MICHAEL PATE - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 09/27/2004 - HFSID 325033
Sale Price $135.00
Reg. $160.00
MICHAEL PATE
The Australian actor signs a note to a fan in 2004.
Autograph note signed: "27-09-04/Dear Jim/Have your old
[illegible] will do/ MP", in black ink, 3x3 attached to 3x5 card (2
surfaces). Michael Pate (1920-2008, born in Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia) made his first movie appearance in an uncredited role in
1940's 40,000 Horsemen. It was the first of Pate's 160-plus acting
credits in TV shows and films. Often cast in villainous roles, Pate had
memorable appearances as Vittoro the Apache chief in 1953's Hondo
(a role he reprised for the 1967 TV adaptation), as CIA agent Felix
Leiter (renamed "Clarence") in the 1954 TV adaptation of Ian Fleming's first
James Bond novel Casino Royale, and as Australian sailor Lt.
Reginald Evans in PT 109 (1963). Pate was also an occasional producer
and screenwriter. Among his credits behind the camera are as screenwriter,
producer and director (his sole directing credit) on Tim (1979), an
adaptation of Colleen McCullough's novel which featured an early performance by
Mel Gibson. Pencil note (unknown hand) at top edge. Fine
condition.
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