Highly rare black ballpoint pen signature on a 3x5-inch tan card, dating to the early 1980s. In good condition, with some corner creases, well away from the writing, and ideal for matting with a favorite photograph. 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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