DETAILS:Originalhand signed portraitphotograph ofCharley Grapewin.Circa 1940. Type 1 photo is printed on double weight photographic paper. Measures 8" x 10" inches. Please see item images for further details.
BIOGRAPHY: Charles Ellsworth Grapewin (1869–1956) was an American vaudeville and circus performer, writer, and stage and prolific film actor. As a character actor, he worked in over one-hundred motion pictures during the silent and sound eras, mainlyas a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player during the 1930s and is best known to modern audiences for portraying Uncle Henry in MGM's film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz (1939), "Grandpa" William James Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (1941), Uncle Salters in Captains Courageous (1937), Gramp Maple in The Petrified Forest (1936), Wang's Father in The Good Earth (1937), and California Joe in They Died With Their Boots On (1941).
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