Overview
- Struzan died on October 13, 2025, with the news posted the next day on his Instagram account, which several reports attribute to collaborator and account administrator Greg Aronowitz.
- His wife, Dylan, had revealed in March 2025 that Alzheimer's disease had curtailed his ability to paint or sign, providing context for his limited recent output.
- He created more than 150 posters across five decades for franchises including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, E.T., Blade Runner, The Goonies and Harry Potter.
- He formally retired in 2008 after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull but returned for select projects, notably a 2015 poster for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
- Tributes poured in from filmmakers, with Steven Spielberg saying his posters "made many of our films destinations," and George Lucas and Guillermo del Toro lauding his enduring influence.