- Born
- Died
- Birth nameRobert Emil Brownjohn
- Nickname
- B.J.
- Robert Brownjohn was born on August 8, 1925 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and art director, known for Goldfinger (1964), From Russia with Love (1963) and The Night of the Generals (1967). He died on August 1, 1970 in London, England, UK.
- He was a heroin addict for many years, which led directly to his early death.
- Famous for his opening credit design on two popular James Bond films, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger, he can be seen as Freddie Jones's tough bodyguard Paul in the movie Otley, which was a satire of the spy/espionage genre.
- He did the opening credits for The Night of the Generals, co-starring Tom Courtenay, and then played a thug constantly chasing Courtenay in his one acting role, Otley.
- Designed the famous album cover (a photograph of his sculpture) for The Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed.
- He was the first to provide the opening sequence artwork for a Bond film with an original song named after the movie, that being Goldfinger by Shirley Bassey (both Dr. No, which he didn't work on, and From Russia With Love, his first, used the Bond theme for the opening).
- I think the revolution in typography has been in terms of image. The picture and the word have become one thing. The only real advance... has been the use of type not as an adjunct to an illustration or the image but in its use as the image itself. (1959)
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