Dan Perri
Daniel Richard Perri (born August 11, 1945) is an American film and television title sequence designer. He has worked in film title design since the 1970s, and has been responsible for the main titles of several notable films including The Exorcist (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Star Wars (1977), Raging Bull (1980), Airplane! (1980), and Suspiria (2018).
Perri made contact with the film graphics designer Saul Bass and began to pester him for work at his studio on Sunset Boulevard. Eventually, Perri found work with Bass through his illustrator, Art Goodman. During his service in the US Navy, Perri served on the USS Repose and designed an on-board newspaper, entitled The Repose Reprise.
After serving in the Navy, Perri went to work with Cinefx alongside Phill Norman, Wayne Fitzgerald Don Record, and a former school friend, Steve Smith. After a year, both Perri and Smith quit and went on to form their independent design studio, Perri & Smith. The pair worked together from 1969 to 1973, mostly on small, low-budget television features, but their credits also included films such as Electra Glide in Blue and several of Gene Corman's blaxploitation films. The designers were often exploited and clients sometimes failed to pay, and eventually, the business folded.
Perri's big break came in 1973 when he was commissioned by Billy Friedkin to produce the main titles for The Exorcist, his first solo project. With a blockbuster film in his portfolio, Perri was now able to attract more work and soon found himself working on high-profile titles. For Nashville (1975), Robert Altman commissioned a main title sequence and a logo to be used in marketing. Perri produced an unusual, kitschy sequence inspired by low-budget K-Tel Records television commercials, complete with a loud, brash voiceover by Johnny Grant.
In 1976, Martin Scorsese brought Perri in to design the titles for Taxi Driver. Perri took second unit footage and color-treated the film through a process of film copying and slit-scan, resulting in a highly stylized graphic sequence that evoked the "underbelly" of New York City through lurid colors, glowing neon signs distorted nocturnal images and deep black levels, accompanied by Bernard Herrmann's jazz soundtrack.
Possibly Perri's best-known title sequence project came about in 1976 when his friend James Nelson was working on post-production for a new space fantasy film, Star Wars. Nelson recommended Perri to director George Lucas, who invited Perri to Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm's post-production operation at Van Nuys, California. Lucas briefed Perri to take inspiration from old 1930s cinema serials such as Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers that had inspired Lucas to write much of his Star Wars story. After struggling to come up with a concept that Lucas liked, Perri eventually developed a concept for presenting a textual introduction based on the opening credits of the 1939 Cecil B. DeMille film, Union Pacific, in which the credits are shown distorted by a sharp perspective and rolling along a railroad track towards a distant vanishing point. Lucas approved of the idea and Perri produced sketches and prototype mechanical artwork, supported by storyboard artwork drawn by the production artist Alex Tavoularis. This gave birth to the now-familiar opening crawl sequence that appears in the Star Wars films.
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The First Five Minutes... The Title Design Legacy of Dan Perri
2026 · self, Producer
The Exorcist Untold
2023 · Self
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
2023 · Title Designer
Dead for a Dollar
2022 · Title Designer
Sam Morril: Same Time Tomorrow
2022 · Makeup & Hair
Mosquito State
2021 · Title Designer
The Art of The Film Title
2021
I'm Your Woman
2020 · Title Designer
Lake of Death
2019 · Title Designer
The Public
2019 · Title Designer
Suspiria
2018 · Title Designer
First House on the Hill
2017 · Title Designer
All Saints
2017 · Title Designer
Internet Famous
2016 · Title Designer
Sharkskin
2015 · Waiter, Screenplay, Title Designer, Producer, Director
The Beaver
2011 · Title Designer
Pound of Flesh
2011 · Title Designer
The Warm-Up Guy
2010 · Title Designer
Spinning Into Butter
2009 · Title Designer
Spread
2009 · Title Designer
There Will Be Blood
2007 · Main Title Designer
In the Valley of Elah
2007 · Title Designer
The House of Usher
2007 · Title Designer
Have Dreams, Will Travel
2007 · Title Designer
Even Money
2007 · Title Designer
Hoot
2006 · Title Designer
Eight Below
2006 · Title Designer
Santa's Slay
2005 · Main Title Designer
Pizza
2005 · Title Designer
The Aviator
2004 · Title Designer
Mojave
2004 · Title Designer
The Battle of Shaker Heights
2003 · Title Designer
Tropix
2002 · Title Designer
Gangs of New York
2002 · Title Designer
American Gun
2002 · Title Designer
Insomnia
2002 · Title Designer
Sorority Boys
2002 · Title Designer
Speaking of Sex
2001 · Title Designer
James Dean
2001 · Title Designer
Bartleby
2001 · Title Designer
15 Minutes
2001 · Title Designer
Luckytown
2000 · Title Designer
The Road to 'Dracula'
1999 · Main Title Designer
Vendetta
1999 · Title Designer
In Too Deep
1999 · Title Designer
East Is East
1999 · Title Designer
Thick as Thieves
