Bill Gold passes away

Eisenhower

Bill Gold, artist to some of the most well known posters in movie history died in Connecticut at the age of 97. From Casablanca to The Unforgiven, Gold is credited with thousands of posters creations. 

Post your favorite Bill Gold posters....

one if my all time favorites. Nothing subtle about this message....

HereComesMongo

http://billgold.net/

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Many effusive articles out today:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/20/obituaries/bill-gold-dead-movie-posters.html

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/bill-gold-iconic-movie-posters/

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Creative director for 2,000+ MPs!!!

On any given poster Gold might have taken the photograph, drawn the illustration, designed the typeface and set the colours. Or he might have done none of those things. That’s part of the reason why people get confused about what a creative director does.

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“Classic movie posters are memorable; they are held in as much affection as the movies themselves,” Lars Trodson wrote on the film website The Roundtable in 2009. “When a classic movie is matched by a classic poster, you’re held in the thrall of a distinct and pleasurable memory. The poster image becomes part of the movie experience, and is, in the end, another of the reasons why movies are so essential to us.”

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Best image gallery today (with helpful captions):

https://www.theguardian.com/film/gallery/2018/may/21/bill-gold-film-posters-casablanca-exorcist



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Unpublished/new to me:

theartofmovieposters

I meant to post to this a while back and forgot...soo many great ones.
Two of my favourites that I own:

Pancho

I've been trying to do some artist research lately and the info is pretty thinly spread and hard to nose out. The info about Bill Gold here is a great example - I recently contacted eMovieposter to tell them that Bill was responsible for The Exorcist and they replied that there isn't enough detail out there to say if Bill actually drew / painted the artwork, so they can't update their database until something more concrete comes to light.

Bruce

Pancho we don't list "designers" except for Saul Bass, and on unsigned art we look for REALLY concrete information. There are so MANY misattributions all over the Internet, and we don't want to contribute to that, so we believe in better safe than sorry.