Bill gold

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William "Bill" Gold (born January 3, 1921 in New York City , New York - † May 20, 2018 in Old Greenwich , Connecticut ) was an American graphic artist who designed several thousand movie posters from 1942 to 2011.

Life

Bill Gold studied illustration and design at New York's Pratt Institute . In 1941 he began his career in the advertising department of Warner Bros. Entertainment , where from 1947 he became the head of the drafting of the movie posters. From 1959 onwards, his younger brother Charlie helped him with his work before he left the business in 1987. Charlie died at the age of 75 in December 2003. Gold's other long-term partners included illustrator Bob Peak .

Bill Gold's first movie poster was for the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1942 . In his almost seventy-year career, several thousand such posters were created, including for some of the greatest classics in film history. Gold's most famous works include the posters for Casablanca and Uhrwerk Orange . From 1962 he ran his own company, Bill Gold Advertising . In 2011, at the age of 90, Gold retired as a graphic designer with the poster for Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar .

Bill Gold received the Hollywood Reporter's Lifetime Achievement Award for his achievements in the film industry . Gold was an active member of the Art Directors Club , the Society of Illustrators and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences .

Movie posters (selection)

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

After 2000

Web links

Commons : Bill Gold  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bill Gold, Iconic Master of the Movie Poster, Dies at 97 , accessed May 21, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Gold, bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gold, William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American graphic and poster artist
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH 20th May 2018
Place of death Old Greenwich , Connecticut