Rather scarce vintage inscribed black fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch yellow autograph album page, acquired in-person in the 1940s. In good condition. Stern-faced character actor Eduard Franz, who began his career as a commercial artist and performer in operettas, was memorable onscreen as an assortment of evil and avuncular authority figures in films like The Iron Curtain (1948), Wake of the Red Witch (1948), Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949), The Magnificent Yankee (1950), the sci-fi favorite The Thing from Another World (1951), The Desert Fox (1951), Sins of Jezebel (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956), The Miracle (1959), horror's The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), Francis of Assisi (1961), and Harari! (1962).