Scarce vintage black fountain pen signature on a 4x5-inch pale grey autograph album page, acquired in-person in the 1940s. In good condition, with a stray ink mark above the writing. Great, large-and-in-charge Irish-born character actor Edwin Maxwell was a sort of poor man's Edward Arnold, playing an assortment of tough, but benevolent and utterly unscrupulous types.  He was a regular in horror, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, and crime flicks, memorable as Cyrus Stevens in The Gorilla (1930), the Chief Detective in Scarface (1932), Joe Worth in Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), the Maniac in Night of Terror (1933) with Bela Lugosi, Jason Osgood in The Ninth Guest (1934), and Kruger in Night Key (1936) with Boris Karloff.  His over 150 memorable silent and Golden Age credits in other genres include All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Daddy Long Legs (1931), The Magnificent Lie (1931), Scarface (1932), While Paris Sleep (1932), American Madness (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup (1933), This Side of Heaven (1934), The Cat's-Paw (1934), Cleopatra (1934), The Great Ziegfeld (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Fury (1936), Come and Get It (1936), Camille (1936), A Star Is Born (1937), You Can't Take It with You (1938), Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Way Down South (1939), Ninotchka (1939), Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), The Blue Bird (1940), Brigham Young (1940), Kit Carson (1940), The Devil and Miss Jones (1941), Blossoms in the Dust (1941), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Since You Went Away (1944), and The Jolson Story (1946).

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