Mischa Auer Autographs
Mischa Auer (born Mikhail Semyonovich Unkovsky, Russian: Михаил Семёнович Унковский; 17 November 1905 – 5 March 1967) was a Russian-American actor who moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s. He first appeared in film in 1928. Auer had a long career playing in many of the era's best known films. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1936 for his performance in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey, which led to further zany comedy roles. He later moved into television and acted in films again in France and Italy well into the 1960s.
Auer was born in St. Petersburg, Russia to a Jewish family. His name is usually seen as Mischa Ounskowsky, Mischa being the German transliteration of Misha (the diminutive form of Mikhail), and Ounskowsky being the French transliteration of his surname (with an unexplained additional "s").\nAuer's father was an Imperial Russian Navy officer Semyon Ivanovich Unkovsky (1871–1921) and his mother was Zoya Lvovna Unkovskaya (née Auer), the eldest daughter of the Hungarian-born violinist Leopold Auer. Contrary to the popular belief, his father did not die when Mischa was three years old. Semyon Unkovsky left Zoya Auer and married her sister, Maria Lvovna Auer (they had a son, also named Mischa (Mikhail Unkovsky) (1904–1940), Russian actor, arrested in 1938 on counter-revolutionary charges and died in forced labour camp in Kolyma). Semyon Unkovsky retired from the Navy in 1906 and settled in Kaluga, Russia, where he died in 1921. Leopold Auer emigrated to the United States after the Russian Revolution. Mischa Auer and his mother became separated, but were reunited during the Russian Civil War. She, however, died of typhus. Auer was able to contact his grandfather, who brought him to the United States in August 1920.
Auer began performing on the stage in the 1920s in Bertha Kalich's Thalia Yiddish Theater, then moved to Hollywood, where he first appeared in 1928 in Something Always Happens. He appeared in several small, mostly uncredited roles into the 1930s, appearing in such films as Rasputin and the Empress, Viva Villa!, The Yellow Ticket, the George Gershwin musical Delicious, the Paramount Pictures all-star revue Paramount on Parade and The Lives of a Bengal Lancer.
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Traded items with a signature of Mischa Auer
The most expensive item with a signature of Mischa Auer (MISCHA AUER - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH) was sold in December 2025 for $175.00 while the cheapest item (Mischa Auer signed cards TWO) found a new owner for $5.00 in June 2011. The month with the most items sold (2) was June 2011 with an average selling price of $10.00 for an autographed item of Mischa Auer. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in December 2025 with $175.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $6.99 was February 2012. In average, an autographed item from Mischa Auer is worth $30.00.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Mischa Auer were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | ? Mischa Auer “My Man Godfrey” Signed Autograph Album Page ? | $59.99 |  |
| Mary Boland/Mischa Auer Signed 8x10 Photo BW Vintage Hollywood Universal | $35.00 | |
| MISCHA AUER (d.1967) Signed Album Page-Actor-My Man Godfrey-PSA Authenticated | $39.99 | |
| Mischa Auer + Wanda Auer *Autograph *Signature *Actor *1930s NYC VTG | $39.98 | |
| MISCHA AUER - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH | $175.00 | |
| Mischa Auer - Signed Autograph Book Page - Russian Actor d.1969 | $45.98 | |
| Mischa Auer Rare Very Early Autographed 7/9 Photo 30s My Man Godfrey DestryRides | $142.99 | |
 | Mischa Auer Signed 8x10 1939 Press Photo East Side of Heaven t378 | $37.99 | |
| MISCHA AUER Signed Autographed 4"x 6" INDEX CARD My Man Godfrey SEVEN SINNERS | $24.98 | |
| MISCHA AUER—SIGNED PHOTO—Oscar Nom—My Man Godfrey—“Destry”—Capra—Lubitsch—Garbo | $101.00 | |
 | RUSSIAN-AMERICAN CHARACTER ACTOR MISCHA AUER, SIGNED VINTAGE STUDIO PHOTO | $88.49 | |
 | Vintage Mischa Auer Signed 8x10 Photo The Rage Of Paris s319 | $35.98 | |
| Vintage Mischa Auer Signed Photo | $40.00 | |
| Vintage MISCHA AUER Signed Photo | $30.00 | |
| “My Man Godfrey” Mischa Auer Hand Signed 2X3.5 Card | $99.99 | |
