Fay McKenzie Biography, Age, Husband, Children, Career And Death

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Fay Mckenzie Biography

Fay Mckenzie (Eunice Fay McKenzie) is an American actress.  She starred in silent films as a child.  Fay is perhaps best known for her leading roles in five Gene Autry films from the early 1940s.

Fay Mckenzie Age

Fay was born on February 19, 1918 in Hollywood, California. She is 101 years old as of 2019.

Fay Mckenzie Family

Fay was born, in Hollywood, California.  She is the daughter to  business parents, Eva (née Heazlitt) and Robert McKenzie. Fay’s father had a stock company called the McKenzie Merry Makers. He was an actor and director in stage productions and films. Fay’s father Robert, company included such actors as Broncho Billy Anderson, Ben Turpin, and Victor Potel.

In 1918 when Fay was ten weeks old, she appeared in the film Station Content (1918) as Gloria Swanson’s baby. Fay also  appeared in four other silent films as a child: A Knight of the West (1921) as Fray Murten, When Love Comes (1922) as Ruth,  The Judgment of the Storm (1924) as a Heath Twin, and The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924) as young Sarah Lincoln.

Fay has three siblings two sisters Ida Mae McKenzie and Ella McKenzie, and her brother-in-law Billy Gilbert who were also actors.  Her sister Ida Mae played the character of Sarah Lincoln in The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln, in the part of the film where she had become a teenager.

Fay Mckenzie Obituary | Fay Mckenzie Death

Fay is still alive.

Fay Mckenzie Husband | Ex Husband |Fay Mckenzie Children

Fay was married twice. She was first married to the American actor Steve Cochran in Acapulco, Mexico, on January 1946. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1948, although they had separated nine months into the marriage. Fay’s parents’ disapproval of him was cited as one of the reasons. She was then married to the screenwriter Tom Waldman. Their marriage lasted from 1948 to his death on July 23, 1985. The couple had two children: the actor Tom Waldman Jr. and the writer Madora McKenzie. Fay is a Christian Scientist.

Fay Mckenzie 2019

She turned 101 on February 19, 2019.

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