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Tommy Cole Signed Mousketeer Photo from The Mickey Mouse Club

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Tommy Cole Signed Mousketeer Photo from The Mickey Mouse Club
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Black and white glossy 8" x 10" Mouseketeer portrait of Tommy Cole from The Mickey Mouse Club (1955-1957). Signed on the image by Tommy Cole in black ink. In fine condition.

(b.1941) Tommy Cole is an American make-up artist, a former actor and singer who is still best known for having been a Mouseketeer. Cole started as a musician, playing the accordion as a young teenager with three other kids in a western swing band. When the ensemble auditioned together at the Disney Studio for The Mickey Mouse Club in spring 1955, Cole was the only one chosen. He continued with the Mickey Mouse Club until the show ended in 1958. In 1963, Cole had started learning make-up technique from one of the show's regular artists. This new craft piqued his interest. He apprenticed and began freelancing as a make-up artist, eventually winning an Emmy in 1979 for Backstairs at the White House. Cole has since been nominated for Emmy awards for the miniseries Right to Die (1988), the television series Wings (1996), and most recently for the TV special, Gepetto (2000), for which he shared in winning the Hollywood Makeup Artists and Hairstylist Guild Award.