Richard Kiley Autographs
Richard Paul Kiley (March 31, 1922 – March 5, 1999) was an American stage, film, and television actor and singer. He is best known for his distinguished theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Kiley originated the role of Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and was the first to sing and record "The Impossible Dream", the hit song from the show. In the 1953 hit musical Kismet, he played the Caliph in the original Broadway cast and as such was one of the quartet who sang "And This Is My Beloved". He also won four Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards during his five-decade career and his "sonorous baritone" was also featured in the narration of a number of documentaries and other films. At the time of his death, Kiley was described as "one of theater's most distinguished and versatile actors" and as "an indispensable actor, the kind of performer who could be called on to play kings and commoners and a diversity of characters in between."
Kiley was born to an Irish-American Catholic family on March 31, 1922, in Chicago. He graduated from Mt. Carmel High School in 1939, and after a year at Loyola University Chicago he left to study acting at Chicago's Barnum Dramatic School. He served as a gunner instructor for the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1946. Following his service in the Navy during World War II, he returned to Chicago working as an actor and announcer on radio before moving to New York City. In the late 1940s, he performed in Chicago-area summer stock theaters with actors such as Alan Furlan. In New York he studied singing with Ray Smolover.
Kiley's work on stage included Kismet, No Strings (which was Richard Rodgers's first stage musical after the death of Oscar Hammerstein II, in which Rodgers wrote both music and lyrics), the Buddy Hackett vehicle I Had a Ball, and the lead roles in Redhead, Man of La Mancha, and the play The Incomparable Max.
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Current items with a signature of Richard Kiley
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Traded items with a signature of Richard Kiley
The most expensive item with a signature of Richard Kiley (RICHARD KILEY - CONTRACT SIGNED 10/09/1953 CO-SIGNED BY: ARMINA MARSHALL) was sold in December 2025 for $266.99 while the cheapest item (RICHARD KILEY / VITTORIO GASSMAN -VINTAGE IN PERSON HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPHS.) found a new owner for $0.99 in December 2012. The month with the most items sold (12) was December 2025 with an average selling price of $165.99 for an autographed item of Richard Kiley. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in December 2025 with $165.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.99 was November 2012. In average, an autographed item from Richard Kiley is worth $18.62.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Richard Kiley were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED | $185.99 |  |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED | $104.99 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED | $104.99 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH | $165.99 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH | $165.99 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH | $185.99 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH | $185.99 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 03/07/1954 | $145.99 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 03/07/1954 | $145.99 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH | $145.99 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH | $145.99 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH | $165.99 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH | $165.99 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH CIRCA 1976 | $203.35 | |
| RICHARD KILEY - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH CIRCA 1976 | $203.35 | |
