Scarce vintage 5x7-inch sepia-tone portrait, boldly signed with his name alone in black fountain pen in the 1930s. In good condition. Before his tragic death in his sleep of undisclosed caused at the age of 55, reliable supporting actor Frank Albertson played energetic, wisecracking reporters, cabbies, cousins, politicians, and business men in films like Ah, Wilderness! (1935), Fury (1936), The Ghost Comes Home (1940), Lon Chaney Jr.'s Man Made Monster (1941), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), The Enemy Below (1957), Alfred Hitchcock's horror classic Psycho (1960), and Bye Bye Birdie (1963).

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