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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
Known For
Complete Filmography

Deadly Game
1977
as Carter
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
1977
as Carter
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
1976
as Custard Pie Star
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!
1968
as Oscar
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
1963
as Beachgoer Wanting to Use Phone (uncredited)
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
1963
as Man at Beach Trying to Use Telephone
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
1961
as Monty Stewart
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
1960
as J. Otto Prantz
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
1957
as Vernon 'Hinesie' Hines
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
1957
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
1954
as Duke McGee
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
1953
as Fortune Friendly
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
1951
as Eddie Price
A music publishing company tries to swindle a song from a country girl that they inadvertently recorded without her permission.

Wilson
1944
as Eddie Foy
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
1944
as Fuzzy Johnson
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
1943
as Mr. Felham
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
1943
as Matt Hogan
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
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
1942
as Lord Percy Ticklederry
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
1942
as Mr. Billy Meeker
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
1942
as Eddie Foy
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.

Yokel Boy
1942
as Joe Ruddy
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
1942
as Happy McScud, a Jack
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
1941
as Harold L. Montgomery Jr.
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
1941
as Johnny Campbell
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
1941
as Cliff Dugan
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
1941
as Tripod Daniels
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
1940
as Mandolin
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
1940
as Eddie MacIntyre
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.

A Fugitive from Justice
1940
as Ziggy
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
1940
as Gabby Watters
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
1940
as Eddie Foy Sr.
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Alex in Wonderland
1940
as Alex Scarpio
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
1939
as Gabby
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

The Cowboy Quarterback
1939
as Steve Adams
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
1939
as Eddie Foy
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
1939
as Gabby
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.

Women in the Wind
1939
as Denny Corson
A famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.

Secret Service of the Air
1939
as Gabby Watters
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
1938
as Dantsau
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
1937
as Reed - Revue Producer / Hotel Manager
In this musical-comedy short, an out-of-work theatre troupe assumes management of the debt-ridden Grand Majestic Hotel.

George Hall & His Orchestra
1937
as Eddie, the Manager
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
1936
as Dancer
College students rally to save a struggling hotel from closing. Comedy.

King of Burlesque
1936
as Dancer (uncredited)
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
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
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
1934
as Assistant Director
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
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
1934
as Eddie
A 1934 short comedy subject starring Patsy Kelly and Lillian Miles.

Myrt and Marge
1933
as Eddie Hanley
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
1933
as Joan's partner
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
1933
as Eddie
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
1933
Writer
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
1930
as Chick Evanss
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
1929
as Eddie Parr
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
1928
The Swell Head is a 1928 silent comedy short
Chips of the Old Block
1928
The Foy Family performs a vaudeville act.
A Favorite Fool
1915
as One of the Widow's Children (as Seven Little Foys)
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
It's more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Regular village "cut-ups" are those actor chaps and actresses.