Dan Goozee was a long time contractor for WDI and some of his stateside pieces, he’s probably best known for his work on Disneyland Paris and Tokyo DisneySea, include Splash Mountain and Expedition Everest.
Last edited:
-
Welcome to the WDWMAGIC.COM Forums!
Please take a look around, and feel free to sign up and join the community.
News RIP Walt Disney Imagineering Concept Artist Dan Goozee
- Thread starter the.dreamfinder
- Start date
Dan Goozee was a long time contractor for WDI and some of his stateside pieces, he’s probably best known for his work on Disneyland Paris and Tokyo DisneySea, include Splash Mountain and Expedition Everest.
RandySavage
Well-Known Member
Of the elite level artists capable of gorgeously hand-rendering entire parks or lands... e.g. Tom Gilleon, John , Herb Ryman, Bryan Jowers, Collin Campbell, Greg Pro, Chuck Ballew and a handful of others... I put Dan Goozee atop that list of greats. I strained my eyes as a kid looking at his Animal Kingdom and DisneySea overview paintings, trying to imagine what they would be like when built.
While GenII legends like Jowers and Gilleon were brought back to do some key art for Shanghai Disneyland, I don't know if Goozee did anything for Disney post-DisneySea/California Adventure...
Wish I could see his entire oeuvre. He was and remains the GOAT of theme park artists, imo.
While GenII legends like Jowers and Gilleon were brought back to do some key art for Shanghai Disneyland, I don't know if Goozee did anything for Disney post-DisneySea/California Adventure...
Wish I could see his entire oeuvre. He was and remains the GOAT of theme park artists, imo.
Obituary in “The Hollywood Reporter”.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Dan Goozee, Renowned Walt Disney Imagineering and Movie Poster Artist, Dies at 80
He also served as a production illustrator on several Fox movies and had a long association with Walt Disney Imagineering.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
Dan Goozee, Renowned Walt Disney Imagineering and Movie Poster Artist, Dies at 80
He also served as a production illustrator on several Fox movies and had a long association with Walt Disney Imagineering.
Dan Goozee Courtesy of Julie Svendsennormal
He also served as a production illustrator on several Fox movies and had a long association with Walt Disney Imagineering.
Dan Goozee, the acclaimed artist who created posters for such films as Clash of the Titans, Superman IV and the James Bond movies Moonraker, Octopussy and A View to a Kill, has died. He was 80.
Goozee died April 7 at West Hills Hospital & Medical Center of an age-related condition he had battled for two years, his son, Rob, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The unassuming Goozee spent years as a Walt Disney Imagineering theme park consultant, crafting conceptual artwork for Disneyland Paris and Tokyo DisneySea, for Splash Mountain and Big Thunder rides, for the Imagination Pavilion and Seas Pavilion at EPCOT and for the Tree of Life attraction at Animal Kingdom.
He also handled effects work for Battlestar Galactica (1978) and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979).
Born in 1943 in Astoria, Oregon, Daniel Goozee worked on weekends at movie theaters that his father and uncle owned and operated in nearby Seaside, then graduated from the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena in 1965.
A year later, he landed a job in the art department at Fox and was a production illustrator on Doctor Dolittle (1967), Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974) and a set illustrator on Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973).
After working on Logan’s Run (1976) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Goozee joined Walt Disney Imagineering as a developmental/consulting artist.
For Moonraker (1979), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985), Goozee captured 007 star Roger Moore in close contact with, respectively, Lois Chiles, Maud Adams and Grace Jones.
Dan Goozee’s poster for the 1985 film ‘A View to a Kill’ featured Roger Moore and Grace Jones. MGM/UA/courtesy Everett Collectionnormal
In addition to Clash of the Titans (1981) — the final film from effects legend Ray Harryhausen — and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Goozee worked on posters for Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), The Black Stallion Returns(1983), Streets of Fire (1984), Crocodile Dundee(1986), The Mission (1986) and more. He did a lot of his posters at Seiniger & Associates.
Along the way, Goozeé was honored by the Oil Painters of America, Watercolor West and the California National Watercolor Society, among others. He produced a 19-foot mural for Robert Mondavi’s Golden Vineyard Room at Disney’s California Adventure, and his work can be seen at the Los Angeles Athletic Club and the Autry Museum of the American West.
In addition to his son, survivors include his wife, Michi; daughter-in-law Sarah; and twin grandsons Christopher and Jonathan. Services will be held at 1 p.m. on April 25 at Forest Lawn Glendale.
“You will always be with us even as your work lives on from all things Disney, movies, fine art and more,” Rob wrote. “I’m sure you’re enjoying the views from up there. Look forward to one day seeing them with you again.”
ToTBellHop
Well-Known Member
He made some truly gorgeous (and iconic among us fans) theme park artwork. Rest easy.