---
name: "Sue Yelland"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sue-yelland"
fi1m_id: "sue-yelland"
imdb_id: "nm0947382"
tmdb_id: 960135
roles: ["Costume designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-07T10:38:24.366258+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."
---

# Sue Yelland

## Identity

Sue Yelland

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sue-yelland
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sue-yelland
- **IMDb ID:** nm0947382
- **TMDB ID:** 960135
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947382/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/960135

Costume designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Active:** 1973–1982
- **Also known as:** Susan Yelland
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1970s 90 (1), 1980s 73 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 1, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Horror 1, Romance 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $217m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947382/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/960135

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Wicker Man*](https://film.one/film/the-wicker-man.md) (90)
- **HBO Max:** [*Superman II*](https://film.one/film/superman-ii.md) (74)

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

## Biography

Sue Yelland, also credited as Susan Yelland, is a British costume designer. Born in August 1936, she began working in film and television in the late 1960s, initially as a wardrobe supervisor on *Accident* (1967) and *Our Mother's House* (1967). She received her first solo costume design credit on the cult horror film *The Wicker Man* (1973).

Her subsequent credits include *Superman II* (1980), *Before the Rain* (1994) and the television miniseries *The Two Mrs. Grenvilles* (1987), for which she received a Primetime Emmy nomination. She has worked extensively in British television, with long-running credits on series such as *Kavanagh QC* (1995–1999).

*Sources: imdb.com, watch.plex.tv.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang* (1982), Fi1m 72, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/ptang-yang-kipperbang.md)
- *Superman II* (1980), Fi1m 74, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/superman-ii.md)
- *The Wicker Man* (1973), Fi1m 90, Costume Design, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wicker-man.md)

## Complete filmography (29)

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

- *Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut* (2006), Costume Design
- *A Line in the Sand* (2004), Costume Design
- *Lawrence of Arabia, the battle for the Arab world* (2003), series, Costume Designer
- *Kavanagh Q.C.* (1995), series, Costume Designer
- *The Deep Blue Sea* (1994), Costume Designer
- *Before the Rain* (1994), Costume Design
- *Hands of a Murderer* (1990), Costume Designer
- *Secret Weapon* (1990), Costume Design
- *The Two Mrs. Grenvilles* (1987), series, Costume Design
- *Coming Out of the Ice* (1982), Costume Design
- *P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang* (1982), Costume Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/ptang-yang-kipperbang.md)
- *Superman II* (1980), Costume Design — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/superman-ii.md)
- *The Prisoner of Zenda* (1979), Costume Design
- *The Adolescents* (1975), Costume Design
- *Alfie Darling* (1975), Costume Design
- *S*P*Y*S* (1974), Costume Design
- *The Wicker Man* (1973), Costume Design — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wicker-man.md)
- *I Want What I Want* (1972), Costume Design
- *200 Motels* (1971), Costume Design
- *When Eight Bells Toll* (1971), Costume Design
- *Zeppelin* (1971), Costume Design
- *A Severed Head* (1971), Costume Design
- *Figures in a Landscape* (1970), Costume Design
- *The Walking Stick* (1970), Costume Design
- *Secret Ceremony* (1968), Costume Design
- *The Strange Affair* (1968), Costume Design
- *Sebastian* (1968), Costume Consultant
- *Our Mother's House* (1967), Wardrobe Designer
- *Accident* (1967), Wardrobe Supervisor

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