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- Birth nameDavid Neville Ffolkes
- David Ffolkes came to the United States as a set designer with Maurice Evans' Shakespeare company before World War II. When the War broke out, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the British Army and stationed in Singapore. He was captured at the fall of Singapore and spent three years in a Japanese prison camp in Burma, building a railway. After being released, he returned to the United States and taught scene and costume design at Boston College, before becoming the costume designer for Island in the Sun.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseMary Ffolkes(? - September 19, 1966) (his death)
- He won a Tony award in 1947 for his costumes for the play Henry VIII.
- Won Broadway's 1947 Tony Award as Best Scene Design for "Henry VIII."
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