Autographs

[Nora03]

Does anyone have any interesting autographs? I have one of Burton Cummings from The Guess Who from my teens. They regularly played our community club and high school teen dances, before they were famous. My Dad got Sammy Davis JR’s autograph when he met him on the golf course. I have it now. My DH and DD attended a lecture by Jane Goodall and my DD got her autograph.

 

[JaxDad]

I think I only have one real autograph. I met Katherine Ortega at a party, who was the U.S. Treasurer at the time. She signed a dollar bill for me right above her signature that was printed on the bill.

I do have a copy of a delivery manifest from when I was a FedEx courier. I delivered to three Pulitzer Prize winners in the span of 7 minutes—Richard Merrill, John Hersey, and Richard Wilbur.

I’ve met a couple other celebrities, but it seemed weird to ask for autographs during those times, so I didn’t.

 

[Dis_Fan]

I have a older Disney map (when they sent you personalized ones with your vacation planning) that has some autographs on it now.

Jess Harnell who has done Splash Mountain voices (among others)

Rob Paulsen who is in the Three Calabreros ride.

Fred Tatasciore, who has done Star Wars work in the parks.

 

[Squirlz]

Lots of race car drivers over the years. On my garage wall is my engine cover signed by Cadillac Racing drivers Johnny O'Connell, Andy Pilgrim and Jordan Taylor. Also Mario Andretti because he was just walking by and he's MARIO FREAKING ANDRETTI!!

 

[AndreaDM]

Only those I've seen in Broadway plays, I've hung around the stage door and had a few autograph my playbill.

 

[Praying Colonel]

I couldn't tell you where it is now, but I got Meadowlark Lemon's autograph when I was about 9. My parents took me to see the Harlem Globetrotters--we had great seats, 3rd row center court. After the game they all stuck around and did autographs. Great experience.

 

[Mysterian]

I had my Queen "News of the World" LP cover signed by the original artist, Frank Kelly Freas.

 

[seshat0120]

I've been fortunate to attend a number of sci fi cons, improv shows, and comedy shows over the years and have amassed quite a collection of in person autographs. I was going through them tonight and was surprised to see the total was 107 different actors/actresses. Some I have multiple times so it's actually over 107 individual autographs. Here's the list I put together. I've grouped them by the TV series/movie I have them filed by although some could have been in other things as well.

Once Upon A Time (24)
Andrew J. West, Beverly Elliott, Chris Gauthier, Colin O’Donoghue, Eion Bailey, Emilie de Ravin, Gil McKinney, Giles Matthey, Jaime Murray, Jared Gilmore, Jennifer Morrison, Karen David, Keegan Connor Tracy, Lana Parilla, Lee Arenberg, Michael Coleman, Raphael Sbarge, Rebecca Mader, Robbie Kay, Rose Reynolds, Sean Maguire, Sinqua Walls, Tiera Skovbye, and Victoria Smurfit

Star Trek (4)
Jimmy Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, and William Shatner

Star Trek Movies (1)
Robin Curtis

Star Trek: The Next Generation (8)
Brent Spiner, Denise Crosby, Gates McFadden, JG Hertzler, John DeLancie, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, and Robert O’Reilly

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (7)
Alexander Siddig, Armin Shimmerman, Casey Biggs, Chase Masterson, Nana Visitor, Rene Auberjenois, and Terry Farrell

Star Trek: Voyager (7)
Ethan Phillips, Garrett Wang, Jerri Ryan, Robert Beltran, Robert Duncan McNeill, Robert Picardo, and Tim Russ

Star Trek: Enterprise (7)
Anthony Montgomery, Connor Trinneer, Dominic Keating, Jeffrey Combs, John Billingsley, Scott Bakula, and Vaughn Armstrong

Star Wars (4)
David Prowse, Jeremy Bullock, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, and Warwick Davis

Stargate SG1 (18)
Alex Zahara, Amanda Tapping, Ben Browder, Carmen Argenziano, Christopher Judge, Cliff Simon, Corin Nemec, Dan Payne, David DeLuise, Erik Avari, Garry Chalk, Gary Jones, Jacqueline Samuda, Michael Shanks, Peter Williams, Suanne Braun, Terryl Rothery, and Tony Amendola

