Eddie Foy

1856–1928 (age 72)

Vaudeville performer

Biography

Eddie Foy, born in 1856, rose to fame as a beloved vaudeville performer whose humor and charm delighted audiences across the nation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

He passed in 1928 and is memorialized at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, where fans still recall his energetic stage presence and the warmth he brought to the theater world.