Eddie Foy, Jr.

Actor, Film actor

1905 – 1983

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Who was Eddie Foy, Jr.?

Eddie Foy Jr. was an American character actor.

Born Edwin Fitzgerald Jr. in New Rochelle, New York, the son of vaudevillian Eddie Foy and his third wife, Madeline Morando, he was one of the "Seven Little Foys" immortalized in the 1955 film of the same name. He had the longest performing career and was the only one to appear regularly in movies. Throughout the 1930s and '40s he appeared in dozens of B movies. He closely resembled his father, and portrayed him in four feature films: Frontier Marshal, Lillian Russell, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Wilson, and again in a 1964 telefilm about the family's early days in vaudeville. Additional film credits include The Farmer Takes a Wife, The Pajama Game, Bells Are Ringing, and Gidget Goes Hawaiian.

Foy made his Broadway debut in Florenz Ziegfeld's 1929 extravaganza Show Girl alongside Ruby Keeler and Jimmy Durante. He also appeared in At Home Abroad, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Red Mill, The Pajama Game, Donnybrook!, and Rumple, for which he received a Tony Award nomination as Best Actor in a Musical.

Foy found steady work with the advent of television. In addition to a leading role in the first hour-long sitcom, Fair Exchange, he made numerous guest appearances on such programs as The Gisele MacKenzie Show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Glynis, My Living Doll, Burke's Law, ABC Stage 67, My Three Sons, and Nanny and the Professor.

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Born
Feb 4, 1905
New Rochelle
Also known as
  • Edwin Fitzgerald Foy Jr.
  • Seven Little Foys
  • Eddie Foy
  • Eddie Foy Jr.
  • the Seven Little Foys
  • Edwin Fitzgerald, Jr.
  • Edwin Fitzgerald Jr.
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Siblings
Spouses
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Nationality
  • United States of America
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Died
Jul 15, 1983
Woodland Hills
Resting place
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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