{"id":21194,"date":"2026-07-29T18:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=21194"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:30:43","slug":"somewhere-in-time-costume-designer-was-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=21194","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Somewhere in Time\u2019 Costume Designer Was 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJean-Pierre Dorl\u00e9ac, the costume designer who earned an Oscar nomination for his work on <em>Somewhere in Time<\/em>, the 1980 romantic fantasy that starred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/christopher-reeve\/\" id=\"auto-tag_christopher-reeve_1\" data-tag=\"christopher-reeve\">Christopher Reeve<\/a> and Jane Seymour, has died. He was 83.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDorl\u00e9ac died Thursday of natural causes at his Hollywood Hills home, a family spokesperson announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFor television, Dorl\u00e9ac won Emmys in 1979 for his costume designs for the ABC sci-fi series <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em> and in 2001 for the AMC dark comedy <em>The Lot<\/em>, set in 1930s Hollywood. He was nominated nine other times, four of those for NBC\u2019s time-traveling <em>Quantum Leap<\/em> (he worked on all four seasons of the show, from 1989-93).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tStarting in 1977, Dorl\u00e9ac also designed for series including <em>Blansky\u2019s Beauties<\/em>, <em>Tales of the Gold Monkey<\/em>, <em>Manimal<\/em>, <em>The Greatest American Hero<\/em>, <em>Airwolf<\/em>, <em>Masquerade<\/em>, <em>Berrenger\u2019s<\/em> and <em>Matlock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHis big-screen r\u00e9sum\u00e9 included <em>Buck Rogers in the 25th Century<\/em> (1979), <em>The Blue Lagoon<\/em> (1980), <em>Heart and Souls<\/em> (1993), <em>The Only Thrill<\/em> (1997), <em>Walking to the Waterline<\/em> (1998) and <em>In Enemy Hands<\/em> (2004).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDorl\u00e9ac was born on April 12, 1943, in Toulon, France, to an American military service member stationed with his family in Europe. He studied at the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts in France, and after his family moved back to the U.S., he started his career as an actor in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhen one of his theater productions was looking for a costume designer, he grabbed that opportunity, which led him to design the costumes for <em>Marat\/Sade<\/em> in 1973 for the West Coast Theatre in Los Angeles, earning a Drama Critics Circle Award. He would become a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of famed costume designer Edith Head\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAs an author, Dorl\u00e9ac wrote the 2005 novel <em>Abracabra Alakazama<\/em> and 2015\u2019s <em>The Naked Truth: An Irreverent Chronicle of Delirious Escapades<\/em>, a book about Hollywood and glamour in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSurvivors include his spouse, Gilberto Mello, whom he met 41 years ago in Rio de Janeiro. Per his wishes, there won\u2019t be a memorial service or funeral \u201cas he wanted people to remember him making jokes, telling stories, laughing and designing beautiful costumes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Pierre Dorl\u00e9ac, the costume designer who earned an Oscar nomination for his work on Somewhere in Time, the 1980 romantic fantasy that starred Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, has died. He was 83. Dorl\u00e9ac died Thursday of natural causes at his Hollywood Hills home, a family spokesperson announced. 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