The posters of Bill Gold

[eatbrie]

Since 1971's Dirty Harry, there hasn't been a closer collaboration between movie star and poster artist than Clint Eastwood and Bill Gold.  Strangely, I've been browsing the web and couldn't find much on Gold, even though he is responsible for some of the best posters ever.  I own very few of them, and certainly not masterpieces like Casablanca, Dial M for Murder or Bullit, but I thought I'd try to put something together to celebrate the man's art out of my collection.

Bill Gold Collection

If I made mistakes (and I know I did), please let me know.  I know the titles, but not necessarily the posters.

Here are some classics...



There is also a great book, which I'm thinking of getting: Posterworks.  Does anyone own it?

T

[Harry Caul]

That book looks fantastic... I've been eyeing it for a while now. 

By the way, is there a list of the posters he designed somewhere?  I had no idea he designed the canoe-through-eye Deliverance poster!  I checked the large version on your site, I don't see his sig on it anywhere...

[eatbrie]

Yeah, Deliverance Intl. is one of his best, IMO.

Here's the Wikipedia list I went through to put my own collection together.

T

Or this video:
Or this one... scroll down the page... Bill Gold

[Zorba]

Im a little confused.

I know the artist on the Gauntlet poster was Frank Frazetta and its in both the video and the Wikipedia list.

Is he a poster artist or the guy in charge of the poster designs or sometimes both?...

[eatbrie]

I have been trying to figure that out myself.  The same thing goes with My Fair Lady, which was done by Bob Peak.  Yet, it's clear that Bob Clark had some involvement in the creation of the piece.

Anyone?

T

[tstatum]

The article also lists The Sting which is Amsel unless he did the other sting art.

[tstatum]

Regardless if he did half the work listed his talent is unmistakable.  And unlike many poster artist his style change on every poster.

[Zorba]

I have been trying to figure that out myself.  The same thing goes with My Fair Lady, which was done by Bob Peak.  Yet, it's clear that Bob Clark had some involvement in the creation of the piece.

Anyone?

T

I just looked at the list again and besides My Fair Lady, I see some others that are definately Bob Peak's art....Camelot, A dream of Kings and Any Which Way You Can. You can go to this site and see the original raw art work.  

http://www.bobpeak.com/bob-peak-book/

Im guessing on these he was responsible for the poster layouts? Where the credits went, which art to use and  which art went where?...

I dont much about other artists to be able to pick out their art work so I would have no idea which ones he actually did the art work on without going through every poster.  

Regardless if he did half the work listed his talent is unmistakable.  And unlike many poster artist his style change on every poster.

I agree. The man is GREAT at what he does.

[longdog]

Here's a link to a nice article that should give you a better idea of what exactly his contribution to these posters was;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/classic-movies/8116899/Bill-Gold-the-Mad-Man-of-movie-posters.html

[Zorba]

Here's a link to a nice article that should give you a better idea of what exactly his contribution to these posters was;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/classic-movies/8116899/Bill-Gold-the-Mad-Man-of-movie-posters.html

Thanks.... Excellent article. That cleared most of it up for me anyway.... Hes in charge of every one of those posters. The boss.

"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

In the case of Camelot, Bob Peak was the illustrator, ‘but all the design was dominated by my art direction’, Gold says. ‘I dictated the whole design to him, I gave him the Klimt reference, I led him into doing what he did.’"

I still would like to know which ones he did the actual art work on. It says he drew the sketches for Casablanca.

I love this stuff. I just think its cool. One guy all those posters. Thats a dream job.

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Was his Alien teaser ever printed or is it just a concept?

[Tob]

The book looks amazing. I wonder if they'll do a cheaper/trade copy as Taschen did for the beautiful tomes like The Kubrick Archives, Godfather Family Album and GOAT?

[CJ138]

I have never seen that before Mel.  Very cool art.

[Ed_209uk]

Tob: I really hope they do a reasonably priced edition too. I can't imagine they've sold many of the 'masterpiece' edition or whatever they've called it.

[guest4955]

Bill Gold’s Movie Posters Were the Stuff of Hollywood Dreams

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

[guest4955]

www.billgold.net