Earle Foxe

Earle Foxe (born Earl Aldrich Fox; December 25, 1891 – December 10, 1973) was an American actor.

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Earle Foxe
Foxe in 1914
Born	(1891-12-25)December 25, 1891 Oxford, Ohio, U.S.
Died	December 10, 1973(1973-12-10) (aged 81) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Other names	Earl Foxe
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1912–1946
Spouse	Gladys Elizabeth Borum Tenison (m. 1925)

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Foxe was born in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron.^[1] He was educated at Ohio State University, where he participated in theatrical productions.^[2]

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Foxe left for New York City as a young man and became a stage actor, working for two years as the Garrick Stock Company's leading man.^[3] He performed on stage with Douglas Fairbanks before going into films. On Broadway, he performed in Dancing Around (1915), Come Seven (1920), and Princess Virtue (1921).^[4]

He appeared in some films in New York City 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.^{[citation needed]}

Foxe became the first president of the Black-Foxe Military Institute, a military school for boys in Hollywood, in 1928 and served in that office until 1960.^[5] He continued to regularly appear in movies until 1937, with two minor appearances thereafter.

Foxe married vaudeville star Maybelle Meeker, aka "Dainty Marie", on August 7, 1914, in Leavenworth, Kansas.^[6] The marriage effectively lasted about four months, but was not legally dissolved for a year.^[7][8]