Eric Pulford

Eric William Pulford (8 August 1915 – 30 July 2005)[1] was a British commercial artist who, in a career of over 50 years, was responsible for over 1000 cinema poster designs.

Eric William Pulford was born in Beeston, a suburb of Leeds, in August 1915, the eldest of five children of a butcher father, and was educated there at Cockburn High School, until he left aged 14.

Clients included Rank who owned the Gaumont and Odeon cinema chains, British Lion, Universal, United Artists and RKO.

In 1965 Downtons merged with the Dixons agency, adding Columbia and Disney, and later Avco-Embassy and Brent Walker, to its portfolio of clients.

He continued to produce some finished works, however, including Stranger In The House (1967), The Lady Vanishes (1979), and Breathless (1983).