---
name: "Joe Fretwell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joe-fretwell"
fi1m_id: "joe-fretwell"
tmdb_id: 1300903
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "19 September 1915"
died: "5 November 1992"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:23:55.120641+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."
---

# Joe Fretwell

## Identity

Joe Fretwell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joe-fretwell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joe-fretwell
- **TMDB ID:** 1300903
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1300903

Costume designer. Born 19 September 1915 in Anderson, South Carolina, USA. Died 5 November 1992.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 19 September 1915, Anderson, South Carolina, USA
- **Died:** 5 November 1992
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1300903

## Biography

Joseph Fretwell III, also credited as Joe Fretwell, was an American costume designer. He was born on 19 September 1915 in Anderson, South Carolina, and died there on 5 November 1992.

Fretwell worked extensively in television in New York during the 1960s and early 1970s. His credits include the series *N.Y.P.D.* (1967–1969), *Hawk* (1966), *Coronet Blue* (1967) and *NET Playhouse* (1970).

His feature film work includes costume design on *The French Connection* (1971), *Across 110th Street* (1972) and *The Exorcist* (1973).

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, bfidatadigipres.github.io.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Exorcist* (1973), Fi1m 89, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-exorcist.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

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

- *The Exorcist* (1973), Costume Design — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/the-exorcist.md)

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