Highly rare vintage signature in black fountain pen on a 2x5-inch yellow autograph album page, acquired in-person in 1947. In good condition, with a minor stain to the lower left-hand corner tip. Estonian-born character actor Ivan Triesault excelled at playing exotic foreign leaders and villains in films like Mission to Moscow (1943), The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943), The Hitler Gang (1944), the horror gems The Mummy's Ghost (1944) and Cry of the Werewolf (1944), Notorious (1946), Johnny Allegro (1949), 5 Fingers (1952), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), The Buster Keaton Story (1957), The Young Lions (1958), sci-fi's The Amazing Transparent Man (1960), and Von Ryan's Express (1965).

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