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name: "Ralph Jester"
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roles: ["Costume designer"]
born: "10 July 1901"
died: "25 September 1991"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
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updated: "2026-09-20T03:15:34.300477+00:00"
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# Ralph Jester

Costume designer. Born 10 July 1901 in Tyler, Texas, USA. Died 25 September 1991.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Born:** 10 July 1901, Tyler, Texas, USA
- **Died:** 25 September 1991
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1918002

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Ten Commandments*](https://film.one/film/the-ten-commandments.md) (67)

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## Biography

Ralph Jester (10 July 1901 – 25 September 1991) was an American costume designer, sculptor and artist. Born in Tyler, Texas, he graduated from Yale University, where he edited the campus humour magazine The Yale Record, and studied at the American Academy in Fontainebleau, France, before moving to Hollywood.

By 1931 he was working as an art director and costume designer for Cecil B. DeMille and Paramount Pictures, collaborating closely with Edith Head. His early film work included sculpting for Cleopatra (1934). He is best known for his costume design on The Ten Commandments (1956), for which he received an Academy Award nomination shared with Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, John Jensen and Arnold Friberg. He also designed costumes for Omar Khayyam (1957), The Buccaneer (1958) and Solomon and Sheba (1959), earning a second Oscar nomination for the former.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Ten Commandments* (1956), Fi1m 67, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ten-commandments.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *Solomon and Sheba* (1959), Costume Design
- *Omar Khayyam* (1957), Costume Design
- *The Ten Commandments* (1956), Costume Design — Fi1m 67, [page](https://film.one/film/the-ten-commandments.md)
- *Abraham's Faith* (1948), Writer
- *Cleopatra* (1934), as Sculptor

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