EXTREMELY rare vintage 8x10-inch sepia-tone portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in the 1920s. In fine condition for its age, with a diagonal crease to the upper left-hand area, some surface scuffs and light silvering, but so impossible to find as to render these flaws negligible. Tully Marshall, cadaverous character actor of the stage, and silent and early talkie screens, played a motley crew of drunken trail scouts, lovable grandpas, unforgiving fathers, sinister attorneys, and lecherous aristocrats.  He was memorable as the High Priest in D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916), Count Mancini in the Lon Chaney classic He Who Gets Slapped (1924), Roger Crosby in Paul Leni's silent horror classic The Cat and the Canary (1927), William Townsend in The Gorilla (1927), the Ambassador in The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929), Muff Potter in Tom Sawyer (1930), Robert Daniels in the thrilled Strangers in the Evening (1932), Richard Rinehart in the early Bela Lugosi flick Night of Terror (1933), and wheelchair-bound criminal mastermind Alvin Brewster in This Gun for Hire (1942).  He also appeared in over 50 silent and early talkie comedy shorts and full-length features, including The Slim Princess (1920) with Mabel Normand.

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