---
name: "May Routh"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/may-routh"
fi1m_id: "may-routh"
imdb_id: "nm0746132"
tmdb_id: 14901
wikidata_id: "Q112730843"
roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "12 June 1934"
died: "2 June 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-04T18:31:32.805674+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."
---

# May Routh

## Identity

May Routh

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/may-routh
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** may-routh
- **IMDb ID:** nm0746132
- **TMDB ID:** 14901
- **Wikidata ID:** Q112730843
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Routh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112730843, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746132/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14901

Costume designer. Born 12 June 1934 in Jabalpur, British India. Died 2 June 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 12 June 1934, Jabalpur, British India
- **Died:** 2 June 2022
- **Active:** 1976–1998
- **Also known as:** Ida May Routh
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 83 (2), 1980s 80 (1), 1990s 80 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 77 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Fantasy 2, Action 1, Crime 1, Romance 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $171m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Routh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112730843, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0746132/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14901

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Man Who Fell to Earth*](https://film.one/film/the-man-who-fell-to-earth.md) (82)
- **Apple TV:** [*Ronin*](https://film.one/film/ronin.md) (80)
- **Disney+:** [*Splash*](https://film.one/film/splash.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

May Routh, also credited as Ida May Routh, was a British-American costume designer. She was born on 12 July 1934 in Jabalpur, British India, and studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London.

Routh began her career as a fashion illustrator before working as an assistant costume designer on *Oh! What a Lovely War* (1969). Her first credited work as costume designer was on *The Man Who Fell to Earth* (1976). Other credits include *Being There* (1979), *Splash* (1984), *Newsies* (1992), *Ronin* (1998) and *Reindeer Games* (2000). She collaborated frequently with director John Frankenheimer and received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for *Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter* (1991) and *Andersonville* (1996).

She married production designer Brian Eatwell in 1983. Routh died on 1 June 2022 in Los Angeles.

*Sources: hollywoodreporter.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Ronin* (1998), Fi1m 80, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/ronin.md)
- *Splash* (1984), Fi1m 80, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/splash.md)
- *Being There* (1979), Fi1m 84, Costume Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/being-there.md)
- *The Man Who Fell to Earth* (1976), Fi1m 82, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-who-fell-to-earth.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *Helter Skelter* (2004), Costume Design
- *Ambush* (2001), Costume Design
- *Reindeer Games* (2000), Costume Design
- *Ronin* (1998), Costume Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/ronin.md)
- *George Wallace* (1997), Costume Designer
- *George Wallace* (1997), series, Costume Designer
- *A Face to Die For* (1996), Costume Designer
- *Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald* (1993), Costume Design
- *Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage* (1993), Costume Design
- *Newsies* (1992), Costume Design
- *Blood River* (1991), Costume Design
- *Caddyshack II* (1988), Costume Design
- *Morons from Outer Space* (1985), Costume Designer
- *Splash* (1984), Costume Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/splash.md)
- *My Favorite Year* (1982), Costume Design
- *Ghost Story* (1981), Costume Design
- *First Family* (1980), Costume Design
- *Being There* (1979), Costume Designer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/being-there.md)
- *Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band* (1978), Costume Design
- *The Man Who Fell to Earth* (1976), Costume Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-man-who-fell-to-earth.md)
- *The Three Musketeers* (1973), Costume Illustrator

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