Impossible to find vintage 8x10-inch sepia-tone portrait by Raymor or Chicago, boldly signed and inscribed in black fountain in Hollywood, California, in the late 1920s. In good condition for its age and just the second signed portrait of the star we have ever encountered. John Wray was one of Hollywood's most versatile character actors, memorable as a mixed bag of bad guys and heartbreaking every-man types in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), The Miracle Man (1932), Doctor X (1932), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Death Kiss (1932) with Bela Lugosi, Green Eyes (1934), The Cat's-Paw (1934), The Great Hotel Murder (1935), The Frisco Kid (1935), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Poor Little Rich Girl (1936), Gangs of New York (1938), Boys Town (1938), Gone with the Wind (1939), Each Dawn I Die (1939), Golden Boy (1939), The Cat and the Canary (1939), Swiss Family Robinson (1940), and The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940).

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