Born in Chicago, IL. A son of famous vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, brother of Eddie Foy, Jr., and himself popular on the vaudeville circuit as one of the Seven Little Foys, he left the stage in 1918 to become a director of comedy shorts at Fox. He later freelanced as a screenwriter and gag writer for Buster Keaton and others. In the mid-1920s he joined Warner Bros., where his experience with sound on VitaPhone shorts led to his assignment to direct the feature LIGHTS OF NEW YORK (1928), a sort of landmark film, promoted by the studio as "the first 100 percent all-talking picture." Except for the novelty, it was a rather awkward motion picture, and after directing a number of low-budget films, Foy moved over to the producer's end of the business. For a while he headed the B unit at Warners. In the 1940s he was associated with Fox and in the 50s was back with Warners, where he produced another technical landmark film, the 3-D HOUSE OF WAX (1953). In all, Foy produced 185 shorts and features, including -- during the last 20 years of his career -- GUADALCANAL DIARY (1943), THE MIRACLE OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA and THE WINNING TEAM (both 1952) and PT 109 (1963). During his vaudeville days Foy wrote the hit song "Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean." Because of his long association with B pictures he was known jokingly in the industry as "Keeper of the B's."  Nominated for Documentary (Features) 1951: I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE FBI - Producer 1 nomination