiselle* and was nominated for an Academy Award for *Morgan!*.

Rickards was married to film director Clive Donner from 1971. She published the autobiography *The Painted Banquet: My Life and Loves* in 1987 and later taught costume design at the University of Southern California.

*Sources: latimes.com, theguardian.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, wfthn.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *From Russia with Love* (1963), Fi1m 84, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/from-russia-with-love.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen* (1981), Costume Design
- *Sunday Bloody Sunday* (1971), Costume Design
- *Ryan's Daughter* (1970), Costume Designer
- *Laughter in the Dark* (1969), Costume Design
- *Wonderwall* (1969), Costume Design
- *The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom* (1968), Costume Design
- *Interlude* (1968), Costume Design
- *Blow-Up* (1966), Costume Design
- *Mademoiselle* (1966), Costume Design
- *Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment* (1966), Costume Design
- *The Knack... and How to Get It* (1965), Costume Design
- *From Russia with Love* (1963), Costume Design — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/from-russia-with-love.md)
- *The Entertainer* (1960), Costume Designer
- *Look Back in Anger* (1959), Costume Design
- *The Prince and the Showgirl* (1957), Assistant Costume Designer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1967: Best Costume Design, Black-and-White (nominated), for *Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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