Bill Gold was born on January 3, 1921, in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Rose (Sachs) and Paul Gold.[3] After graduating from Samuel J. Tilden High School, he won a scholarship and studied illustration and design at Pratt Institute in New York.[3][4] In 1941, he married Pearl Damses. They had two children and later divorced.[3]
Early career
Gold began his professional design career in 1941, in the advertising department of Warner Bros. His first poster was for the James Cagney musical feature film Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1942, followed soon after by the poster for Casablanca. He was then drafted into the US Army where he was involved in the production of training films.[3] Following his discharge in 1946, he resumed his career designing posters for Warner Bros. where he became head of poster design in 1947.[3][5]
In 1959 his brother Charlie joined him in the business, and they formed BG Charles to do the film trailers.[5] Charlie operated BG Charles in Los Angeles, while Bill operated in New York City. In 1987, Charlie left the business and retired to Vermont. Charlie Gold died at age 75 on December 25, 2003.[citation needed]
Bill Gold Advertising
In 1962, following the dissolution of the Warner Bros. New York advertising unit, Gold created Bill Gold Advertising in New York City.[5] In 1997 Bill moved the company to Stamford, Connecticut, and continued his business, producing posters for every film Clint Eastwood produced, directed, and/or acted in, among others.[6] In 1994 Bill was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Hollywood Reporter. Richard Benjamin was the MC for the ceremony at the Directors Guild, and Clint Eastwood presented the award to Bill Gold on behalf of The Hollywood Reporter.[3]
In his later years, Gold resided in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. He married Susan Cornfield in 1989.[3] He retired from his advertising business in 2003, but designed one last poster in 2011, for Eastwood's film J. Edgar.[3] A limited-edition, oversized one-volume retrospective[8][9] was published in January 2011 in coordination with his 90th birthday. He died from complications of Alzheimer's disease at Greenwich Hospital on May 20, 2018, at the age of 97.[3]
Film posters
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bill Gold.
Gold's US theatrical release poster for Casablanca (1942)
Gold's original theatrical release poster for A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
After his first film project, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Gold collaborated with the American film industry's top film directors and film producers. Especially fruitful was Gold's relationship with the illustrator Bob Peak. Gold's work spanned eight decades and was involved in the creation of over 2,000 posters.[6]
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^"About Bill". go4thegolds. Retrieved December 20, 2010 – via web.mac.com.[permanent dead link]
^ abc"Bill Gold, designer of such iconic movie postersas Alien and The Exorcist, dies age 97". Syfy.com. May 21, 2018. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
^ ab"R.I.P. Bill Gold, designer of iconic movies posters from Casablanca to The Exorcist". AVClub. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
^. BillGold.net. Archived from the original on July 26, 2018. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
^Gold, Bill; Nourmand, Tony; Frayling, Christopher (October 2010). Bill Gold: Posterworks. Reel Art Press. ISBN9780956648716. OCLC 698587150.
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^ abcdefgh. BillGold.net. Archived from the original on May 25, 2018. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
Further reading
American Film Institute (February 12, 2016). "Meet Bill Gold: The Man Behind the Most Iconic Movie Posters Ever". The New York Times. Bill Gold reflects on his art and his career.
Block, Alex Ben (May 16, 2011). "Secrets Behind Hollywood's Greatest Movie Posters". The Hollywood Reporter. This feature article about Gold's career has a link to fourteen images of his posters.
Smith, Ian Haydn (2018). Selling the Movie: The Art of the Movie Poster. London: White Lion Publishing. ISBN978-0-71124-024-7.
Trodson, Lars (October 26, 2009). "The Gold Standard: Roundtable Pictures Interviews Legendary Movie Poster Designer Bill Gold". Roundtable Pictures, Inc.
