Roger Kastel (June 11, 1931 – November 8, 2023) was an American artist, known for creating the posters for the films Jaws (1975) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). [1][2][3][4]

2023年11月16日 · While cinemagoers will likely remember him best for the Jaws and The Empire Strikes Back posters, his family will remember his lifelong love of art. In a touching line on his website, a moment he turned to his wife, Grace, and declared: “Art is my life!” is recalled, in heartfelt ode to his craft.

2023年11月17日 · Roger Kastel, an artist whose painting for the “Jaws” poster — of a menacing shark with bared teeth looming below an insouciant skinny dipper — became one of the most enduring images in...

2015年7月26日 · The original artwork for “Jaws,” used for both the cover of the Peter Benchley book and the Steven Spielberg film, which came out 40 years ago this summer, has vanished, says artist Roger...

2023年11月15日 · Roger Kastel, the artist whose painting of a shark and a swimmer for the cover of the paperback version of Peter Benchley’s Jaws was used as the iconic movie poster for the 1975 Steven...

2024年6月3日 · Projected from a slide was the proposed cover art to Jaws, a forthcoming thriller novel from an unheralded author named Peter Benchley about an aggressive great white shark that terrorizes a...

2023年11月16日 · One of the artist’s most famous pieces is the poster for Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, with its bullet-shaped Great White shark. Born on 11 June 1931, in White Plains, New York, Kastel studied at...

2018年10月6日 · Kastel of course is renowned for producing the illustration that helped propel the paperback version of Peter Benchley's novel Jaws (1975) into an international bestseller. Soon afterward his great white shark morphed into a poster that helped promote Jaws the movie into becoming one of the most iconic films of all time.

2023年11月15日 · Roger Kastel was as an acclaimed illustrator and artist whose work appeared in many forms — but his single most famous piece is the one that became the poster for Steven Spielberg’s Jaws,...

2023年4月16日 · Steven Spielberg’s Jaws is a timeless classic. Based on Peter Benchley’s best-selling novel, it is regarded as the first ever summer blockbuster. It was also a box office smash hit on its release in 1975, and changed the landscape of Hollywood movies forever.