Australians in Hollywood : Biographical Notes

John Truscott
John Truscott (1936-1993) was personally invited by Jack Warner to design costumes for Warner Bros' big budget Camelot (1967), starring Richard Harris and Vanessa Redgrave. Truscott was rewarded with two Oscars, one for costume design and one for art direction, at the time a unique double for an Australian. But financially Camelot was a disaster; it wildly exceeded its budget in many departments, including Truscott's. He would work on only one more Hollywood film – the Clint Eastwood/Lee Marvin musical Paint Your Wagon (1969) – before returning to Australia to forge a distinguished career in the Arts. In Melbourne he worked on productions for the Victorian State Opera, and designed the theatre interiors at the Victorian Arts Centre. He later directed site-scaping for Brisbane 's Expo '88 and served as artistic director for the Melbourne International Festival for the Arts from 1989 to 1991.

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