Hervé Villechaize Autographs
Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize (French: ; April 23, 1943 – September 4, 1993) was a French actor. He is best known for his roles as the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun and as Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, on the American television series Fantasy Island that he played from 1977 to 1983. On Fantasy Island, his shout of "De plane! De plane!" became one of the show's signature phrases. He died by suicide in 1993.
Villechaize was born in Nazi-occupied Paris on April 23, 1943, to Evelyn Recchionni, an Anglo-Italian socialite who was an ambulance driver during World War II and André Villechaize, a surgeon in Toulon. Villechaize also had German ancestry. The youngest of four sons, Villechaize was born with dwarfism, likely due to an endocrine disorder, which his surgeon father tried unsuccessfully to cure in several institutions. In later years, he insisted on being called a "midget" rather than a "dwarf", which annoyed his acting contemporary with a similar condition, Billy Barty, who was an activist who found that term derogatory. Villechaize was bullied at school for his condition and found solace in painting. In 1959, at age 16, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts to study art. In 1961, he became the youngest artist ever to have his work displayed in the Museum of Paris.
In 1964, Villechaize left France for the United States. He settled in a Bohemian section of New York City, and taught himself English by watching television.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Hervé Villechaize (Herve Villechaize Fantasy Island Tattoo Autographed Signed 8x10 Photo JSA COA) was sold in September 2025 for $599.99 while the cheapest item (Hervé Villechaize (d) Tattoo from Fantasy Island tv show Autograph on napkin) found a new owner for $2.20 in June 2023. The month with the most items sold (2) was March 2021 with an average selling price of $133.74 for an autographed item of Hervé Villechaize. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in March 2025 with $599.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $2.20 was June 2023. In average, an autographed item from Hervé Villechaize is worth $80.00.
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