Eddie Foy Jr.

Eddie Foy Jr.

1905-02-04 New Rochelle, New York, USA 59 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eddie Foy Jr. (February 4, 1905 - July 15, 1983) was an American character actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eddie Foy Jr., licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Deadly Game

Deadly Game

1977

as Carter

6.5
Acting

A military convoy is transporting something apparently for disposal. They pass by Sheriff Abel Marsh's town and they are passing by property that's ow...

The Girl in the Empty Grave

The Girl in the Empty Grave

1977

as Carter

7.1
Acting

The police chief of a small town begins an investigation after a young woman, who was supposed to have died several months previously, starts appearin...

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

1976

as Custard Pie Star

4.1
Acting

A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.

30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!

30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!

1968

as Oscar

4.2
Acting

A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he turns 30. Directo...

Gidget Goes to Rome

Gidget Goes to Rome

1963

as Beachgoer Wanting to Use Phone (uncredited)

4.8
Acting

Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of hi...

Gidget Goes to Rome

Gidget Goes to Rome

1963

as Man at Beach Trying to Use Telephone

4.8
Acting

Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of hi...

Gidget Goes Hawaiian

Gidget Goes Hawaiian

1961

as Monty Stewart

4.6
Acting

Francis is desperate: her parents want to force her to come with them on vacation to Hawaii - just during the two weeks when her beloved "Moondoggy" i...

Bells Are Ringing

Bells Are Ringing

1960

as J. Otto Prantz

6.3
Acting

Ella Peterson works in the basement office of Susanswerphone, a telephone answering service. She listens in on others' lives and adds some interest to...

The Pajama Game

The Pajama Game

1957

as Vernon 'Hinesie' Hines

6.2
Acting

An Iowa pajama factory worker falls in love with an affable superintendent who had been hired by the factory's boss to help oppose the workers' demand...

Mr. Broadway

Mr. Broadway

1957

Acting

A musical television special chronicling the early career of playwright George M. Cohan, focusing primarily on his vaudeville years as part of his fam...

Lucky Me

Lucky Me

1954

as Duke McGee

6.7
Acting

Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promi...

The Farmer Takes a Wife

The Farmer Takes a Wife

1953

as Fortune Friendly

3.3
Acting

Erie Canal, N.Y., 1850: Molly Larkins, cook on Jotham Klore's canal boat, has a love-hate relationship with her boss. She hires handsome new haul-hors...

Honeychile

Honeychile

1951

as Eddie Price

6.0
Acting

A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.

Wilson

Wilson

1944

as Eddie Foy

5.5
Acting

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, an...

And the Angels Sing

And the Angels Sing

1944

as Fuzzy Johnson

7.0
Acting

The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy, Bobby, Josie, and Patti, aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Po...

Dixie

Dixie

1943

as Mr. Felham

3.0
Acting

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music ...

Dixie Dugan

Dixie Dugan

1943

as Matt Hogan

5.0
Acting

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast abo...

Joan of Ozark

1942

as Eddie McCabe

Acting

An uninhibited Arkansas farmgirl discovers a group of Nazis operating in the United States. Director Joseph Santley's broad WWII comedy stars Judy Can...

Moonlight Masquerade

Moonlight Masquerade

1942

as Lord Percy Ticklederry

5.0
Acting

Two business partners, John Bennett, Sr. and Robert Forrester, are starting to get nervous when the birthday of Victoria, Forrester's daughter, approa...

Powder Town

Powder Town

1942

as Mr. Billy Meeker

3.7
Acting

Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien...

Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942

as Eddie Foy

7.1
Acting

A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Yokel Boy

Yokel Boy

1942

as Joe Ruddy

4.7
Acting

A film company hires a gangster to mock himself holding up a bank, but he succeeds too well and makes off with the money. But all ends well.

Four Jacks and a Jill

Four Jacks and a Jill

1942

as Happy McScud, a Jack

6.0
Acting

Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little Arega...

Puddin' Head

Puddin' Head

1941

as Harold L. Montgomery Jr.

5.0
Acting

On the day that United Broadcasting System's new building is dedicated, bumbling vice-president Harold L. Montgomery, Sr. discovers that he gave the w...

Country Fair

Country Fair

1941

as Johnny Campbell

Acting

Johnny Campbell isa glib campaign manager for gubenatorial candidate Stogie McPhee. Having impulsively promised Johnny that she'll marry him if McPhee...

Rookies on Parade

Rookies on Parade

1941

as Cliff Dugan

Acting

The story details the misadventures of two itinerant songwriters named Duke (Crosby) and Cliff (Foy) as they try to survive Army boot camp. Intending ...

