The guy who played Pinhead in Hellraiser. I cherish the photo so much, I have absolutely no clue where it is now.
I also have an autographed Calvin and Hobbes treasury, of which I am much prouder.
Robin Curtis.
I even have a picture of us standing together. Cheeky monkey that I am, I’m doing the “raised fingers behind the head” bit to her, though my hand is forming a Vulcan salute.
I think Oded Fehr is the bee’s knees and a friend sent me an autographed photo of him for my birthday last year.
Lesse… a Mel Brooks headshot, a Claudia Christian headshot, plus Alec Guinness in front of the Bridge on the River Kwai.
Also a book signed by Alton Brown, in which he instructs me to keep working on my cheesecake.
My cheesecake is a thread unto itself.
Oooooh, he is the bee’s knees. :::::swoon::::::::
I only have the autograph from Alan B. Shepard to my four older brothers. It’s kinda cool and hangs on the wall in my office.
Michael Chang - although it’s really my sister’s. I actually just found this when I was going through my desk.
The jazz band Sex Mob. Went to their show at my University, thought they were cool, got it autographed.
I don’t have any autographed pictures, but a few autographs I’m proud (?) of:
Woody Herman: my first autograph, when I was 12 and the Thundering Herd played a concert at my school.
Brian Sipe: Cleveland Browns quarterback in the late 70s. My uncle sat next to him on an airplane and got him to sign a drink napkin.
Kansas band members Kerry Livgren and Dave Hope. I was a huge Kansas fan in high school (though their glory days were long past). At the time of the autographs, 1984, Livgren and Hope weren’t in the band; they were in a Christian rock band called A.D. I went to Ichthus (a Christian-rock festival in Wilmore, Kentucky) with my youth group, and my friends and I skulked around backstage and pounced on the poor fellows.
My mother has an autographed picture of Jimmy Stewart. He was sort of a family member (rather distantly, by marriage), and around 1957 he sent autographed pictures to all the “relatives” he hadn’t gotten around to meeting. Neither Mom nor I ever met him, unfortunately.
I have a signed pic of the band Seven Seconds. I have no idea why I asked them to sign it, as I’m not into collecting autographs. Unless it’s a book, that is.
Charles & Lavinia Stratton (aka General and Mrs. Tom Thumb http://www.csicop.org/sb/9912/fig1-icon.jpg ) on the back of a souvenir postcard from Barnum’s Museum which I bought at a junk shop in south Alabama for $10. While it’s not worth a fortune due to its so-so condition and the fact that there are still many Tom Thumb autographs in existence, it’s still one of my favorite finds ever.
John Major. I have no frickin clue why. I never even met the man.
Doug DeCinces (photo and ball)
Bruce Kison
Cal Ripken, Jr
Bill Ripken
Jim Palmer
Nolan Ryan
Mark Fidrych
Reggie Jackson
Catfish Hunter
Jim Palmer
Mike Morgan (on a baseball, actually)
David Seaman, a photo from when he was still with Arsenal
Dick Schofield (father and son each)
Larry Bowa (who also signed one of my school progress report thingies, a baseball, a scorecard, some other things over the years)
Greg Luzinski
the 1976 Phillies on a baseball
Bob Boone
Tug McGraw
Warren Brewstar
Judy Blume
Joe Biden
Jim O’Brien, who was the weatherman for WPVI in Philadelphia
Tom Baker (who signed the picture, ‘To the Doctor, from the Doctor,’ when I told him ‘The Doctor’ was one of the people in my disseratation dedication!)
Some other music ones, but I’d have to run upstairs to look…crikey, I didn’t realise I had so many baseballers…
Humphre Bogart. Unfortunately it’s not to me, I’m not quite that old, it’s one of those 8x10 publicity stills the studios used to send out.
I do have an autographed cookbook by Justin Wilson (The cajun chef) though.
What?
That would be Humphrey Bogart!
I need to get more sleep.
and Lefty Gomez
Favorite of Grandfather’s.
Judy Blume? That is awesome. Such a cool girls club to be in-
Met Madeline L’Engle a few years ago at a book signing-didn’t stand in the long line for an autograph. Regrets.
A local radio deejay I became good friends with when I was about 16. he was sorta like a mentor. he moved away and we wrote for years.
A friend got me an autographed picture of VNV Nation signed to me because I turned her onto their music.
** Tori Amos **, ** Viggo Mortensen **, and then **Andy Serkis ** and ** Richard Taylor ** signed my Two Towers DVD.
Has anybody ever been to a celebrity autograph show, incidentally? Those are somehow exhilirating and creepy at the same time. I was amazed at some of the bigger names who show up (Ed Asner, Val Kilmer) and at some of the “I hadn’t thought of her in 20 years” people (Bunny from GOMER PYLE USMC, Penny Singleton, etc.). From the number of people there, they evidently rack up and since most of it is cash it’s probably essentially tax free, so a nice way to supplement a career that’s not sizzling I suppose. (Bernard “Dr. Bombay” Fox must have easily cleared several thousand dollars as his table was always mobbed.)
No photos, and I doubt buying pre-signed books really counts for the purposes of the OP (although I do have Neil Gaiman’s signature).
However, one I got myself and which I prize highly is Allen Ginsburg’s scrawl in my copy of Howl. I met him at a fundraising concert he and Philip Glass were doing for the Jewel Heart Foundation shortly before his death, a magnificent occasion.
The same book, incidentally, also bears Glass’s signature. Very cool.
Ta! I got her signature when I was 10, in 1975 – I’d had a children’s magazine what had run a story on her, and at the end had a little thingie where you could send as SAE to get her signature on a sort of PR sheet…what impressed me was the beautiful blue turquoise ink she wrote with – it hasn’t faded!