Quite scarce vintage 8x10-inch black and white publicity portrait as Robby Roberg in the World War II picture Okinawa (1952), boldly signed and inscribed in blue fountain pen for noted collector Ray Ward in the 1950s or early 1960s. In good condition, with a few minor handling dings. Welsh-born character actor Rhys Williams played jovial, energized, hotheaded types in films like How Green Was My Valley (1941), This Above All (1942), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Gentleman Jim (1942), Random Harvest (1942), The Corn Is Green (1945), Blood on the Sun (1945), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), The Spiral Staircase (1945), The Farmer's Daughter (1947), The Black Arrow (1948), Tokyo Joe (1949), the horror flick The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951), Les Miserables (1952), Johnny Guitar (1954), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), Battle Cry (1955), and Raintree County (1957).

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