1999 · Title Designer
She's All That
1999 · Main Title Designer
Freak City
1999 · Title Designer
Varsity Blues
1999 · Title Designer
Monster by Moonlight! The Immortal Saga of 'The Wolf Man'
1999 · Main Title Designer
She's Alive! Creating 'The Bride of Frankenstein'
1999 · Main Title Designer
The 'Frankenstein' Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster
1999 · Title Designer
A Night at the Roxbury
1998 · Title Designer
I Woke Up Early the Day I Died
1998 · Title Designer
54
1998 · Title Designer
Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights
1998 · Title Designer
Since You've Been Gone
1998 · Title Designer
The Very Thought of You
1998 · Title Designer
A Price Above Rubies
1998 · Title Designer
Cold Around the Heart
1997 · Title Designer
Playing God
1997 · Title Designer
Soul Food
1997 · Main Title Designer
This World, Then the Fireworks
1997 · Title Designer
Another 9 1/2 Weeks
1997 · Title Designer
Traveller
1997 · Title Designer
Love Jones
1997 · Title Designer
Gridlock'd
1997 · Title Designer
Tinseltown
1997 · Title Designer
Harvey
1996 · Title Designer
Curdled
1996 · Title Designer
Freeway
1996 · Title Designer
House Arrest
1996 · Title Designer
Rainbow
1996 · Title Designer
Mulholland Falls
1996 · Title Designer
Mallrats
1995 · Title Designer
Dazzle
1995 · Title Designer
Separate Lives
1995 · Title Designer
Species
1995 · Title Designer
Congo
1995 · Title Designer
Picture Bride
1995 · Title Designer
Safe Passage
1994 · Title Designer
Color of Night
1994 · Title Designer
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993 · Second Unit Director, Title Designer
Mr. Wonderful
1993 · Title Designer
Iron Monkey
1993 · Title Designer
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
1993 · Title Designer
Alive
1993 · Title Designer
The Distinguished Gentleman
1992 · Title Designer
Traces of Red
1992 · Title Designer
Night and the City
1992 · Title Designer
Original Intent
1992 · Title Designer
The Player
1992 · Title Designer
Deep Cover
1992 · Title Designer
Palomino
1991 · Title Designer
The Taking of Beverly Hills
1991 · Title Designer
Guilty by Suspicion
1991 · Title Designer
Prison Stories: Women on the Inside
1991 · Title Designer
The Rescuers Down Under
1990 · Title Designer
Pacific Heights
1990 · Title Designer
RoboCop 2
1990 · Title Designer
The First Power
1990 · Title Designer
Lord of the Flies
1990 · Title Designer
Men Don't Leave
1990 · Title Designer
Stella
1990 · Title Designer
Internal Affairs
1990 · Title Designer
Miracle Mile
1989 · Title Designer
Field of Dreams
1989 · Title Designer
Out Cold
1989 · Title Designer
Talk Radio
1988 · Title Designer
Tequila Sunrise
1988 · Title Designer
Fresh Horses
1988 · Title Designer
Everybody's All-American
1988 · Title Designer
Mystic Pizza
1988 · Title Designer
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
1988 · Title Designer
1969
1988 · Title Designer
Vibes
1988 · Title Designer
Midnight Run
1988 · Title Designer
Bull Durham
1988 · Title Designer
The Beat
1988 · Title Designer
A Time of Destiny
1988 · Title Designer
The Seventh Sign
1988 · Title Designer
Leonard Part 6
1987 · Title Designer
Wall Street
1987 · Title Designer
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
1987 · Title Designer
In the Mood
1987 · Title Designer
La Bamba
1987 · Title Designer
Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise
1987 · Title Designer
The Allnighter
1987 · Title Designer
Raising Arizona
1987 · Title Designer
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 · Second Unit Director, Title Designer
Platoon
1986 · Title Designer
Willy/Milly
1986 · Title Designer
Streets of Gold
1986 · Title Designer
Quiet Cool
1986 · Title Designer
The Color of Money
1986 · Title Designer
Deadly Friend
1986 · Title Designer
Tough Guys
1986 · Title Designer
Where the River Runs Black
1986 · Title Designer
Wise Guys
1986 · Title Designer
Dream Lover
1986 · Title Designer
Quicksilver
1986 · Title Designer
Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986 · Title Designer
White Nights
1985 · Title Designer
After Hours
1985 · Title Designer
Compromising Positions
1985 · Title Designer
Beer
1985 · Title Designer
Key Exchange
1985 · Title Designer
Grace Quigley
1985 · Title Designer
The Last Dragon
1985 · Title Designer
Blood Simple
1985 · Title Designer
A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · Title Designer
The Goodbye People
1984 · Title Designer
Beat Street
1984 · Title Designer
Against All Odds
1984 · Title Designer
Circus
1984 · Title Designer
A Night in Heaven
1983 · Title Designer
Star 80
1983 · Title Designer
Streamers
1983 · Title Designer
Spring Break
1983 · Title Designer
Curtains
1983 · Title Designer
The King of Comedy
1982 · Title Designer
Airplane II: The Sequel
1982 · Title Designer
An Officer and a Gentleman
1982 · Title Designer
White Dog
1982 · Title Designer
If You Could See What I Hear
1982 · Title Designer
Threshold
1981 · Title Designer
Honky Tonk Freeway
1981 · Title Designer
The Fan
1981 · Title Designer
The Hand
1981 · Title Designer
Cutter's Way
1981 · Title Designer
First Family
1980 · Title Designer
Raging Bull
1980 · Title Designer
The Idolmaker
1980 · Title Designer
The Stunt Man
1980 · Title Designer
Times Square
1980 · Title Designer
Blood Beach
1980 · Title Designer
Why Would I Lie?
