Original SAG Logo

Most Guild members have never seen this logo, but it was used exclusively from 1933 until the latter 1950's (when the first version of the "mask" logo of today was devised), then jointly with the "mask" logo until the end of 1965. Depicting a torch (symbolizing liberty, knowledge, the light of truth) bracketed by two halves of a laurel wreath, (symbolizing victory) it was created, appropriately, by an actor: Guild founding member #11, Ivan Simpson, then 58 years old, who was asked to "design a suitable coat-of-arms" for the Guild. In its first incarnation, the torch was bracketed by what appear to be grains of wheat, soon replaced by the more appropriately symbolic laurel.