Eddie Foy Jr.

Eddie Foy Jr. was an American actor who worked for six decades in vaudeville, Broadway, film and television. Born in New Rochelle, he began in the family act Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys with his father and siblings. His Broadway debut came in Florenz Ziegfeld's 1929 Show Girl, with Ruby Keeler and Jimmy Durante. Stage credits included The Red Mill, At Home Abroad, The Cat and the Fiddle, Donnybrook! and The Pajama Game, and for Rumple (1957) he received a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. In the 1930s and 1940s he appeared in many B movies and played his father in features such as Frontier Marshal (1939), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) and Wilson (1944). Other films included The Pajama Game (1957) and Bells Are Ringing (1960). On television he starred in Fair Exchange and made guest appearances on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, My Living Doll, Burke's Law and My Three Sons.