Andrew Mollo is a British expert on military uniforms that has led him into a career in motion pictures and as an author of various books on military uniforms. He is the brother of costume designer and historical consultant John Mollo

John Mollo

John Mollo is a British costume designer and book author, most known for his Oscar-winning costume design for the Star Wars film series. He is the older brother of Andrew Mollo.-Biography:...

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Mollo was approached by Kevin Brownlow

Kevin Brownlow

Kevin Brownlow is a filmmaker, film historian, television documentary-maker, author, and Academy Award recipient. Brownlow is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era. Brownlow became interested in silent film at the age of eleven. This interest grew into a career spent...

 for assistance on his film It Happened Here

It Happened Here

It Happened Here is a 1966 British film, directed by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo. It is set in an alternate history in which Nazi Germany successfully invades and occupies the United Kingdom during World War II.-Setting:...

(released 1966) that led Mollo into co-writing, co-directing and co-producing the project. Mollo's uniform expertise led him to be a technical consultant on such films as Dr. Zhivago and The Eagle Has Landed

The Eagle Has Landed

The Eagle Has Landed is a book by Jack Higgins set during World War II. It first published in 1975. It was made into a film of the same name in 1976 starring Michael Caine...

. Mollo also co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed with Kevin Brownlow the film Winstanley

Winstanley (film)

Winstanley is the title of a film made in 1975 in the UK by Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, based on the 1961 David Caute novel Comrade Jacob....

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He returned to art direction with Xtro

Xtro

Xtro is a low-budget British science fiction horror film made in 1982 and directed by Harry Bromley Davenport and co-produced by Bob Shaye.-Plot:...

and production design of Dance With a Stranger

Dance with a Stranger

Dance with a Stranger is a 1985 British drama film, directed by Mike Newell. Telling the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain in the fifties, this moving biographical British film won critical acclaim, and brought particular notice to the careers of both Miranda Richardson...

(1985). He later was production designer

Production designer

In film and television, a production designer is the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as films, TV programs, music videos or adverts. Production designers have one of the key creative roles in the creation of motion pictures and television. Working directly with the...

 for the Sharpe

Sharpe (TV series)

Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean about Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes are based on the books...

and Hornblower

Hornblower (TV series)

Hornblower is the umbrella title of a series of television drama programmes based on C. S. Forester's novels about the fictional character Horatio Hornblower, a Royal Naval officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars....

TV series.

Mollo has written a large number of books on 20th Century military uniforms and the men and women who wore them.

External links

• Andrew Mollo at IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0597081/
• Andrew Mollo at Amazon (books) http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Andrew%20Mollo&page=1