External links
1994 Hollywood Reporter Lifetime Achievement Award video[permanent dead link]
Meet Bill Gold: The Man Behind the Most Iconic Movie Posters Ever
April 23, 2023
bill, gold, hungarian, born, american, businessman, professor, bela, gold, william, gold, january, 1921, 2018, american, graphic, designer, best, known, thousands, film, poster, designs, during, year, career, gold, worked, with, some, hollywood, greatest, film. For Hungarian born American businessman and professor see Bela Gold William Gold January 3 1921 May 20 2018 was an American graphic designer best known for thousands of film poster designs 1 2 During his 70 year career Gold worked with some of Hollywood s greatest filmmakers including Laurence Olivier Clint Eastwood Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Elia Kazan and Ridley Scott His first poster was for Yankee Doodle Dandy 1942 and his final work was for J Edgar 2011 Among Gold s most famous posters are those for Casablanca The Exorcist and The Sting Bill GoldBornWilliam Gold 1921 01 03 January 3 1921Brooklyn New York City U S DiedMay 20 2018 2018 05 20 aged 97 Greenwich Connecticut U S Alma materPratt InstituteOccupation s Graphic designer film poster artistYears active1941 2003 2011SpousesPearl Tamses m 1941 divorced wbr Susan Cornfield m 1989 wbr Children2 Contents 1 Early life 2 Early career 3 Bill Gold Advertising 4 Later life 5 Film posters 5 1 1940s 5 2 1950s 5 3 1960s 5 4 1970s 5 5 1980s 5 6 1990s 5 7 2000s 5 8 2010s 6 Collaborating directors 7 Collaborating producers 8 Best Picture Winners 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksEarly life EditBill Gold was born on January 3 1921 in Brooklyn New York the son of Rose Sachs and Paul Gold 3 After graduating from Samuel J Tilden High School he won a scholarship and studied illustration and design at Pratt Institute in New York 3 4 In 1941 he married Pearl Damses They had two children and later divorced 3 Early career EditGold began his professional design career in 1941 in the advertising department of Warner Bros His first poster was for the James Cagney musical feature film Yankee Doodle Dandy in 1942 followed soon after by the poster for Casablanca He was then drafted into the US Army where he was involved in the production of training films 3 Following his discharge in 1946 he resumed his career designing posters for Warner Bros where he became head of poster design in 1947 3 5 In 1959 his brother Charlie joined him in the business and they formed BG Charles to do the film trailers 5 Charlie operated BG Charles in Los Angeles while Bill operated in New York City In 1987 Charlie left the business and retired to Vermont Charlie Gold died at age 75 on December 25 2003 citation needed Bill Gold Advertising EditIn 1962 following the dissolution of the Warner Bros New York advertising unit Gold created Bill Gold Advertising in New York City 5 In 1997 Bill moved the company to Stamford Connecticut and continued his business producing posters for every film Clint Eastwood produced directed and or acted in among others 6 In 1994 Bill was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Hollywood Reporter Richard Benjamin was the MC for the ceremony at the Directors Guild and Clint Eastwood presented the award to Bill Gold on behalf of The Hollywood Reporter 3 Bill Gold was a member of the Society of Illustrators the Art Directors Club and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 7 Later life EditIn his later years Gold resided in Old Greenwich Connecticut He married Susan Cornfield in 1989 3 He retired from his advertising business in 2003 but designed one last poster in 2011 for Eastwood s film J Edgar 3 A limited edition oversized one volume retrospective 8 9 was published in January 2011 in coordination with his 90th birthday He died from complications of Alzheimer s disease at Greenwich Hospital on May 20 2018 at the age of 97 3 Film posters Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bill Gold Gold s US theatrical release poster for Casablanca 1942 Gold s original theatrical release poster for A