Tom Chantrell

Tom Chantrell was a British illustrator and cinema poster artist known for designing the posters for epic films such as "The King and I" (1956), "One Million Years B.C." (1966) and "Star Wars" (1977). Chantrell also served in the Non-Combatant Corps of the British Army, later volunteering for duties with a bomb disposal unit of the Royal Engineers in Tunbridge Wells, and spent most of the war digging unexploded ordnance and mines out of beaches on the coast of Kent and Sussex. He later put his artistic skills to use designing propaganda posters for the war effort.