Vintage inscribed green fountain pen signature on a 3x5-inch white card, acquired in-person by inveterate collector Ken Smith in the 1950s or 1960s.  In good condition.  Note that the image of the actor accompanying the scan of the autograph here is not actually included with the signed item.  Considered one of the greatest character actors in British cinema history, Sir Maurice Denham's extensive career included memorable roles in Take My Life (1947), Blanche Fury (1948), Oliver Twist (1948), The Blind Goddess (1948), Madness of the Heart (1949), The Spider and the Fly (1949), Animal Farm (1954), horror's Night of the Demon (1954), Our Man in Havana (1959), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Paranoiac (1960), The Alphabet Murders (1965), and Torture Garden (1967).  He was also noteworthy, opposite Jeremy Brett, in a classic episode of the Grenada Television Sherlock Holmes series entitled "The Last Vampyre" (1989).

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