Bafta-winning Goodfellas costume designer dies
Richard Bruno worked with Martin Scorsese
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Wednesday, 18, Jan 2012 12:04
By Neal Wallace
Richard Bruno, who won a Bafta for his costume work on Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, has died aged 87.
Over a three-decade career he worked on numerous films - many of them gangster flicks - including The Untouchables and Heaven Can Wait, reports Variety.
However, it was Bruno's work collaborating with Scorsese, on films like Raging Bull and The Color of Money that earned him global recognition. He was praised by the Costume Designers Guild as a "remarkably gifted designer".
Mary Rose, president of the board for the guild said Bruno was "always a professional, he was well respected by the industry and will be greatly missed by all of us".
His career began in 1965 as a costume designer for several low-budget movies before he got his break working on the 1973 Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand film The Way We Were, and 1974's Chinatown, which starred Jack Nicholson.
Total Film magazine named Goodfellas as the greatest movie of all time in a recent poll.