Uncommon 8x10-inch black and white portrait, boldly signed in purple felt-tip pen in the late 1970s or early 1980s. In good condition, with one minor corner crease. Busy character actor Don Beddoe played fast-talking, mousy types in hundreds of films across a 50-year career. Highlights include Flying G-Men (1939), Mandrake the Magician (1939), The Man They Could Not Hang (1939), Golden Boy (1939), Scandal Sheet (1939), the Three Stooges' You Nazsty Spy! (1940), Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940), Before I Hang (1940), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), Another Part of the Forest (1948), Flame of Youth (1949), Caged (1950), Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), The Night of the Hunter (1955), and Pillow Talk (1959).

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