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- Eddie Foy (born March 9, 1856, New York City—died February 16, 1928, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) was an American comedian, actor, and vaudevillian who enjoyed success in variety shows and musicals before becoming a star on the vaudeville circuit. As a child, he sang and danced in the streets of New York and Chicago to help support his family.
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Edwin Fitzgerald (March 9, 1856 – February 16, 1928), known professionally as Eddie Foy and Eddie Foy Sr., was an American actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian.
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- February 16, 1928 (aged 71), Kansas City, Missouri, US
- Edwin Fitzgerald, March 9, 1856, Manhattan, New York City, US
Eddie Foy. Actor: A Favorite Fool. American stage actor, musical comedy star, and vaudevillian who was a legendary figure of his time and who fathered a family of performers who went on to notable careers in motion pictures.
- March 9, 1856
- February 16, 1928
Eddie Foy (born March 9, 1856, New York City—died February 16, 1928, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.) was an American comedian, actor, and vaudevillian who enjoyed success in variety shows and musicals before becoming a star on the vaudeville circuit. As a child, he sang and danced in the streets of New York and Chicago to help support his family.
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Mar 17, 2003 · Back to Iroquois Theatre Fire. These are the words of Eddie Foy, an actor who was preparing to go on stage on December 30, 1903, aI Chicago’s Iroquois Theater: The theater was one of the finest that had yet been built in this country-a palace of marble and plate glass, plush and mahogany and gilding.
Jan 1, 1999 · This first-ever biography of Foy tells the story of his indigent childhood in New York's Bowery and in Chicago, his tough uphill climb as a "variety artist" at Western outposts, his success in vaudeville and Broadway, and his arrival as a national icon with the Seven Little Foys.
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Eddie Foy, Sr., was an actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian. Foy’s parents, Richard and Mary Fitzgerald immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1855 and lived first in New York’s Bowery, then in Greenwich Village, where Eddie was born. Richard Fitzgerald died in an insane asylum in 1862 from syphilis-induced dementia, and his ...
Song-and-dance man Eddie Foy, Jr. (b. New Rochelle, New York, February 4, 1905; d. New Rochelle, New York, February 4, 1905; d. Woodland Hills, California, July 15, 1983 ), famous in mid-life as Hinesie in The Pajama Game (Broadway 1954 and film 1957), began his career at age five as one of vaudevillian Eddie Foy’s (1856–1928) seven ...
