Extremely rare vintage 8x10-inch black and white portrait-- one of the small number we have encountered which were not signed by his secretary-- boldly signed and inscribed in black fountain pen in the 1940s. In good condition for its age. Before his early death from pneumonia following a stroke, authoritative character actor William Hopper was noteworthy in Dick Tracy (1937), Stagecoach (1939), Angels Wash Their Faces (1939), The Return of Doctor X (1939), The Maltese Falcon (1941), They Died with Their Boots On (1941), The Body Disappears (1941), Lady Gangster (1942), Larceny, Inc. (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Rebel without a Cause (1955), The Bad Seed (1956), The Deadly Mantis (1957), and 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), and as Paul Drake on T.V.'s "Perry Mason" (1957-1966). 

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