Rare roughly 2.5 x 3.5-inch black and white portrait, looking characteristically campy, boldly signed in black ink in the 1930s. In good condition. Madcap, hammy British actor is remembered by horror fans as the screen's first Sweeney Todd in The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936), and was unforgettable in Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938), The Face At The Window (1939), Crimes At The Dark House (1940), the Todd shorts Bothered by a Beard (1945) and Puzzle Corner No. 14 (1952), Strangler's Morgue (1946), Horror Maniacs (1948), The Greed of William Hart (1948), Spring-Heeled Jack (1950),  A Ghost for Sale (1954), and Murder At Scotland Yard (1952).

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