Sandy Dvore is an American

United States

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 artist

Artist

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 and graphic designer.

Dvore first became well known for designing the cover art for Buffalo Springfield

Buffalo Springfield

Buffalo Springfield is a North American folk rock band renown both for its music and as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina. Among the first wave of North American bands to become popular in the wake of the British invasion, the group combined...

's eponymous album

Buffalo Springfield (album)

Buffalo Springfield is the self-titled debut album by folk rock band Buffalo Springfield, released in late 1966. It was originally released in both mono and stereo versions as Atco 33-200, but when the single "For What It's Worth" became a hit, the album was re-released as Atco 33-200A and added...

. He is best known for his work in designing television's more iconic title sequence

Title sequence

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s, such as the walking partridges in The Partridge Family

The Partridge Family

The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career. The series originally ran from September 25, 1970 until August 31, 1974, the last new episode airing on March 23, 1974, on the ABC network, as part of a Friday-night lineup...

, and the brush-stroke logo and paintings from the long-running soap opera

Soap opera

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 The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...

. His film title credits include the 1976 film Lipstick

Lipstick

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and the 1972 Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation

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 thriller Blacula

Blacula

Blacula is a 1972 American horror film produced for American International Pictures. It was directed by William Crain and stars William Marshall in the title role about an 18th century African prince named Mamuwalde, who is both turned into a vampire and locked inside a coffin by Count Dracula...

. Also, he designed the opening credits for selected seasons of the nighttime soap opera Knots Landing

Knots Landing

Knots Landing is an American primetime television soap opera that aired from December 27, 1979 to May 13, 1993 on CBS. Set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles in California, the show centered on the lives of four married couples living in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle...

.

Dvore's close friend is producer and director Bob Claver, who convinced Screen Gems

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 to hire him to do the opener for The Partridge Family as well as other subsequent shows.

Dvore's work in graphic design won him an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...

 in 1987 for "Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin".

Logo design

United Artists;
Picturemaker Productions;
International Creative Management (ICM);
Los Angeles International Film Exhibition (Filmex);
The Young and the Restless;
Solo Cup Company,
A Lorimar Production,

Television

"Knots Landing" (TV Series) (1987-1989) (main titles design)
"The Young and the Restless" (1973-1988 drawings and 1984-1999 logo)
“A Hobo's Christmas” (1987) (TV Movie) (title designer)
“Sister Margaret and the Saturday Night Ladies” (1987) (TV Movie) (main title designer)
"North and South, Book II" (1986) (TV Miniseries) (title designer: main titles)
"North and South" (TV Miniseries) (1985) (drawings)
"The Waltons" (TV Series) (1973-1981) (main title designer)
"The Partridge Family” (1970-1974) (TV Series)(main title designer)
"The Bold Ones: The New Doctors" (1972-1973) (TV Series)(main title design)
“James Dean” (1976) (TV Movie) (Illustrator: main titles)
“Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” (1979) (TV) (title designer: main titles)
“Police Story" (TV Series) (1974-1978) (graphic artist)

Film

“Lipstick” (1976) (design graphics)
“For Pete's Sake” (1974) (title designer)
“Jonathan Livingston Seagull” (1973) (visual consultant)
“Blacula” (1972) (title designer)
“De Sade” (1969) (title designer)
“The Dunwich Horror” (1970) (title designer)
“Three in the Attic” (1968) (titles)
“Skidoo” (1968) (titles)

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