EARLE FOXE
Information from IMDb
Date of Birth
25 December 1887,
Oxford, Ohio, USA
Date of Death
10 December 1973,
Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name
Earl A. Fox
Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)
Spouse
Gladys Elizabeth Borum Tenison (1923 - 10 December 1973) (his death)
Trivia
Father of Chester Earle (c. 1925)
Mini Biography
Earle Foxe was born to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan.
His half sister was Ethel May Fox, born to Charles Aldrich Fox and Katie Eldridge.
Ethel was a music teacher and quite active in musical productions in Detroit, Michigan.
Earle was always very private about his own early history; he claimed that Ohio was his early home.
He went to New York as a young man and became a successful stage star.
He moved to California later and was under contract at Fox Studios (no relation).
He married Gladys Borum in 1923 and later legally adopted Chester E. Foxe.
He lived at "The Lambs" in the early 1920's, in New York - 130 West 44th Street.
He moved to CA in 1922.
He founded Black Foxe School, a military school for boys, in about 1943.
He was cremated. He is mentioned in Lewis Jacobs'
"The Rise of the American Film", p. 412: "Screen villains were streamlined into "gigolos".
They were attractive, nonchalant, sophisticated, witty, 'humanly wicked'
. Lew Cody, Adolphe Menjou, Earle Fox, Roy D'Arcy, Rod LaRocque, Stuart Holmes,
Nils Asther, Lowell Sherman, William Powell, and most strikingly Erich von Stroheim,
were the fascinating menaces, the hated, envied men of the world."
IMDb Mini Biography By: Dave Benham
Mini-Biography -2
Foxe was born Earl Aldrich Fox in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox,
originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron.
His older half sister was Ethel May Fox, a music teacher,
born in Michigan to Charles Aldrich Fox and Katie Eldridge.
Always very private about his own early history.
He was educated at Ohio State University. He left for New York as a young man,
joined a stock company and became a successful stage star,
being on the stage with Douglas Fairbanks before going into films.
He appeared in some films in New York and lived at the Lambs Club
in the early 1920s at 130 West 44th Street in New York City
but moved to California in 1922 and signed a contract with Fox Film Corporation.
He married Gladys Borum in 1923 and later legally adopted her son Chester E. Foxe.
He was one of the founders of Black-Foxe Military Institute,
a military school for boys in Hollywood, in 1928. He died in Los Angeles, California.
Information from Wikipedia
Earl Foxe appeared in over 150 movies
in a career that began in the silent days
He was another member of the
John Ford Stock Company making
6 movies with him, including The Informer, Mary of Scotland,
and My Darling Clementine
He made 2 movies which
possibly included Duke
Hangman's House (1928)...John D'Arcy
Four Sons (1928)... Major von Stomm
