“He’s everywhere, but people don’t know who he is,” said Courtney Mico-Nelson, Fitzgerald’s stepdaughter and resident of Juneau.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
In recent years, Fitzgerald spoke in Juneau a handful of times while visiting Mico-Nelson.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“I really want his story to be told,” she added. “I just think he’s the best and the greatest.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
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<\/a>Late title sequence designer Wayne Fitzgerald, Courtney Mico-Nelson, Maryellen Courtney, Porter Nelson and Bodhi Nelson pose together in Juneau. Fitzgerald recently passed away, and Mico-Nelson wants his contributions to film and television to be remembered. Courtesy Photo | Courtney Mico-Nelson)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Fitzgerald’s filmography on the Internet Movie Database <\/a>contains a mind-boggling 462 credits, including Oscar-nominated films “The Graduate,” “Bonnie and Clyde”, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and goofier fare like “Dracula: Dead and Loving It,” “Kingpin” and “Beverly Hills Ninja” and hundreds of titles with a level of prestige somewhere in between.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “They don’t even have everything on there,” Mico-Nelson said. “Most of the TV stuff isn’t on there.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Mico-Nelson said she never heard her stepfather identify a particular film’s title sequence as his favorite, but both “The Electric Horseman” starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and Billy Crystal comedy “City Slickers” were among his more involved efforts.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t For “The Electric Horseman,” Mico-Nelson said Fitzgerald came up with the idea to depict Norman “Sonny” Steele (Redford) to show the former rodeo star in glory that’s mostly faded by the time of the events depicted in the movie.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “‘City Slickers’ was his most expensive title since it was animated,” Mico-Nelson said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “Bonnie and Clyde” is also a major work since after working on that movie, and at the insistence of Warren Beatty<\/a>, Fitzgerald started his own title design firm.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t By the time Fitzgerald came into Mico-Nelson’s life, she was 12, it was the early ’80s and Fitzgerald and his firm were well entrenched in the film industry.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t At that point, Fitzgerald’s title design firm had been in existence for more than a decade, and he had been working in Hollywood for a quarter-century.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
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