WILLIAM GARGAN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 344045
Sale Price $315.00
Reg. $380.00
WILLIAM GARGAN
The stage and screen actor who played Martin Kane, Private Eye
signs this black and white photograph
Photograph signed: "Sincerely/William Gargan" in blue ink.
8x10. William Gargan (1905-1979, born in Brooklyn, New York) was an
Oscar-nominated American actor with over 100 TV shows and movies to his
credit between 1928 and 1958. Gargan started as a stage actor in 1924 and
appeared on Broadway a year later in Aloma of the South Seas (1925),
his first of eight Broadway appearances. His first film appearance was a bit
part in 1928's Lucky Boy, with his first starring role in 1932's
Rain. He played high-energy, extroverted leads in B-movies during the
1930s, moving to character roles in the 1940s. He moved to TV in 1949;
his most well-known role there was probably Martin Kane in Martin Kane,
Private Eye (1949-1951) and The New Adventures of Martin Kane,
Private Eye (1957-1958). Gargan lost his larynx to cancer in 1960, which
ended his acting career; his final role was as a mute clown in TV's The King
of Diamonds. He devoted himself to the American Cancer Society after losing
his speech and published an autobiography in 1969 about his fight with cancer
entitled Why Me?. Toned. Surface defects from moisture. Light surface
creases. Adhesive residue on upper left corner. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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