Jean-Pierre Dorléac, 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.
Dorléac died Thursday of natural causes at his Hollywood Hills home, a family spokesperson announced.
For television, Dorléac won Emmys in 1979 for his costume designs for the ABC sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica and in 2001 for the AMC dark comedy The Lot, set in 1930s Hollywood. He was nominated nine other times, four of those for NBC’s time-traveling Quantum Leap (he worked on all four seasons of the show, from 1989-93).
Starting in 1977, Dorléac also designed for series including Blansky’s Beauties, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Manimal, The Greatest American Hero, Airwolf, Masquerade, Berrenger’s and Matlock.
His big-screen résumé included Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), The Blue Lagoon (1980), Heart and Souls (1993), The Only Thrill (1997), Walking to the Waterline (1998) and In Enemy Hands (2004).
