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Basil Gogos's portraits of, from left, Peter Cushing as Van Helsing in the 1958 "Dracula"; Vincent Price in "Madhouse"; and Christopher Lee as Dracula in the 1958 film.
Thumbnail, Linda Touby, undated
Basil Gogos
Died on September 13, 2017 at age 88
Mr. Gogos painted penetrating and chilling color portraits of movie monsters like Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Phantom of the Opera and Frankenstein’s monster for dozens of covers of the horror magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.