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name: "Tony Dunsterville"
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roles: ["Costume designer"]
died: "21 August 2008"
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# Tony Dunsterville

Costume designer. Born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK. Died 21 August 2008.

## Details

- **Work:** Costume designer
- **Died:** 21 August 2008

## Biography

Tony Dunsterville (1937–2008) was a British special effects technician, model maker and animatronic engineer. He began in the art department on Gerry Anderson puppet productions before constructing models for *Superman* (1978).

He worked with Jim Henson's Creature Shop on *The Dark Crystal* (1982) and *Labyrinth* (1986), where he contributed to creature workshop teams and received a BAFTA nomination for Best Special Visual Effects. Dunsterville is credited as costume designer on *Batman* (1989) and with prosthetics on *Lifeforce* (1985). He also contributed to *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* (1988) and *High Spirits* (1988).

*Sources: imdb.com, watch.plex.tv, muppet.fandom.com, grokipedia.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Batman* (1989), Fi1m 77, Costume design — [page](https://film.one/film/batman.md)

## Also known for

- *Lifeforce* (1985), Prosthetics

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