{{Short description|American actor and comedian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Hugh Fay | image = Hugh Fay portrait.jpg | image_size = | caption = {{circa}} 1917 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1882|07|09|mf=yes}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1925|12|04|1882|07|09|mf=yes}} | death_place = Los Angeles, U.S. | other_names = | education = | occupation = Actor, director | years_active= 1915–1925 | spouse = | children = | awards = }} '''Hugh Fay''' (June 9, 1882 – December 4, 1925) was an American comedic actor and director.<ref name=com>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvmcAwAAQBAJ&q=%22hugh+fay%22&pg=PA502|title=Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel|first=Brent E.|last=Walker|date=January 13, 2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786457076|via=Google Books}}</ref> He appeared in vaudeville and silent films.
He was the son of Irish vaudevillian Henry "Hugh" Fay and comedic actress Elfie Fay was his sister.<ref name=com/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXcuAAAAYAAJ&q=hugh+fay&pg=PA26|title=The Actors' Birthday Book: First -third Series. An Authoritative Insight Into the Lives of the Men and Women of the Stage Born Between January First and December Thirty-first|first=Johnson|last=Briscoe|date=November 30, 1909|publisher=Moffat, Yard|via=Google Books}}</ref>
==Filmography== ===Actor=== *''Crooked to the End'' (1915)<ref name=com/> *''A Hash House Fraud'' (1915) *''Mabel Lost and Won'' (1915) as the vamp's friend *''An Oily Scoundrel'' (1916)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/actors-hugh-fay-and-charles-arling-tie-louella-maxam-to-a-news-photo/515412294|title=Actors Hugh Fay and Charles Arling tie Louella Maxam to a railroad...|website=Getty Images}}</ref> *''Her Donkey Love'' (1917) *''A Matrimonial Accident'' (1917) *''Stars and Bars'' (1917) *''Son of a Gun'' (1918)<ref name=son/> *''Are Married Policemen Safe?'' (1918)<ref name=son>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VDZ1DwAAQBAJ&q=%22hugh+fay%22&pg=PT451|title=Lame Brains and Lunatics|first=Steve|last=Massa|date=April 4, 2013|publisher=BearManor Media|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''A Neighbor's Keyhole'' (1918)<ref name=son/> *''The Failed Marriage'' (1918)<ref name=son/> *''A Lady Bellhop's Secret'' (1919)<ref name=son/> *''Better Times'' (1919) as Jack Ransom *''Almost Married)'' (1919) as Manny Morrison *''A Favor to a Friend'' (1919) as Danny Abbott * ''Please Get Married'' (1919) as Soapy Higgins *''Hired and Fired'' (1920)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.fi/detail/news-photo/hired-and-fired-lobbycard-from-left-hugh-fay-harry-mccoy-news-photo/1137296484|title=Hugh Fay, Harry McCoy, 1920.|website=Getty Images}}</ref> *''A Kick in the High Life'' (1920)<ref name=son/> *''Little Annie Rooney'' (1925) as Spider *''Spuds'' (1927) as Spy
===Director=== *''Won By a Foot'' (1917) *''The Rainmaker'' (1922) *''Glad Rags'' (1922) *''It's a Gift'' (1923) *''Tour Service'' (1926)<ref name=son/>
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==External links== {{commons category}} * {{IMDb name|0269572}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fay, High}} Category:1882 births Category:1925 deaths Category:Film directors from New York City Category:American vaudeville performers Category:American male silent film actors Category:20th-century American male actors Category:Male actors from New York City Category:Burials at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery