Foy Van Dolsen

Who was Foy Van Dolsen?

Foy Van Dolsen was an American movie character actor. He appeared in many movies, such as Never Say Die, Tom Sawyer, Detective, Reaching for the Sun, and North West Mounted Police. He is best known for playing "Panama Pete, the Phantom" in the 1941 Universal horror film Horror Island. The Phantom was one of Universal's more impressive monster-villains, tall, with a mustache, wearing a hat and cape, with a most menacing voice. Foy Van Dolsen and his wife Libby retired from show business and ran a Quaker boarding school in North Carolina in the 1960s.