Ihhave never asked nor otherwise seeked out an autograph in my life, yet somehow I ended up with…
Judith Hoag who played April O’Neal in the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. I was friends with her nephew for a while and when he asked if I wanted her autograph I said “sure”.
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Joseph Barbara of Hanna-Barbera. My work put me in close proximity to him for a while, just a couple of years before he passed, and I think that he just signed pictures to give him something to do when he came in the office.
I think that’s it. Nothing all that exciting, even if I was the type to get excited about autographs.
Joe DiMaggio
I have a bass guitar autographed by Steve Vai, Tosin Abasi, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt, and Zakk Wylde. It was my first “real” instrument that I got for my 17th birthday, the bass that I learned on, and has been by my side my whole life. She’s retired and hangs on the wall in my studio.
Neil Armstrong - used to play celebrity golf tournaments.
Nana Visitor, Terry Farrell and Nicole de Boer.
I’d love to get one from Avery Brooks, but I don’t think he does that anymore.
I got the autographs of the original Black Sabbath lineup at a promo for their reunion tour in 99 or 2000. Ozzy smudged his marker so I got his fingerprint as a bonus.
Got my dad a Ted Nugent autograph since I knew he was a fan. He was at the local sportsman’s gear show, so I was cool with going to that anyway. I think that’s the first time I saw a live bald eagle up close, so that was really cool. Ted played some guitar, which was good, and then gave a really strange talk. I only later learned everything else about Ted other than he liked to hunt, so that is a very mixed experience in hindsight.
Got Jerry Lawler’s at a ComicCon where he was promoting his comic. Got Adam West’s there too.
The ex got the Ghost Hunters’ at a different ComicCon. She was very excited, but I had no idea who they were at the time.
When I was a kid I wrote to a few baseball rookies and got their autographs. I still have them somewhere, but nobody who ever became anybody. There was a player with the same name as me that I wrote a few times, but he never wrote back. Jerk.
Those are all the ones I can think of.
Alan Rickman, the entire Voyager cast and half the LOTR cast.
Afroman. We were watching the trial on the news and I asked myself “Does this dude still tour?”. Coincidentally, when I looked it up, he was going to be in the same tiny Midwest town we were visiting in only a few days, so I bought tickets. The guy is a born entertainer!
Josh Kennedy yesterday.
Tony Hawk and Steve-O
Medical professionals and justice of the peace for paperwork
I’ve got autographs with personal dedication from Terry Pratchett and Arthur C. Clarke. And a few others.
Brendan Frasier, although I haven’t actually met him in person. His mom worked at the same place as my mom, and they arranged to get me a signed Encino Man poster.
I have an autographed original drawing. Unfortunately, it’s a drawing of the Sandman, by Neil Gaiman. Yeah… I don’t have that on display in my house anymore.
I have in a trunk at my parents’ house that contains a fair number of autographs that I collected prior to my 18th birthday. Among them are Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, Deforest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, oh and William Shatner, I guess.
Yes, my parents like sci-fi, and D&D conventions. How’d you guess?
