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William George (Willie) Fay (12 November 1872 - 27 October 1947) was an actor and theatre producer who was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre.
Fay was born in Dublin and attended Belvedere College., Dublin. He worked for a time in the 1890s with a touring theatre company in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. When he returned to Dublin, he worked with his brother Frank, staging productions in halls around the city. Finally, they formed W. G. Fay's Irish National Dramatic Company, focused on the development of Irish acting talent.
The brothers participated in the in founding of the Abbey Theatre and were largely responsible for evolving the Abbey style of acting .
After a falling-out with the Abbey directors in 1908, the brothers emigrated to the United States to work in theatre there. Willie moved to London in 1914 worked as an actor in on the stage and in films. One of his most notable film roles was as Father Tom in Carol Reed's Belfast-set Odd Man Out (1947), whose cast was dense with actors from the Abbey Theatre. His The Fays of the Abbey Theatre appeared in 1935. He died in London.
Bill Fay is an English singer, pianist and songwriter.
His first single, "Some Good Advice" / "Screams in my Ears", was issued on the Deram label in 1967, and was followed by two albums, Bill Fay in 1970 and Time of the Last Persecution in 1971. The recordings did not sell well, and Fay was dropped from Deram soon after the release of his second album.[citation needed] Fay's original Deram albums are available on CD after being reissued in 2005.
Despite returning to the recording studio in the late 1970s, the follow-up to Time of the Last Persecution did not emerge until January 2005. Entitled Tomorrow, Tomorrow & Tomorrow, it was credited to the Bill Fay Group and was released on the Durtro Jnana label. In 2004, the British label Wooden Hill released a collection of demos recorded between 1966 and 1970 entitled From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock.
The American band Wilco has played Fay's song "Be Not So Fearful" in live performances and the band's singer, Jeff Tweedy, can be heard singing it in the documentary, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco. Fay has joined the band and Tweedy onstage for the rendition of the song at shows at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in 2007, and at the Union Chapel, Islington in 2010 respectively, both in London.
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