Trivia

Every Fitzgerald deal was done with a handshake and he never had a written contract. He got "stiffed" for $5,000 just once.

Father of Eric Fitzgerald.

Four of the five films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar in 1968 had title designs made by Fitzgerald: In the Heat of the Night (1967), The Graduate (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and Bonnie and Clyde (1967).

Fitzgerald contribute with the titles design of 24 films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Diary of Anne Frank (1959), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), My Fair Lady (1964), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), In the Heat of the Night (1967), The Graduate (1967), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Funny Girl (1968), Chinatown (1974), The Conversation (1974), The Godfather Part II (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Goodbye Girl (1977), The Turning Point (1977), Heaven Can Wait (1978), The Deer Hunter (1978), Apocalypse Now (1979), Reds (1981), Terms of Endearment (1983), The Big Chill (1983), The Godfather Part III (1990), Ghost (1990), Scent of a Woman (1992). Of those films, six are winners in the category: My Fair Lady (1964), In the Heat of the Night (1967), The Godfather Part II (1974), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Deer Hunter (1978) and Terms of Endearment (1983).

First show business job was at Pacific Title & Art, which did all the main titles for Warner Bros., MGM and Fox films and for some Paramount and Columbia movies as well.

Launched Wayne Fitzgerald FilmDesign Inc. in 1968.

Graduated in 1951 from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Served in submarines during the Korean War.