Albert was hired by Roger Corman in the 1950's to be art director, overseeing the design of all the fantastic low budget horror and science fiction film posters from American International Pictures, where he continued on as the primary art director for 17 years. He collaborated with previously mentioned poster artist Reynold Brown on many of the posters. I was surprised to find out that Albert was one of the co founders of the popular pancake franchise in America, The International House Of Pancakes.
The following pages are from the March 1988 issue of Cinefantastique.
I couldn't find anywhere online pointing to what artist created the following posters but given that they were made under AIP while Albert Kallis was the art director, and that they resemble his painting style, it seems safe to assume they were made by him, if not Reynold Brown. If anyone can clarify the artists of these I'd appreciate it!
There's unfortunately very few online articles devoted to Albert, and no websites to even mention, I did find a brief biography on his life at the Albert and Trudy Kallis foundation website here.
11 comments:
I love these posts and poster collections! Great work!
Niceeee. Great posters!
Some of my all-time favorite classic posters. Thanks for putting them all in one place!
Very potent visual and such a fun union of beautiful ladies and eerie monsters!
Now I wanna go to the Internet Archives and watch some of these!
I love all these posted posters. There is a correction I must make though. Albert Kallis was not the artist for THE GIANT BEHEMOTH, Joseph "Joe" Smith was. Mr. Smith's signature can be seen on the 1-sheet in the yellow area just above the "B" in "Behemoth". You need a hi-res pic to be able to see his sig but it is there.
Great graphics! I dig Albert's work the most of vintage monster movie posters.
The poster entitled "The Spider" was awesome. I really like the color plus the design!
Great work!
I think that Kallis designed those posters but the art was mostly by Reynold Brown.
GREAT, great, great. Thank you.
Great, great, great, thank you
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