Eddie Foy Jr. (February 4, 1905 - July 15, 1983) was an American character actor. February 4 is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A character actor is an actor who predominantly performs supporting parts, often in similar roles throughout the course of a career. ...

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 was the only one of the septet to remain in show business beyond childhood. Throughout the 1930s and '40s he appeared in dozens of B movies. He portrayed his own father in four feature films - Frontier Marshal (1939), Lillian Russell (1940), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), 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. New Rochelle City Hall New Roc City New Rochelle is a city in Westchester County in the U.S. state of New York, 16 miles (26 km) from Grand Central Terminal in New York City and 2 miles north of the border with The Bronx. ... Vaudeville is a style of theater, also known as variety, which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ... Eddie Foy in a 1901 photo Edwin Fitzgerald Foy (March 9, 1856 – February 16, 1928) was an American vaudeville actor and comedian. ... The term B-movie originally referred to a film designed to be distributed as the lower half of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters or vampires. ... Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 biographical film about George M. Cohan, starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney. ... Wilson is a 1944 biographical film about President Woodrow Wilson. ... Telefilm redirects here. ... The Farmer Takes a Wife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Pajama Game is a musical based on the novel 7-1/2 Cents by Richard Bissell. ... Bells Are Ringing is a 1960 romantic comedy-musical film, directed by Vincente Minnelli. ... Gidget Goes Hawaiian is a 1961 beach movie, the second of three Gidget films directed by Paul Wendkos. ...

Foy made his Broadway debut in Florenz Ziegfeld's 1930 extravanaganza Show Girl. He also appeared in The Red Mill, The Pajama Game, Donnybrook!, and Rumple, for which he received a Tony Award nomination as Best Actor in a Musical. Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... 1928 Time cover featuring Ziegfeld Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. ... Bold textthis painting reminds me of so many memories, i love it and will forever treasure it ... Donnybrook! is a musical from 1961, with music and lyrics by Johnny Burke and book by Robert E. McEnroe. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater, primarily honoring productions on Broadway in New York. ...

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 Alfred Hitchcock Presents, My Living Doll, Burke's Law, ABC Stage 67, My Three Sons, and Nanny and the Professor. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Fair Exchange was a television comedy that ran from 1962 to 1963 on CBS. It starred Eddie Foy Jr. ... Screenshot of opening sequence of Alfred Hitchcock Presents Alfred Hitchcock Presents was a half-hour anthology television series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. ... My Living Doll was an American comedy television series that aired for 26 episodes from September 27, 1964 to September 8, 1965. ... Burkes Law was a detective series which ran on ABC from 1963 to 1966, and then again on CBS from 1994 to 1995. ... ABC Stage 67 was the umbrella title for a series of entertainments that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and travelogues. ... My Three Sons was a television series sitcom that ran from September 29, 1960 to August 24, 1972. ... Nanny And The Professor was a 1970s U.S. fantasy sitcom that was produced by 20th Century Fox Television. ...

Foy died of pancreatic cancer in Woodland Hills, California. Pancreatic cancer (also called cancer of the pancreas) is a malignant tumour within the pancreatic gland. ... Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ...

External links

• Internet Broadway Database listing
• Internet Movie Database listing