Cat. #0038512: WYNDHAM STANDING

Scarce vintage 3.25 x 5.5-inch black and white English postcard portrait, boldly signed and inscribed in black fountain pen in the late 1910s. In fine condition, with minor edgewear. Veteran silent and early talkie character actor Wyndham Standing-- the brother of Sir Guy Standing-- had a memorable role in Tod Browning's horror classic Dracula (1931), as the surgeon who examines Frances Dade's corpse and alerts everyone to "those two little marks on her neck!"  He was elsewhere noteworthy in Smilin' Through (1922), The Unchastened Woman (1925), the Sherlock Holmes flick A Study in Scarlet (1933), Imitation of Life (1934), The Man in the Iron Mask (1939), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), and Green Dolphin Street (1947).