Molly Arbuthnot

Molly Irene Frances Weeks was born on 19 December 1908 in Oxfordshire, England.
She joined Hammer in 1952 and remained with the company until they left Bray Studios in November 1966. Among the most notable costumes she designed were the spacesuit worn by the doomed astronaut Victor Carrion in The Quatermass Xperiment, the lengthy black coat worn by Christopher Lee’s Creature in The Curse of Frankenstein and Dracula’s cape.
Molly was the sister of Hammer production Manager, Don Weeks.
Molly Arbuthnot died in Surrey, England on 31 October 2001, she was 92.
Molly Arbuthnot’s Hammer Productions (53)
Year Released | Production | Role |
1952 | Never Look Back | Wardrobe |
1953 | Blood Orange | Wardrobe Mistress |
1954 | The Stranger Came Home | Wardrobe |
1954 | Face the Music | Wardrobe |
1954 | Mask of Dust | Wardrobe Mistress |
1954 | The Men of Sherwood Forest | Wardrobe Mistress |
1954 | Five Days | Wardrobe (Uncredited) |
1954 | 36 Hours | Wardrobe (Uncredited) |
1955 | Break in the Circle | Wardrobe Mistress |
1955 | The Lyons in Paris | Wardrobe |
1955 | Murder by Proxy | Wardrobe |
1955 | The Quatermass Xperiment | Wardrobe |
1955 | Third Party Risk | Wardrobe |
1956 | Women Without Men | Wardrobe |
1956 | X - The Unknown | Wardrobe |
1957 | The Abominable Snowman | Wardrobe |
1957 | Danger List | Wardrobe |
1957 | The Steel Bayonet | Wardrobe |
1957 | The Curse of Frankenstein | Costume (Uncredited) |
1958 | The Camp on Blood Island | Wardrobe |
1958 | Clean Sweep | Wardrobe |
1958 | Dracula | Wardrobe |
1958 | Further Up the Creek | Wardrobe |
1958 | The Snorkel | Wardrobe |
1959 | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Wardrobe |
1959 | I Only Arsked! | Wardrobe |
1959 | The Man Who Could Cheat Death | Wardrobe |
1959 | The Mummy | Wardrobe Mistress |
1959 | Ten Seconds to Hell | Wardrobe |
1959 | The Ugly Duckling | Wardrobe Mistress |
1959 | Yesterday’s Enemy | Wardrobe Mistress |
1960 | The Brides of Dracula | Wardrobe Mistress |
1960 | Never Take Sweets from a Stranger | Wardrobe Mistress |
1960 | Passport to China | Wardrobe Mistress |
1960 | The Stranglers of Bombay | Wardrobe Mistress |
1960 | The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll | Wardrobe Mistress |
1961 | The Curse of the Werewolf | Wardrobe Mistress |
1961 | The Shadow of the Cat | Wardrobe Supervisor |
1961 | The Terror of the Tongs | Wardrobe Mistress |
1961 | Watch it Sailor | Wardrobe Supervisor |
1962 | Captain Clegg | Wardrobe Supervisor |
1962 | The Phantom of the Opera | Wardrobe Supervisor |
1962 | The Pirates of Blood River | Wardrobe Supervisor |
1963 | Cash on Demand | Wardrobe Supervisor |
1963 | The Damned | Wardrobe Supervisor |
1963 | Maniac | Wardrobe Supervisor |
1963 | The Scarlet Blade | Wardrobe Supervisor (Uncredited) |
1964 | The Kiss of the Vampire | Wardrobe Supervisor |
1964 | Paranoiac | Wardrobe Supervisor |
1966 | The Old Dark House | Wardrobe Supervisor |
1966 | The Witches | Wardrobe Supervisor |
1967 | The Mummy's Shroud | Wardrobe Mistress |