Gene Trindl (April 14, 1924 – June 29, 2004) was an American photographer and the most prolific creator of covers for TV Guide magazine.
His photographs have been published in reputed American magazines like Life, The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's.
His early career was marked by apprenticeships, teaching at Pierce College in California, and co-producing some 22 educational films.
The Gene Trindl Media Trust has over 90,000 edited slide images and tens of thousands of film negatives on file.
[3] His subjects included a Who's Who of Hollywood with notable personalities such as Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Rock Hudson, and Benny and Burns, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles and Fred Astaire are more contemporary faces as Tom Selleck, the cast of Star Trek, and Michael Jackson.