Overview

• Casaro’s illustrations defined film marketing for decades, with celebrated work on A Fistful of Dollars, Conan the Barbarian and the Rambo films.
• He was credited with boosting Arnold Schwarzenegger’s early career through the striking Conan the Barbarian poster for producer Dino De Laurentiis.
• His portfolio spanned collaborations with major filmmakers and titles, including The Last Emperor, Dune, The Princess Bride, Total Recall and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
• Trained as a lithographer, he joined Rome’s Studio Favalli as a young illustrator and opened his own studio at 21 before rising to international prominence in the mid-1960s.
• He largely stepped away from poster work in 1998 as studios shifted to digital design, later returning for Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood commission in 2019.