Highly rare vintage 8x10-inch black and white glossy portrait as Wing in Web of Danger (1947), boldly signed and inscribed in blue felt-tip pen in his later years. In good condition, with gentle edgewear and the name of the recipient annotated in the bottom area. Grim-faced China-born Richard Loo was one of the busiest character actors of the 1930s and 1940s, almost invariably cast as cold-as-ice villains of assorted Asian ethnicities. Among his countless movie and television credits were roles in The Mysterious Mr. Wong (1934), After the Thin Man (1936), The Good Earth (1937), Lost Horizon (1937), That Certain Woman (1937), West of Shanghai (1937), Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937), Shadows Over Shanghai (1938), Panama Patrol (1939), Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939), Lady of the Tropics (1939), Island of Lost Men (1939), Remember Pearl Harbor (1942), Road to Morocco (1942), The Falcon Strikes Back (1943), So Proudly We Hail! (1943), The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Cobra Strikes (1948), 5 Fingers (1952), Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), The Quiet American (1958), The Sand Pebbles (1966), and the James Bond classic The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).

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