Edward MacKay
American actor and film director
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Edward J. Mackay, also noted as Edward MacKay, was an actor on stage and in films in the United States. He also directed films.[1] In 1915 he was a leading man for Jesse L. Lasky's Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company.[2] He was married to Julia MacKay in 1900, they separated around 1904, and she filed for divorce in 1906. He was a leading man with the Crescent Stock Company.[3]
Alice Coon Brown MacKay, who had been a drama critic from the Ohio State Journal in Columbus, Ohio was his second wife.[4][5] She was the daughter of U.S. senator from Utah Arthur Brown.[4]
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He was a member of the Actors' Equity Association.[6] In 1930 he was treasurer of the Actors' Fidelity League.[7]