Streetcar Named Desire 1951 After his first film project Yankee Doodle Dandy Gold collaborated with the American film industry s top film directors and film producers Especially fruitful was Gold s relationship with the illustrator Bob Peak Gold s work spanned eight decades and was involved in the creation of over 2 000 posters 6 1940s Edit Yankee Doodle Dandy 10 1942 Casablanca 10 1942 Night and Day 1946 The Big Sleep 1946 Escape Me Never 1947 Winter Meeting 1948 Rope 10 1948 11 1950s Edit Strangers on a Train 1951 A Streetcar Named Desire 10 1951 Dial M for Murder 10 1954 The Silver Chalice 1954 East of Eden 1955 Mister Roberts 1955 Baby Doll 10 1955 Giant 1956 The Lone Ranger 1956 Moby Dick 1956 The Searchers 1956 The Wrong Man 1956 A Face in the Crowd 1957 The James Dean Story 1957 The Pajama Game 1957 The Prince and the Showgirl 10 1957 Top Secret Affair 1957 The Old Man and the Sea 10 1958 11 1960s Edit Splendor in the Grass 1961 Gypsy 1962 The Music Man 1962 My Fair Lady 1964 Robin and the 7 Hoods 1964 Sex and the Single Girl 1964 The Great Race 1965 Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf 1966 Bonnie and Clyde 10 1967 Camelot 1967 Cool Hand Luke 10 1967 The Fox 10 1967 Wait Until Dark 1967 Barbarella 10 1968 Bullitt 10 1968 Funny Girl 1968 A Dream of Kings 1969 The Illustrated Man 10 1969 The Wild Bunch 10 1969 11 1970s Edit Last of the Mobile Hot Shots 1970 No Blade of Grass 1970 Ryan s Daughter 1970 Soldier Blue 1970 Start the Revolution Without Me 1970 The Go Between 1970 There Was a Crooked Man 1970 There s a Girl in My Soup 1970 Dorian Gray 1970 A Clockwork Orange Early Draft 1971 Woodstock 1970 Diamonds are Forever 1971 Fiddler on the Roof 1970 Get Carter 1970 Dirty Harry 10 1971 Klute 10 1971 McCabe amp Mrs Miller 1971 Medicine Ball Caravan 1971 Deliverance 10 1972 Jeremiah Johnson 1972 Joe Kidd 1972 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean 1972 Lady Sings the Blues 1972 The Trial of the Catonsville Nine 1972 What s Up Doc 1972 Day for Night 1973 The Exorcist 10 1973 High Plains Drifter 1973 Magnum Force 1973 O Lucky Man 1973 Oklahoma Crude 1973 Papillon 1973 Pat Garrett amp Billy the Kid 1973 Scarecrow 1973 Steelyard Blues 1973 The Sting 10 1973 The Way We Were 1973 The Front Page 1974 Law and Disorder 1974 Mame 1974 99 and 44 100 Dead 1974 The Odessa File 1974 The Sugarland Express 1974 The Yakuza 1974 Zandy s Bride 1974 Barry Lyndon 10 1975 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 The Drowning Pool 1975 Funny Lady 1975 Hard Times 1975 Mahogany 1975 Mister Quilp 1975 The Prisoner of Second Avenue 1975 Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins 1975 Return of the Pink Panther 1975 Rooster Cogburn 1975 Rosebud 1975 The Great Waldo Pepper 1975 The Hindenburg 1975 The Wilby Conspiracy 1975 A Matter of Time 1976 A Star Is Born 1976 All the President s Men 1976 The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox 1976 The Enforcer 1976 Fellini s Casanova 1976 Gable and Lombard 1976 Marathon Man 10 1976 The Outlaw Josey Wales 10 1976 Portnoy s Complaint 1976 The Ritz 1976 W C Fields and Me 1976 A Piece of the Action 1977 Exorcist II The Heretic 1977 Fun with Dick and Jane 1977 Greased Lightning 1977 Julia 1977 Smokey and the Bandit 1977 The Gauntlet 1977 The Sentinel 1977 Twilight s Last Gleaming 1977 Bloodbrothers 1978 California Suite 1978 Convoy 1978 The Invasion of the Body Snatchers 10 1978 Movie Movie 1978 Same Time Next Year 1978 Goin Coconuts 1978 The Wiz 1978 Agatha 1979 Chapter Two 1979 Escape from Alcatraz 1979 The Great Santini 1979 Hair 1979 Scavenger Hunt 1979 The Bell Jar 1979 The Promise 1979 11 1980s Edit Any Which Way You Can 1980 Bronco Billy 1980 The Dogs of War 1980 Fame 1980 Heaven s Gate 1980 The Jazz Singer 1980 The Last Married Couple in America 1980 Little Miss Marker 1980 The Long Riders 1980 The Nude Bomb 1980 Somewhere in Time 1980 The Stunt Man 1980 Those Lips Those Eyes 1980 Clash of the Titans 1981 Endless Love 1981 For Your Eyes Only 10 1981 The Four Seasons 1981 Hard Country 1981 On Golden Pond 1981 The Funhouse 1981 Deathtrap 