Roger Hall (artist)

[1] Hall began his career aged 15 painting front of house displays for cinemas for the London Art Service.

[1] In 1933, he created a 20 foot high portrait of the actor Charles Bickford made up of 12 plywood panels for display at the top of a cinema in Marble Arch.

[1] After leaving Pulford Publicity, Hall began a career in book illustration, working first for Hutchinson producing hardback covers and later producing covers and illustrations for Ladybird Books and many notable post-war British paperback publishers such as Pan, Arrow, Corgi, and Mills & Boon.

For Ladybird he produced illustrations for Cooking with Mother and The Story of our Canals, along with 14 books in the "Famous People" series.

[7] In 1986, he moved to Spain where he held three exhibitions, but returned to England in 2003 where he settled in Gloucestershire and continued to paint.