The Case of the Black Parrot

The Case of the Black Parrot

1941

as Tripod Daniels

5.4
Acting

Sandy Vantine and her uncle, Paul Vantine, return from Europe with an antique cabinet purchased during their trip. Jim Moore, a reporter who had met S...

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

The Texas Rangers Ride Again

1940

as Mandolin

5.5
Acting

With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the g...

Scatterbrain

Scatterbrain

1940

as Eddie MacIntyre

Acting

A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

A Fugitive from Justice

A Fugitive from Justice

1940

as Ziggy

3.5
Acting

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a ...

Murder in the Air

Murder in the Air

1940

as Gabby Watters

4.6
Acting

Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,...

Lillian Russell

Lillian Russell

1940

as Eddie Foy Sr.

6.1
Acting

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Alex in Wonderland

Alex in Wonderland

1940

as Alex Scarpio

Acting

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fr...

Smashing the Money Ring

Smashing the Money Ring

1939

as Gabby

5.0
Acting

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

The Cowboy Quarterback

The Cowboy Quarterback

1939

as Steve Adams

5.5
Acting

Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his gir...

Frontier Marshal

Frontier Marshal

1939

as Eddie Foy

6.1
Acting

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Code of the Secret Service

Code of the Secret Service

1939

as Gabby

3.5
Acting

Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.

Women in the Wind

Women in the Wind

1939

as Denny Corson

6.8
Acting

A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

Secret Service of the Air

Secret Service of the Air

1939

as Gabby Watters

5.8
Acting

Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal a...

The Prisoner of Swing

The Prisoner of Swing

1938

as Dantsau

Acting

Musical satire based on Anthony Hope's Ruritanian novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" in which a commoner takes the place of a lookalike king.

Hotel a la Swing

Hotel a la Swing

1937

as Reed - Revue Producer / Hotel Manager

6.0
Acting

In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Grand Majestic Hotel.

George Hall & His Orchestra

George Hall & His Orchestra

1937

as Eddie, the Manager

3.5
Acting

George Hall and his orchestra couldn't find a hotel in the city where they are scheduled to appear, so they break into the basement of the theater in ...

College Holiday

College Holiday

1936

as Dancer

5.2
Acting

College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

King of Burlesque

King of Burlesque

1936

as Dancer (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who hel...

I'll Be Suing You

1934

as Edward J. Foy

Acting

Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.

Benny, from Panama

1934

as Eddie Foy

6.0
Acting

Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the gu...

Maid in Hollywood

Maid in Hollywood

1934

as Assistant Director

Acting

Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Pat...

A Duke for a Day

1934

as Edward

Acting

Movie star Gloria Blossom (Jeanette Loff) is unhappy with her press agent's (Eddie Foy, Jr.) attempts at publicity. After reading newspaper stories ab...

Roamin' Vandals

Roamin' Vandals

1934

as Eddie

Acting

A 1934 short comedy subject starring Patsy Kelly and Lillian Miles.

Myrt and Marge

Myrt and Marge

1933

as Eddie Hanley

4.2
Acting

Myrt has a show chock full of talented performers that deserves to be on Broadway, but can't raise the necessary money. Jackson, a lecherous "producer...

Broadway Thru a Keyhole

Broadway Thru a Keyhole

1933

as Joan's partner

5.7
Acting

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a star...

Nearly Naked

Nearly Naked

1933

as Eddie

Acting

Eddie is forced to join a nudist cult to win over the girl he loves, Vera Marshe. When Vera is near, he becomes somewhat distracted, and being new to ...

Nearly Naked

Nearly Naked

1933

Writer

Writing

Eddie is forced to join a nudist cult to win over the girl he loves, Vera Marshe. When Vera is near, he becomes somewhat distracted, and being new to ...

Leathernecking

Leathernecking

1930

as Chick Evanss

Acting

Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.

Queen of the Night Clubs

Queen of the Night Clubs

1929

as Eddie Parr

Acting

Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.

The Swell Head

The Swell Head

1928

Acting

The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short

Chips of the Old Block

1928

1.0
Acting

The Foy Family performs a vaudeville act.

A Favorite Fool

1915

as One of the Widow's Children (as Seven Little Foys)

Acting

Arling, ringmaster of a small wagon circus, abuses Polly and her seven children. Foy, a farmhand, sympathizes with her and she decides to quit her pla...

Actors' Fund Field Day

1910

as Self

Acting

It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Regular village "cut-ups" are those actor chaps and actresses.