Highly scarce vintage signature in bold pencil on a 4.5 x 7-inch tan autograph album page, acquired in-person in the 1920s.  In good condition, with some stray pencil marks and gentle soiling to the bottom area.  The extraordinarily prolific character actor played physicians, clerics, townspeople, military men, cops, reporters, clerks, politicians, bartenders, and prospectors in over 300 silent and Golden Age films in a career spanning almost 60 years.  His countless credits, many of them in B-pictures, include The Dream Lady (1918), Great Diamond Mystery (1924), Easy Pickings (1927), The Flyer (1928), The Apache (1928), The Charlatan (1929), Heroes of the West (1932), the sci-fi flick Deluge (1933), The Vanishing Shadow (1934), The Mighty Barnum (1934), Annie Oakley (1935), Chinatown Squad (1935), Captured in Chinatown (1935), Les Miserables (1935), The Crime of Dr. Forbes (1936), The Preview Murder Mystery (1936), Smashing the Spy Ring (1938), the Boris Karloff horror flick The Ape (1940), Meet the Wildcat (1940), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Kid Glove Killer (1942), Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), Mr. Skeffington (1944), A Stolen Life (1946), Deception (1946), Night and Day (1946), Possessed (1947), Nora Prentiss (1947), The Unfaithful (1947), My Wild Irish Rose (1947), Whiplash (1948), Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948), Samson and Delilah (1949), The Fountainhead (1949), Flaxy Martin (1949), Backfire (1950), The Great Caruso (1951), The Enforcer (1951), The System (1953), The Seven Little Foys (1955), Anything Goes (1956), Pal Joey (1957), and Chamber of Horrors (1966). 

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