Obituaries
'Jaws' Movie Poster Artist Roger Kastel Dies At 92 In Massachusetts
His wife, Grace Kastel, told the Hollywood Reporter that he died of kidney and heart failure at a hospice facility.
November 17, 2023
An iconic artist with over 1,000 illustrations - including movie posters for the movies "Jaws" and "The Empire Strikes Back" - Roger Karl Kastel has died at age 92 in Worcester County, Massachusetts, according to his website.
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His wife, Grace Kastel, told the Hollywood Reporter that he died of kidney and heart failure at a hospice facility.
According to Kastel's website, "Roger got his first paying art job at the age of 15 doing industrial cartoons. He sold his first illustration in the early 1960s and illustrated paperback book covers and movie posters over the next forty years."
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