Virtually impossible to find vintage signature in black fine-tip pen, give alongside that of fellow actor Judith Malina, on a detached 7x10-inch cover for a 1984 issue of the avant-garde theater magazine Third Rail, acquired in-person at a book signing event around the time of publication, we believe to fund his treatment for the cancer with which he had been diagnosed the previous year. In good condition and just the third we've acquired in 30 years. Note that the image of the star shown here alongside the scan of the autograph is not included. Innovative, eccentric playwright and theater actor Julian Beck made only a small number of forays into cinema, achieving a kind of immortality with his authentically terrifying portrayal of baleful, skeletal, hollow-eyed preacher Henry Kane in Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986). Three years into a battle with stomach cancer during its filming, he died prior to its release in 1986, aged only 60 years.

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