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Eddie Foy Jr.

{{Short description|American actor (1905–1983)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Eddie Foy Jr.

| image = Eddie Foy Jr. in Yankee Doodle Dandy trailer.jpg

| caption = Foy Jr. in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

| birth_name = Edwin Fitzgerald Jr.

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|2|4}}

| birth_place = New Rochelle, New York U.S.

| occupation = Actor

| years_active = 1915–1977

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|7|15|1905|2|4}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California U.S.

| resting_place =

| spouse = {{plainlist|

  • {{Marriage|Barbara Newberry|1930|1932|reason=div}}
  • {{Marriage|Anna Marie McKenney|1933|1952|reason=d}}

}}

| children = Eddie Foy III

| parents = Eddie Foy

}}

Edwin Fitzgerald Jr. (February 4, 1905 – July 15, 1983), known professionally as Eddie Foy Jr., was an American stage, film and television actor. His career spanned six decades, beginning as part of the vaudeville act Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys.

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Career

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 (1957), for which he received a Tony Award nomination as Best Actor in a Musical.{{Citation needed |date=July 2024}}

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Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Foy appeared in many B movies. He closely resembled his fatherHal Erickson, [http://www.allmovie.com/artist/eddie-foy-jr-24615 Eddie Foy, Jr. Biography], AllMovie.com and portrayed him in four feature films: Frontier Marshal (1939), Lillian Russell (1940), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and Wilson (1944). He also portrayed his father in a 1964 telefilm about the family's early days in vaudeville. Among Foy's other film credits are those for The Farmer Takes a Wife, The Pajama Game, Bells Are Ringing and Gidget Goes Hawaiian.

Foy found steady work with the advent of television. In addition to starring in the first hour-long sitcom, Fair Exchange, he made numerous guest appearances on programs such 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.

Personal life

Foy was married to Anna Marie McKenney from 1933 until her death in 1952. {{cite news |last1=McManus |first1=Margaret |title=Eddie Foy Jr. in Live TV Show |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53071356/eddie-foy-jr/ |access-date=June 9, 2020 |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=November 19, 1961 |location=Missouri, St. Louis |page=199|via = Newspapers.com}} They had a son, Eddie Foy III,{{cite news |last1=Mara |first1=Margaret |title=Mrs. Eddie Foy Jr. Is Superb in Difficult Role |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53070202/mrs-eddie-foy-jr/ |access-date=June 9, 2020 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=April 12, 1946 |location=New York, Brooklyn |page=16|via = Newspapers.com}}

Death

Foy died of pancreatic cancer in Los Angeles on July 15, 1983, at age 78.{{cite news |title=Eddie Foy Jr., actor, dancer and comedian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53070822/eddie-foy-jr/ |access-date=June 9, 2020 |work=The Boston Globe |agency=Reuter |date=July 16, 1983 |location=Massachusetts, Boston |page=27|via = Newspapers.com}}

Filmography

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  • {{IMDb name|0289376}}
  • {{Find a Grave|6201500}}

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Category:American male stage actors

Category:American male film actors

Category:American male television actors

Category:American male child actors

Category:American male musical theatre actors

Category:American vaudeville performers

Category:1905 births

Category:1983 deaths

Category:Male actors from New Rochelle, New York

Category:20th-century American male actors

Category:Deaths from pancreatic cancer in California

Category:20th-century American male singers