Ultra-rare vintage inscribed green fountain pen signature on a 4x4-inch grey album page, acquired in-person in the 1920s. In good condition, with the right edge unevenly trimmed, where it was removed from the original autograph book. Accompanied by a small computer-printed image. Perhaps best remembered as the 6-foot-tall police officer who relentlessly pursues Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in The Kid (1921), boxer-turned-character actor Tom Wilson played servants, hooligans, cops, wardens, bouncers, porters, military men, athletes, pirates, vagrants, barflies, and other supporting roles in scores of silent comedies and dramas, sometimes made up in blackface. Among his nearly 300 film credits were classic films like Intolerance (1916); Douglas Fairbanks' The Americano (1917) and Wild and Woolley (1917); Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant (1917) and Shoulder Arms (1918); Colleen Moore's Dinty (1920); Lloyd Hamilton's His Darker Self (1924); Buster Keaton's Battling Butler (1926); the Our Gang short Bring Home the Turkey (1927); and His Lady (1928).

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