Charley Foy

Charley Foy (June 12, 1898 – August 22, 1984), born Charles Richard Fitzgerald, was an American actor of both the vaudeville stage and film.

Foy's paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1855, settling in New York City.

After a career that took him around the country, Foy's father settled back in his native New York, where he met and married Madeline Morando.

[5] In between, Foy appeared in another film in the Mack Sennett short, A Favorite Fool, this time along with the rest of his family.

[11] In 1936, Foy realized that Vaudeville was waning quickly and decided to attempt a return to film, so he left New York and relocated to Hollywood.

[18] He had a small role in the drama, Hell's Kitchen, which stars the Dead End Kids and Ronald Reagan.

[22] In 1940, Foy had a small part in the John Garfield crime drama, East of the River, which also stars Brenda Marshall and Marjorie Rambeau.

[23] Foy would again have a featured role in another Bogart film in 1941, the drama The Wagons Roll at Night, which was directed by Ray Enright, and also stars Sylvia Sidney and Eddie Albert.

[3] It was originally located on Ventura Boulevard at Coldwater Canyon in northern Los Angeles,[28] and was one of the first supper clubs in southern California.

[29][30][31] It was known for giving opportunities to aspiring young comedians, including Jackie Gleason,[3] Dan Rowan and Dick Martin (who appeared in 1953),[32] Peter Marshall,[28] and Phil Silvers.

He was a long-time friend of fellow vaudevillian and comedian, Joe Frisco, with whom he occasionally appeared with at the supper club.

[36] He was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on August 18, 1984, suffering from a toxic blood disease, sepsis.