"William Reynold Brown (1917-1991) was a prolific American artist whose career embraced virtually every facet of the illustration field." (illustrated press)

Reynold Brown (1917 – 1991) was an American realist artist who painted many Hollywood film posters. He was also briefly active as a comics artist.

He attended Alhambra High School where he met cartoonist Hal Forrest around. Forrest hired Brown to ink (uncredited) Forrest's comic strip Tailspin Tommy.

Following the war Brown drew numerous advertisements and illustrations for magazines such as Argosy, Popular Science, and Saturday Evening Post.

Brown taught at the Art Center College of Design where he met Misha Kallis, then an art director at Universal Pictures. Through Kallis, Brown began his film poster work, then did the artwork for dozens of film posters, including: Ben Hur, Spartacus, War of the Zombies and many others.