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Saul Bass: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born May 8, 1920 • New York City • New York
Died April 25, 1996 (aged 75) • Los Angeles • California
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1969)
Notable Works “Phase IV” • “Why Man Creates”

Photos

Title graphics for Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, designed by Saul Bass, 1959.
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Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro
American actor
Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.
Martin Scorsese
American filmmaker
Paul Newman
Paul Newman
American actor and philanthropist
Fred Zinnemann stands between Marlon Brando, left, in a suit, and Montgomery Clift, right, in a tank top, on the set of From Here to Eternity, with lockers in the background.
Fred Zinnemann
American director
Barbara Kopple
Barbara Kopple
American director
Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain, joyfully hanging from a lamppost with an umbrella during a nighttime rainstorm on a city street.
Gene Kelly
American actor, dancer, and director
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
American director, producer, and screenwriter
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze
American director and producer
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas
American actor and producer
Moore, Michael
Michael Moore
American filmmaker and author
Cary Grant as Roger O. Thornhill and Eva Marie Saint as Eve Kendall embrace atop Mount Rushmore in the climactic scene from North by Northwest, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Eva Marie Saint
American actress
Advise & Consent
Charles Laughton
English actor
JFK
Joe Pesci
American actor
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Bernard Herrmann
American composer and conductor
Hamlet (1948)
Laurence Olivier
British actor, director, writer, and producer
Peter Ustinov
Peter Ustinov
English actor, director, writer, and humanitarian
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Carol Reed
British director
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David Maysles
American documentary filmmaker
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Ernest Lehman
American screenwriter and film producer
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
American director, playwright, and costume designer

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