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.
A prolific illustrator, he was most closely associated with the image that made the “Jaws” paperback a runaway best seller, and the blockbuster film it inspired an enduring classic.
Roger Kastel painted the image for the cover of the paperback edition of the 1974 Peter Benchley novel on which the 1975 blockbuster film, directed by Steven Spielberg, was based.
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.