Cat. #00058: SIDNEY BRACY

Highly rare vintage pencil signature on a 4x5-inch pink album page, acquired in-person in 1932. In good condition for its age, with some light surface crinkles. Note that the image of the star shown alongside the scan of the autograph here is not actually included. Alternatively credited as Sidney Bracy and Sidney Bracey, the craggy-faced character actor appeared in nearly 350 silent and early talkie films, playing clerks, butlers, aristocrats, military men, waiters, physicians, valets, and assorted relatives. He was a major contributor to the horror, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, and crime film genres and a frequent collaborator with Tod Browning, popping up in The Invisible Ray (1920); The Haunted House (1928); The Black Bird (1926), While the City Sleeps (1928) and The Unholy Three (1930) with Lon Chaney; Outside the Law (1930); The Phantom of Paris (1931); The Monster Walks (1932); Freaks (1932); The Monkey's Paw (1933); The Little Giant (1933); The Vanishing Shadow (1934); The Ninth G