Vintage 8x10-inch black and white double-weight portrait in his prime, signed and inscribed in blue ballpoint pen, probably in the 1960s. In good condition for its age. Tall, athletic leading man Edmund Lowe's imposing physique, debonair manner and sartorial elegance made him a popular matinée idol during the silent era, memorable in The Devil (1921) and East of Suez in 1925.  In 1926, he was cast against type as the brash, profane Sergeant Harry Quirk in Maxwell Anderson's World War I drama What Price Glory (1926), after which he was called upon to play both romantic lead and tough guy roles.  The star was noteworthy as Stanley Gordon, opposite Leila Hyams, in the early horror flick The Wizard (1927); the titular hypnotist and yogi in the Bela Lugosi flick Chandu the Magician (1932); and in In Old Arizona (1928), The Spider (1931), The Cisco Kid (1931), Guilty as Hell (1932), The Devil is Driving (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), The Garden Murder Case (1936), Mad Holiday (1936), Doomed Cargo (1936), Murder in Times Square (1943), The Enchanted Forest (1945), the controversial Dillinger (1945), and the fantasy favorite Around the World in Eighty Days (1956).

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