Rare vintage thick pencil signature on a 4x6-inch pink autograph album page, acquired in-person in the 1930s. In good condition, with two minute flecks of soiling. 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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