Saul was born on 8th May 1920 in Bronx, New York. He was an American graphic designer and academy award winning filmmaker, best known for his design of motion picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos .He graduated from James Monroe High School in Bronx and studied part-time at the Art Students League in Manhattan until attending night classes with Gyorgy Kepes at Brooklyn College. He began his time in Hollywood in the 1940's, designing print advertisements for films including Champion (1949), Death of a Salesman (1951) and The Moon Is Blue(1953), directed by Otto Preminger.
During his 40 year career he worked for some of Hollywood's most prominent filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Billy Wilder, Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. Among his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addicts arm for Preminger's “The Man With The Golden Arm”.
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