Rare vintage 7x9-inch black and white publicity portrait in his prime, boldly signed and inscribed in black felt-tip marker in the 1980s. In good condition, with trimming to all four sides. Prolific, suave, Mexican-born character actor George J. Lewis was terrific in a mixed bag of A- and B-level features and cliffhangers, including Captain Blood (1924), Devil’s Island (1926), Beware of Spooks! (1939), It Started with Eve (1941), Perils of Nyoka (1942), The Falcon’s Brother (1942), Phantom Killer (1942), Casablanca (1942), G-Men vs. the Black Dragon (1943), They Got Me Covered (1943), Flesh and Fantasy (1943), Batman (1943), The Masked Marvel (1943), Tarzan’s Desert Mystery (1943), Strange Confession (1944), Captain America (1944), Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944), The Tiger Woman (1944), Raiders of Ghost City (1944), Haunted Harbor (1944), Zorro’s Black Whip (1944), The White Gorilla (1945), Lady on a Train (1945), Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946), The Phantom Rider (1946), Gilda (1946), The Ghost of Zorro (1949), Radar Patrol vs. Spy King (1949), Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951), and Viva Zapata! (1952).

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