Biography
May Routh, also credited as Ida May Routh, was a British-American costume designer. She was born on 12 July 1934 in Jabalpur, British India, and studied at Saint Martin's School of Art in London.
Routh began her career as a fashion illustrator before working as an assistant costume designer on Oh! What a Lovely War (1969). Her first credited work as costume designer was on The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). Other credits include Being There (1979), Splash (1984), Newsies (1992), Ronin (1998) and Reindeer Games (2000). She collaborated frequently with director John Frankenheimer and received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter (1991) and Andersonville (1996).
She married production designer Brian Eatwell in 1983. Routh died on 1 June 2022 in Los Angeles.
