Extremely rare vintage pencil signature as "Bill Hopper," as was his custom when signing, on a roughly 4x5-inch pale grey autograph album page, acquired in-person in the late 1940s or early 1950s. In good condition. 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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