Tom Chantrell

Tom Chantrell

Tom Chantrell born Thomas William Chantrell in Manchester on 20 December 1916 died 15 July 2001 was a British illustrator and film poster artist.

Biography

The son of a trapeze artist, Chantrell was the youngest of nine children. [http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,,528633,00.html#article_continue Obituary: Tom Chantrell | Film | The Guardian ] ] He left Manchester Art College and went into advertising, eventually starting in 1933 at Allardyce Palmer who had accounts with Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox. [http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/podcasts/transcripts/british_film_posters.asp Liverpool museums - Transcript of audio download of the British Film Posters lecture ] ] In 1938 he designed his first film poster "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse".

He continued with posters until World War II service with the Royal Engineers bomb disposal units. After demobilisation he returned to Allardyce Palmer eventually doing over 7,000 film posters.

Chantrell didn't see the films he drew for; he would receive a plot line and a handful of stills and use friends and family for poses. Examples of this were taking photographs of himself trying to look like a vampire for "Dracula Has Risen from the Grave" and his wife Shirley held a plastic sword in the back garden to pose for Princess Leia on the original "Star Wars" poster.Chantrell's posters were often produced prior to the film being made in order to raise money from investors.

Chantrell designed many posters for Hammer Films and the Carry On films. The latter brought him some trouble when the poster for "Carry On Spying" had to be changed to avoid looking too much like the Renato Fratini poster for "From Russia with Love (film)" whilst the "Carry On Cleo" poster was pulled and redesigned after a lawsuit from 20th Century Fox that the send up looked too much like the original Howard Terpning "Cleopatra (1963 film)" artwork. [ [http://www.hammerhorrorposters.com/tomchantrell.html tomchantrell ] ]

In the 1960's Chantrell was often drawing artwork for 5 different films or double bills at one time. [ibid]

With the move away from illustrated artwork for motion pictures, Chantrell designed covers for videos.

Among films he designed the artwork for were "The King and I (film)", "Von Ryan's Express", "One Million Years B.C.", and "Star Wars".

notes

Reference

*Brannigan, Sim & Chibnall, Stephan "British Film Posters: An Illustrated History" 2006 British Film Institute Publishing

External links

* Chantrell posters http://www.britposters.com/chantrell.htm


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