Stargate Atlantis (13)
Andee Frizzell, Chuck Campbell, David Hewlett, David Nykl, Jason Momoa, Jewel Staite, Joe Flannigan, Mitch Pileggi, Paul McGillion, Rachel Luttrell, Rainbow Sun Francks, Sharon Taylor, and Torrie Higginson

Stargate Universe (4)
Alaina Huffman, David Blue, Jamil Walker Smith, and Peter Kelamis

Whose Line Is It Anyway? (6)
Brad Sherwood, Charles (Chip) Esten, Colin Mochrie, Drew Carey, Greg Proops, and Ryan Stiles

Miscellaneous (4)
Bruce Boxleitner (Scarecrow & Mrs King; Babylon 5), Henry Winkler (Happy Days), John Schneider (Dukes of Hazzard), and Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica)

I've also met a number of Boston Bruins players that I have autographs of. I couldn't put my hands on them right away, so I didn't include them. I also have a few autographs that I either purchased through on eBay or through auctions at the cons (Mark Hamill being one) that I also didn't include since I didn't get them in person. I didn't realize quite how many I had until I started compiling the list tonight.

 

[sailorstitch]

I literally just got back from Comic Con! I went to meet Joey Fatone, but I also met Jim Cummings. And I got Brent Spiner's autograph for my best friend.

 

[bcla]

Jess Harnell who has done Splash Mountain voices (among others)

Rob Paulsen who is in the Three Calabreros ride.

This isn't mine though. In the 90s I went on a visit to a Warner Bros Studio Store (Santa Clara, California) where it was Rob Paulsen, Tress MacNielle, and Jess Harnell signing autographs. The line was really long, and they were claiming that they had to leave by a certain time and were offering pre-signed autographs for anyone willing to leave the line. However, my cousin was there and later I found out from him that they went way beyond the time that they said they would cut if off, although they did cut off the line entry after a certain time.

 

[bcla]

Not sure where it is. I've gotten a few baseball player autographs, but none are all that memorable other than one. I'm not Giants fan, but once my dad was on a business trip to San Diego, and he actually came across the San Francisco Giants flying back to San Francisco on the same flight. I find it remarkable since they were flying coach at the time. My dad said he wasn't asking, but some of the players were killing time and insisted on signing autographs. My dad got two players who signed on paper cups for Pacific Southwest Airlines. One name I forgot and can't be too memorable, but the other was Willie McCovey.

I guess one of the weird ones where I didn't actually ask for an autograph, but might have been able to. I was flying a redeye from San Francisco to Miami back in 2006 just before Tropical Storm Ernesto hit South Florida. But while waiting I saw something that really odd, which was then San Francisco Giants Manager Felipe Alou taking his shoes off to be checked at the gate. This was back when there were huge worries about shoe bombs. However, he seemed really polite and everything. One of his coaches was also on the same flight, but flying first class, but Alou was flying coach. When we got there, we were waiting for our bags at the same carousel and I think I said something to him about all bags looking about the same. Not sure what the deal was, as I found that the Giants next stop was Atlanta and somehow he flew by himself to Miami on their day off. I guess his home was in Miami, so he had something to attend to before rejoining the team.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

I’ve met a handful of celebrities (no one A List) but never in a context where I would’ve felt it appropriate to ask for their autograph. The one autograph I do have is from an actor in Boyz n the Hood, Redge Green, who signed my middle school yearbook many, many years ago. (I had to Google his name just now to answer this thread and holy cow, what a heartbreaking life story he has!)

When my husband was a kid he got Sugar Ray Leonard’s autograph while in Disney World and, at the encouragement of his father, rudely interrupted his meal to ask for it. He still feels guilty about it thirty-some years later.

 

[sasywtch]

I had a Polaroid (the 70s) of Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood when they were shooting a picture in Marina del Rey. They were taking a break, smoking a cigarette so I took a picture and had them sign it. I just looked it up online, it must have been the tv movie, The Affair.

