Extremely rare 5x7-inch black and white portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in violet fountain pen in the early 1940s. In good condition for its age. Best remembered for his portrayal of Marshal Micah Torrance on T.V.'s "The Rifleman" (1958-1963), character actor Paul Fix appeared in nearly 350 films and television episodes from the silent era through his death in 1983, memorable as a mixed bag of no-good hoods and authority figures in Scarface (1932), The Sphinx (1933), The Mad Game (1934), The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936), Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936), Phantom Patrol (1936), After the Thin Man (1936), Winterset (1936), The Buccaneer (1938), Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938), King of Alcatraz (1938), horror's Dr. Cyclops (1940) and Black Friday (1940) with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, The Ghost Breakers (1940), Hold That Ghost (1941), Hitler-- Dead or Alive (1942), Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1942), Captive Wild Woman (1943), Angel and the Badman (1947), Force of Evil (1948), Wake of the Red Witch (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Hondo (1953), Johnny Guitar (1954), The Bad Seed (1956), Giant (1956), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), El Dorado (1966), and Zabriskie Point (1966).

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