WALTER HIERS PHOTOGRAPH

Vintage head shot

 

9 3/8" x 7 1/4", sepia tone, double weight

by 

Melbourne Spurr 

blind stamp lower right

Condition: very good

Signed and inscribed in purple ink:

 

"To Mr. Richardson!  /  With about 225 pounds of my heartiest wishes - /

"Fat " fully yours - Walter Hiers"

 

 

Walter Hiers was an American silent film actor who died of pneumonia aged 39. He began his film career

with the Biograph Company under the direction of D.W. Griffith. In his twenty year career, from 1912 to  

 1932, he starred in 101 films. In 1925 he made Excuse Me that starred Norma Shearer.

Born: 1893, Cordele, Georgia; died: 1933, Los Angeles, California.

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