 

[amcnj]

The only two I can think of right now are Mickey Mantle and JK Rowling. Both happened to come to stores in the town I grew up in. Mantle to a sporting goods store, and Rowling to a bookstore where she signed copies of her latest Harry Potter book. It isn’t a city by any means, around 12,000 residents, so I was always kind of surprised they stopped by there.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

From way back in the day: Lyle Alzado (former Denver Bronco) and David Thompson (former Denver Nugget), from a Read-a-thon dinner at Casa Bonita. Both signed a menu from CB; and Alzado signed a photo of him as well.

At one point, I had about 30 signatures from the '77 Broncos on a football, but my brother stole it and pawned it for drug money.

Signed Books (not preprinted signatures): Jim Butcher (five autographed books that he sent DH when DH had his nephrectomy/adrenalectomy); Shannon Butcher (his wife, signed one of her books and sent it to me); Bill Phillips (Body For Life guy; met him at casino in the early 2000s). DH (as a joke; he's listed in a book as a playtester for an RPG game, like D&D, that never really took off), and in that book, one of the editors signed it for us as well (she's how we 'met' the Butchers; we played Everquest with her and her husband). I think there are a few more books that DH has picked up along the way that are signed, but I honestly have no idea where they are.

At some point, we had whatshisname O'Reilly (fox news guy) and Scott Adams (Dilbert) books signed, but those went off to Goodwill a few years ago.

From my time at Johnny Rockets: Eddie Levert (from The O'Jays), Heath Ledger (he was so nice; left $100 tip), Scott Ian, Elijah Wood (didn't tip at all), Ludacris. They'd sign the paper hats (I kept the ones I got signed).

 

[slo]

Johnny Depp on a PoTC3 movie poster that is framed and hanging in my hallway. My DH got the poster signed when Johnny Depp was in Chicago while filming the movie Public Enemies.

My DH is the best with getting autographs - he should write a book about all the things he’s had signed over the years.

 

[sarahann77]

I've started to have collection early on, so much that in my tv productions class for the show we each had to create mine was on my autograph collection. Lately the decision of photo vs autograph where the photos were able to be gotten. Last year I found my main book and forgot I had met one. Last few years having opportunities for specialized conventions

Beverly Hills, 90210:
Brian Austin Green, Ian Ziering, Brooke Theiss

Soaps/Days of Our Lives:
Michael Easton, Patrick Muldoon, Drake Hogestyn, Paul Kersey, Ricky Paul Golden, Dylan Neal

Music Groups:
New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees, O-town

Misc:
Alfonso Ribeiro, Patty Duke, Wallace Shawn, Cary Elwes, Ed Begley Jr, Jeremy London, Robert England, Joey Fatone, Jeremy Piven

Scream:
Jamie Kennedy, Matthew Lilliard, Skeet Ulrich, Neve Campbell

Mickey Mouse Club - 90s:
Brandy Brown, Fred Newman, Rhona Bennett, Roque Herring, Damon Pampolina, Dale Godboldo, Tony Lucca, Blain Carson, Jason Minor, Marc Worden Chasen Hampton, Lindsey Alley, Jennifer McGill, Deedee Magno Hall, David Kater, Kevin Osgood, Nita Booth, Mylin Brooks, Tasha Danner, TJ Fantini

Walking Dead:
Michael Cudlitz, Nadia Hilker, Chandler Riggs, Callan Mcauliff, Katelyn Nacon, Ryan Hurst, Ross Marquand, Tom Payne

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I have a bunch of Philadelphia Flyers (hockey) player autographs. There's a bar in South Philly they go to sometimes after games, and my brother-in-law tends bar there on the weekends. The only problem is that most of the autographs are on cocktail napkins or coasters. I have them stored away in a closet because I don't want them to fade.

 

[CdnCarrie]

I don't have any but oh yes Burton. My husband use to know him. He's the character.

 

[ratherbeshiny]

Wow, these are some collections!

I have a few from the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King world premiere red carpet, which now I'm thinking about I have not seen in years. I expect (and hope!) they are at my parents house, as I was 15 at the time.