About Richard Amsel

  • Biography

    Richard Amsel began his career by winning the "Hello Dolly" movie campaign from 20th Century Fox while still an art student at the Philadelphia College of Art. His illustrations and celebrity portraits have been seen by literally millions of people around the world in ads, on movie posters, TV Guide, record and magazine covers.

    Amsel's Cinema Art for such popular movies as The Sting, Murder on the Orient Express, A Star is Born, The Last Picture Show, Judge Roy Bean, Chinatown, Death on the Nile, The Dark Crystal, and Raiders of the Lost Ark (and its re-release) require no introduction. In just thirteen years, he was awarded over 40 TV Guide covers, including the cover portraits of Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh commemorating the hist...

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