1982 Evil Under the Sun 1982 Firefox 1982 Honkytonk Man 1982 I the Jury 1982 My Favorite Year 1982 Breathless 1983 Cross Creek 1983 Eddie Macon s Run 1983 Gorky Park 1983 High Road to China 1983 Never Say Never Again 1983 The Sting II 1983 Sudden Impact 1983 Champions 1984 City Heat 1984 Harry amp Son 1984 Splash 1984 The River 1984 Tightrope 1984 Pale Rider 1985 Best Shot 1986 Heartbreak Ridge 1986 Platoon 1986 Hamburger Hill 1987 Orphans 1987 The Believers 1987 The Untouchables 1987 Bird 10 1988 Colors 1988 The Dead Pool 1988 Mississippi Burning 1988 Moonwalker 1988 The Accused 1988 Thelonious Monk Straight No Chaser 1988 Great Balls of Fire 1989 Night Visitor 1989 Pink Cadillac 1989 11 1990s Edit White Hunter Black Heart 1990 Reversal of Fortune 1990 Funny About Love 1990 State of Grace 1990 The Field 1990 The Rookie 1990 F X2 1991 Unforgiven 10 1992 In the Line of Fire 1993 A Perfect World 1993 The Bridges of Madison County 1995 The Stars Fell on Henrietta 1995 The Old Curiosity Shop 1995 Absolute Power 1997 True Crime 1999 11 2000s Edit Space Cowboys 11 2000 Mystic River 10 2003 2010s Edit J Edgar 11 2011 Collaborating directors EditClint Eastwood Alfred Hitchcock Stanley Kubrick Ridley Scott Sidney Lumet Elia Kazan John Schlesinger George Roy Hill Robert Altman William Friedkin Arthur Penn Milos Forman Peter Yates Michael Curtiz Ron Howard Joshua Logan John Boorman Don Siegel Vincente Minnelli Alan J Pakula Herbert Ross Francois Truffaut Buddy Van Horn Richard BenjaminCollaborating producers EditClint Eastwood Jack L Warner Hal B Wallis Tennessee Williams Philip D Antoni Tony Bill Stanley Kubrick Martin Bregman Samuel Z Arkoff Walter Hill Ray Harryhausen Richard D Zanuck Andrew Lazar Robert Lorenz Jay Presson Allen Tom Rooker David Valdes Bob Daley Jon KilikBest Picture Winners EditCasablanca 1942 My Fair Lady 1964 The Sting 1973 Ordinary People 1980 Platoon 1986 Unforgiven 1992 References Edit Murphy Mekado December 3 2010 Poster Master With a Cool Hand The New York Times Iconic Hollywood film poster creator Bill Gold dies BBC News May 21 2018 Retrieved May 21 2018 a b c d e f g h i McFadden Robert D May 20 2018 Bill Gold 97 Whose Posters Captured Movie Magic Is Dead The New York Times Retrieved May 21 2018 About Bill go4thegolds Retrieved December 20 2010 via web mac com permanent dead link a b c Bill Gold designer of such iconic movie postersas Alien and The Exorcist dies age 97 Syfy com May 21 2018 Retrieved May 22 2018 a b R I P Bill Gold designer of iconic movies posters from Casablanca to The Exorcist AVClub Retrieved May 22 2018 Bill Gold BillGold net Archived from the original on July 26 2018 Retrieved May 22 2018 Gold Bill Nourmand Tony Frayling Christopher October 2010 Bill Gold Posterworks Reel Art Press ISBN 9780956648716 OCLC 698587150 Bill Gold reelartpress com ReelArt Press Archived from the original on October 21 2010 Retrieved November 30 2010 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab The 30 best Bill Gold movie posters Indiewire May 21 2018 Retrieved May 22 2018 a b c d e f g h Full Filmography BillGold net Archived from the original on May 25 2018 Retrieved May 22 2018 Further reading EditAmerican Film Institute February 12 2016 Meet Bill Gold The Man Behind the Most Iconic Movie Posters Ever The New York Times Bill Gold reflects on his art and his career Block Alex Ben May 16 2011 Secrets Behind Hollywood s Greatest Movie Posters The Hollywood Reporter This feature article about Gold s career has a link to fourteen images of his posters Smith Ian Haydn 2018 Selling the Movie The Art of the Movie Poster London White Lion Publishing ISBN 978 0 71124 024 7 Trodson Lars October 26 2009 The Gold Standard Roundtable Pictures Interviews Legendary Movie Poster Designer Bill Gold Roundtable Pictures Inc External links Edit1994 Hollywood Reporter Lifetime Achievement Award video permanent dead link Meet Bill Gold The Man Behind the Most Iconic Movie Posters Ever Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bill Gold amp oldid 1146226901, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
