Recent Obituaries, Classic Films Only

[CBHagman]

122. Movie poster artist Bill Gold, 97

You may not know the name but you definitely know the work. What an amazing career—from Casablanca to J. Edgar. What an amazing influence on our collective imaginations.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bill-gold-designer-of-movie-posters-that-helped-shape-hollywoods-mystique-dies-at-97/2018/05/28/ad8f532e-6038-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html?utm_term=.92dc3ed30cf6

From the above:

Although Mr. Gold worked mostly in New York, his artistry throughout a seven-decade career helped shape the mystique of Hollywood. The first poster he designed, after joining the Warner Bros. art department, was for “Yankee Doodle Dandy” (1942), starring James Cagney. His second job was “Casablanca.”

Mr. Gold later worked on many of Clint Eastwood’s projects and came out of retirement in 2011 to produce the poster for “J. Edgar,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio as FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.

“The first image you have of many of your favorite films,” Eastwood wrote in the introduction to a 2010 collection of Mr. Gold’s posters, “is probably a Bill Gold creation.”


https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/05/bill-gold-movie-posters

http://billgold.net/