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Academy Award-winning costume designer John Mollo, best known for his work on Star Wars<\/em> and Chaplin<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n British born Mollo had a deep interest in historical military uniforms, leading to him being bought on as an adviser on a number of feature films – including Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon<\/em> and the Burt Lancaster drama Zulu Dawn<\/em> – before he became the lead costumer designer for a small sci-fi fantasy film directed by George Lucas, Star Wars<\/em> (1977). For his work on Star Wars<\/em>, Mr Mollo would receive the Oscar for Costume Design, and would go on to work on projects such as Ridley Scott’s Alien<\/em> (1979), Greystoke:The Legend Of Tarzan, Cry Freedom, Air America<\/em>, and Richard Attenborough’s Chaplin<\/em>.<\/p>\n Mr Mollo would receive another Academy Award for his costume work on Attenborough’s Gandhi<\/em>, in 1982.<\/p>\n John Mollo passed away on October 25th, aged 86.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Academy Award-winning costume designer John Mollo, best known for his work on Star Wars and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":48521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2.png",1162,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2-300x186.png",300,186,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2-768x476.png",640,397,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2-720x446.png",640,396,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2.png",1162,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2.png",1162,720,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2.png",1024,634,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2.png",540,335,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2.png",24,15,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2.png",48,30,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2.png",96,59,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2.png",150,93,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2.png",300,186,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/john_mollo_starwars_costume_sketchs_2-272x182.png",272,182,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/gettyimages-129042800_-_h_2017-720x406.jpg\")