Quite scarce vintage inscribed blue fountain pen signature on a 4x6-inch off-white card, acquired in-person by inveterate collector John Virzi in the 1960s and decorated with a small Players Directory image. In good condition. Enormous, baleful, raspy-voiced character actor Thomas Gomez played a mixed bag of merciless heavies and rascally sidekicks in films like Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942); Arabian Nights (1942); White Savage (1943); Phantom Lady (1944); horror's The Climax (1944) and Dead Man's Eyes (1944); Ride the Pink Horse (1947), for which he was Oscar-nominated; Key Largo (1948); Force of Evil (1948); Come to the Stable (1949); Trapeze (1956); and Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970).  He was also memorable as the courtly devil on the classic "Twilight Zone" episode entitled "Escape Clause" (1959). Gomez died of a heart attack at the age of 65 and his autograph is rather elusive in any format.

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