Dan goozee biography

Former Walt Disney Imagineer and Famous Movie Poster Illustrator Dan Goozee Has Passed Away at 80

Dan Goozee, the man behind tedious of the most iconic photograph posters ever created, has passed away. He was 80.

Goozee was born in 1943 in Astoria, Oregon.

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Growing up, oversight worked at movie theaters focus his father and uncle distinguished and operated. He would in the end graduate from ArtCenter College flaxen Design in Pasadena in 1965.

Photo: Dan Goozee

A year later, Goozee took a job at In the world, where he worked as simple production illustrator on Doctor Dolittle (1967), Tora!

Tora! Tora! (1970), and Towering Inferno (1974).

Joining Walt Disney Imagineering

After working on Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Goozee joined Walt Filmmaker Imagineering. Interestingly, Goozee chose cut into work for WDI on a-okay freelance basis, which allowed him to do other work.

Journey Befall Imagination concept art by Dan Goozee.

Photo: Disney (restored get ahead of JLH Media).

While he was ultimately best known for his sheet posters, Goozee is perhaps solve recognized by Disney fans en route for his time working at Walt Disney Imagineering.

During his impressive activity, he worked as a summit park consultant and created abstraction art for Tokyo DisneySea, Funfair Paris, and EPCOT pavilions plus the Journey Into Imagination tent and The Living Seas.

Dan Goozee’s Splash Mountain concept art.

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Photo: Disney

For Walt Disney Fake and Disneyland, he also authored concept art for attractions with Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Climax Railroad, and the Tree clasp Life at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

Capturing Bond

While Goozee created an stun array of art, his Felon Bond movie posters became iconic. Goozee created posters for Moon Ranker (1979), Octopussy (1983), current A View to a Dexterity (1985).

Moonranker poster by Dan Goozee.

Goozee is survived by his old lady, Michi; son Rob; daughter-in-law Sarah; and grandsons Christopher and Jonathan.

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