Evangeline Harrison

Evangeline Harrison, also known as Vangie Harrison and Evangeline Averre, is a British costume designer with over forty credits in television and film. Her best-known works include Get Carter (1971), Superman III (1983) and the series Bramwell (1995–98). She was nominated for a BAFTA TV Craft award for Best Costume Design for Churchill: The Wilderness Years in 1982.[1]

Born in 1934, Evangeline studied at Ealing Art School, and then the Central School of Art in London. Her early theatre work included a summer season at Stratford-Upon-Avon and a longer period at Glyndebourne opera. She then started to design costumes for commercials. Harrison's first film costume design work was as assistant to Jocelyn Rickards on Blow Up (1966).[2]

Costume design career

Harrison's notable costume design projects include:

  • Get Carter (1971), in which Harrison payed homage to film noir through "attentive design and costume work".[3]
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray at Greenwich Theatre (1975)[4]
  • The Ritz (1976 dir. Richard Lester), an adaptation from stageplay to film.[5]  
  • Love for Lydia, a TV miniseries shown on ITV in 1977. Reviewer Patrick Campbell said "a great deal of the credit" for the show’s success must go to Harrison and co-designer May Patley "for the authenticity of the period ... the splendid costumes ... the meticulous attention to detail and the loving research".[6]
  • Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981), starring Siân Philips as Churchill's wife Clementine. Harrison used mostly original 1930s dresses for Philip’s 52 costume changes.[7]
  • A Christmas Carol (1984) . Harrison's costumes for this Dickens adaptation used many details from the story’s Victorian illustrator, John Leech. The New York Times observed, “Edward Woodward’s Ghost of Christmas Present, in particular, is the very image of the book’s rather bacchanalian figure in flowing royal robes and crown”.[8]
  • Lady Chatterley (1993) was a miniseries adaptation of D H Lawrence’s novel, starring Joely Richardson in the title role and directed by Ken Russell.[9]

Personal life

In 1958, she married art director and production designer Philip Harrison. They later divorced. In 2001 she married sound supervisor John Ralph.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Awards Search". Bafta. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
  2. ^ "The British Entertainment History Project | Evangeline Harrison |". historyproject.org.uk. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
  3. ^ Street, Sarah; Johnston, Keith M.; Frith, Paul; Rickards, Carolyn (2021). Colour films in Britain: the Eastmancolor revolution. London ; New York, NY: British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1-911239-59-8.
  4. ^ Herbert, Ian (1977). Who's who in the theatre : a biographical record of the contemporary stage. Internet Archive. London : Pitman ; Detroit : Gale Research. ISBN 978-0-273-00163-8.
  5. ^ Tibbetts, John C.; Welsh, James M.; Tibbetts, John C., eds. (2001). The encyclopedia of stage plays into film. The Facts on File film reference library. New York, NY: Facts on File. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-8160-4155-8.
  6. ^ Campbell, Patrick (22 September 1977). "Lydia Slow but Looks Promising". The Stage: 16.
  7. ^ Elliott, Pat (17 January 1981). "Churchill – Played by a non-smoker!". Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser. p. 13.
  8. ^ O'Connor, John J. (1984-12-17). "TV REVIEW; GEORGE SCOTT IN 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-04-10.
  9. ^ Lanza, Joseph (2007-08-01). Phallic Frenzy: Ken Russell and His Films. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-56976-482-4.
  10. ^ Maxford, Howard (2019-11-08). Hammer Complete: The Films, the Personnel, the Company. McFarland. p. 380. ISBN 978-1-4766-2914-8.
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