---
name: "Marcel Escoffier"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marcel-escoffier"
fi1m_id: "marcel-escoffier"
imdb_id: "nm0260390"
tmdb_id: 9738
wikidata_id: "Q3225394"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "29 November 1910"
died: "9 January 2001"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-25T06:57:09.224087+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."
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# Marcel Escoffier

## Identity

Marcel Escoffier

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marcel-escoffier
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marcel-escoffier
- **IMDb ID:** nm0260390
- **TMDB ID:** 9738
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3225394
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3225394, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260390/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9738

Costume designer. Born 29 November 1910 in Monte Carlo, Monaco. Died 9 January 2001.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 29 November 1910, Monte Carlo, Monaco
- **Died:** 9 January 2001
- **Active:** 1950–1955
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 77 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Romance 3, Fantasy 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3225394, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260390/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/9738

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Orpheus*](https://film.one/film/orpheus.md) (82), [*Senso*](https://film.one/film/senso.md) (79)

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## Biography

Marcel Escoffier (29 November 1910 – 9 January 2001) was a Monégasque-French costume designer. Born in Monte Carlo, he studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, specialising in historical costumes.

He began his film career as assistant to Christian Bérard and created costumes, often with him, for Jean Cocteau’s *La Belle et la Bête* (1946) and *Orphée* (1950). He worked repeatedly with Christian-Jaque, Jean Delannoy and others on historical films, and collaborated with Luchino Visconti on *Senso* (1954), Max Ophüls on *Lola Montès* (1955) and Franco Zeffirelli on the television series *Jesus of Nazareth* (1977). His credits also include *Les Misérables* (1958) and *Mayerling* (1968). Escoffier designed for theatre, including two Broadway productions, and for opera.

*Sources: cinema.encyclopedie.personnalites.bifi.fr, fr.wikipedia.org, treccani.it.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Lola Montès* (1955), Fi1m 81, Costumer — [page](https://film.one/film/lola-montes.md)
- *Senso* (1954), Fi1m 79, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/senso.md)
- *Orpheus* (1950), Fi1m 82, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/orpheus.md)

## Complete filmography (35)

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

- *La Bohème* (1979), Costume Designer
- *Lorenzaccio* (1977), Costume Designer
- *Jesus of Nazareth* (1977), series, Costume Design
- *The Voyage* (1974), Costume Design
- *Mayerling* (1968), Costume Designer
- *Phèdre* (1968), Costume Design
- *Woman Times Seven* (1967), Costume Design
- *The Head of the Family* (1967), Costume Design
- *La mujer perdida* (1966), Costume Design
- *Lady L* (1965), Costume Design
- *La Bohème - Teatro alla Scala* (1965), Costume Design
- *Time of Indifference* (1964), Costume Design
- *Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II* (1964), Costume Design
- *Madame* (1961), Costume Design
- *Blood and Roses* (1960), Costume Design
- *The Big Night* (1959), Costume Design
- *Les Misérables* (1958), Costume Design
- *Lovers of Paris* (1957), Costume Design
- *Michael Strogoff* (1956), Costume Designer
- *Fernandel the Dressmaker* (1956), Costume Design
- *Lola Montès* (1955), Costumer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/lola-montes.md)
- *The Beautiful Otero* (1954), Costume Design
- *Senso* (1954), Costume Design — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/senso.md)
- *Daughters of Destiny* (1954), Costume Designer
- *Imperial Violets* (1952), Costume Design
- *God Needs Men* (1950), Costume Designer
- *Orpheus* (1950), Costume Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/orpheus.md)
- *Singoalla* (1949), Costume Design
- *The Storm Within* (1948), Costume Design
- *The Eagle with Two Heads* (1948), Costume Design
- *Rocambole* (1948), Costume Design
- *The Queen's Lover* (1948), Costume Design
- *Beauty and the Beast* (1946), Costume Design
- *The Idiot* (1946), Costume Design
- *Carmen* (1944), Costume Design

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Tony Award for Best Costume Design 1963: Tony Award for Best Costume Design (nominated)

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

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