1980 · Title Designer
Caddyshack
1980 · Title Designer
My Bodyguard
1980 · Title Designer
Airplane!
1980 · Title Designer
The Long Riders
1980 · Title Designer
American Gigolo
1980 · Title Designer
Going in Style
1979 · Title Designer
An American Christmas Carol
1979 · Title Designer
Promises in the Dark
1979 · Title Designer
Americathon
1979 · Title Designer
Bloodline
1979 · Title Designer
Players
1979 · Title Designer
The Double McGuffin
1979 · Title Designer
Hanover Street
1979 · Title Designer
Dreamer
1979 · Title Designer
Norma Rae
1979 · Title Designer
The Warriors
1979 · Title Designer
Stony Island
1978 · Title Designer
Movie Movie
1978 · Title Designer
Days of Heaven
1978 · Title Designer
Girlfriends
1978 · Main Title Designer, Title Designer
FM
1978 · Title Designer
F.I.S.T.
1978 · Title Designer
The Last Waltz
1978 · Title Designer
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1978 · Title Designer
House Calls
1978 · Title Designer
Coming Home
1978 · Title Designer
Blue Collar
1978 · Title Designer
The Betsy
1978 · Title Designer
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Title Designer
Capricorn One
1977 · Title Designer
Sorcerer
1977 · Title Designer
New York, New York
1977 · Title Designer
Exorcist II: The Heretic
1977 · Title Designer
Star Wars
1977 · Title Designer
The White Buffalo
1977 · Title Designer
3 Women
1977 · Title Designer
The Late Show
1977 · Title Designer
Welcome to L.A.
1976 · Title Designer
Marathon Man
1976 · Title Designer
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
1976 · Title Designer
Paco
1976 · Title Designer
The River Niger
1976 · Title Designer
Love Among the Ruins
1976 · Title Designer
All the President's Men
1976 · Title Designer
Griffin and Phoenix
1976 · Title Designer
Taxi Driver
1976 · Title Designer
Lucky Lady
1975 · Title Designer
Mr. Sycamore
1975 · Title Designer
The Legend of Bigfoot
1975 · Title Designer
Russian Roulette
1975 · Title Designer
The Four Deuces
1975 · Title Designer
Once Is Not Enough
1975 · Title Designer
Nashville
1975 · Title Designer
Las Vegas Lady
1975 · Title Designer
Lepke
1975 · Title Designer
The Day of the Locust
1975 · Title Designer
The Hiding Place
1975 · Title Designer
King Arthur, the Young Warlord
1975 · Title Designer
Freebie and the Bean
1974 · Title Designer
The Swinging Cheerleaders
1974 · Title Designer
California Split
1974 · Title Designer
Flesh Gordon
1974 · Title Designer
The Exorcist
1973 · Title Designer
I Escaped from Devil's Island
1973 · Title Designer
Heavy Traffic
1973 · Title Designer
Electra Glide in Blue
1973 · Title Designer
Time to Run
1973 · Title Designer
Hit Man
1972 · Title Designer
FTA
1972 · Title Designer
Fritz the Cat
1972 · Title Designer
Cool Breeze
1972 · Title Designer
The Concert for Bangladesh
1972 · Title Designer
The Grissom Gang
1971 · Title Designer
Plaza Suite
1971 · Title Designer
The Out-of-Towners
1970 · Title Designer
Rio Lobo
1970 · Title Designer
