Indiana Jones’s Temple of Doom hat sells for £490,000 at auction

A hat worn by actor Harrison Ford in the second installment of the Indiana Jones film franchise has sold for nearly half a million pounds at auction.

A brown felt fedora – made especially for the film Temple of Doom – fetched $630,000 (£487,000) in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Other movie memorabilia was sold at the same time including props from Star Wars, Harry Potter and James Bond products.

Jones, an aspiring archeologist, is seen wearing a hat at the beginning of the film when he and his friends jump from a crashing plane in an inflatable raft.

At the time of the incident, he is on a plane with nightclub singer Wilhelmina “Willie” Scott, played by Kate Capshaw, and her 12-year-old friend, Short Round, played by Ke Huy Quan, as they flee the clutches of a Chinese gang. .

After the pilot is destroyed, the trio use a raft to fall from the plane, before sliding down the mountain.

The auction site said the hat was also used during additional filming on location for producer George Lucas.

The fedora was also worn by Ford’s stunt-double in the 1984 film, Dean Ferrandini, and was sold with previously unpublished photos of the now locally famous costumed criminal.

Ferrandini died last year. The hat came from his personal collection.

The brightly colored fedora was an update to the original featured in the first Indiana Jones film – Raiders Of The Lost Ark – which was crowned “best-seller” and the first, Propstore, the auction house, said.

Created by the Herbert Johnson Hat Company in London, the inner lining features the monogrammed gold letter “IJ”.

Also up for auction was a military helmet used in the 1983 Star Wars film Return Of The Jedi – which went for $315,000 (£243,000) – and a lightsaber used by Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter And The. Prisoner of Azkaban, which attracted a winning bid of $53,550 (£41,400).

Meanwhile, a suit worn by Daniel Craig in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall sold for $35,000 (£27,000).

Brandon Alinger, chief executive of Propstore, said the auction was “proud to connect so many fans with the pieces of history they value”.

The Indiana Jones hat fetched more than twice as much as another Temple of Doom fedora sold in 2021, which sold for $300,000 (£232,000), according to the Hollywood Reporter.