Bryan Foy

Career Overview

Bryan Foy has 175 screen credits in a career dating back to 1915. Their work spans 6 cinematic universes — most prominently Torchy Blane Collection with 7 titles. Signature works include House of Wax, Carson City, He Walked by Night. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Production

Gender

male

Known Credits

175

Birth Date

1896-12-08

Birth Place

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known For

• 

  House of Wax
• 

  Carson City
• 

  He Walked by Night
• 

  T-Men
• 

  PT 109
• 

  The Bamboo Prison

Associated Universes

Universe traveler — spans 6 universes

• Torchy Blane Collection (7 titles)
• Nancy Drew Collection (4 titles)
• Brass Bancroft Series (3 titles)
• Penrod (Billy Mauch) Collection (1 titles)
• Perry Mason (1 titles)
• Clue Club Collection (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

• Roy Roberts (2 collaborations)
• Dan Dowling (2 collaborations)
• Frank Ferguson (2 collaborations)
• Mike Lally (2 collaborations)
• Lyle Latell (2 collaborations)
• Philo McCullough (2 collaborations)
• Jack Mower (2 collaborations)
• Jack Woody (2 collaborations)
• Rory Mallinson (2 collaborations)
• Vincent Price (1 collaborations)

Credits

• production (131 credits)

  • PT 109

    producer

    production
    1963
  • House of Women

    producer

    production
    1962
  • The True Story of Lynn Stuart

    producer

    production
    1958
  • Battle Stations

    producer

    production
    1956
  • Women's Prison

    producer

    production
    1955
  • The Bamboo Prison

    producer

    production
    1954
  • The Mad Magician

    producer

    production
    1954
  • Crime Wave

    producer

    production
    1953
  • House of Wax

    producer

    production
    1953
  • The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

    producer

    production
    1952
  • The Winning Team

    producer

    production
    1952
  • Carson City

    producer

    production
    1952
  • The Tanks Are Coming

    producer

    production
    1951
  • Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

    producer

    production
    1951
  • I Was a Communist for the FBI

    producer

    production
    1951
  • Highway 301

    producer

    production
    1950
  • The Great Jewel Robber

    producer

    production
    1950
  • Trapped

    producer

    production
    1949
  • He Walked by Night

    producer

    production
    1949
  • Hollow Triumph

    executive in charge of production

    production
    1948
  • Canon City

    producer

    production
    1948
  • Mickey

    production manager

    production
    1948
  • The Man from Texas

    producer

    production
    1948
  • Adventures of Casanova

    executive producer

    production
    1948
  • T-Men

    production manager

    production
    1947
  • Out of the Blue

    executive in charge of production

    production
    1947
  • Lost Honeymoon

    executive producer

    production
    1947
  • Doll Face

    producer

    production
    1945
  • The Bullfighters

    executive producer

    production
    1945
  • Take It or Leave It

    producer

    production
    1944
  • Guadalcanal Diary

    producer

    production
    1943
  • The Undying Monster

    producer

    production
    1942
  • The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe

    producer

    production
    1942
  • I Was Framed

    associate producer

    production
    1942
  • Steel Against the Sky

    producer

    production
    1941
  • Law of the Tropics

    producer

    production
    1941
  • Nine Lives Are Not Enough

    producer

    production
    1941
  • Underground

    producer

    production
    1941
  • The Nurse's Secret

    producer

    production
    1941
  • A Shot in the Dark

    producer

    production
    1941
  • Shadows on the Stairs

    producer

    production
    1941
  • Flight from Destiny

    executive producer

    production
    1941
  • South of Suez

    executive producer

    production
    1940
  • Always a Bride

    executive producer

    production
    1940
  • Money and the Woman

    executive producer

    production
    1940
  • River's End

    executive producer

    production
    1940
  • Ladies Must Live

    executive producer

    production
    1940
  • The Man Who Talked Too Much

    executive producer

    production
    1940
  • Gambling on the High Seas

    associate producer

    production
    1940
  • A Fugitive from Justice

    associate producer

    production
    1940
  • Murder in the Air

    associate producer

    production
    1940
  • Tear Gas Squad

    producer

    production
    1940
  • Private Detective

    producer

    production
    1939
  • The Return of Doctor X

    producer

    production
    1939
  • On Dress Parade

    associate producer

    production
    1939
  • Smashing the Money Ring

    associate producer

    production
    1939
  • No Place to Go

    producer

    production
    1939
  • Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    associate producer

    production
    1939
  • Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite

    producer

    production
    1939
  • Waterfront

    producer

    production
    1939
  • Nancy Drew... Trouble Shooter

    producer

    production
    1939
  • Code of the Secret Service

    associate producer

    production
    1939
  • Sweepstakes Winner

    associate producer

    production
    1939
  • Torchy Runs for Mayor

    associate producer

    production
    1939
  • On Trial

    associate producer

    production
    1939
  • The Adventures of Jane Arden

    producer

    production
    1939
  • Nancy Drew... Reporter

    associate producer

    production
    1939
  • Torchy Blane in Chinatown

    associate producer

    production
    1939
  • King of the Underworld

    associate producer

    production
    1939
  • Devil's Island

    associate producer

    production
    1939
  • Nancy Drew… Detective

    producer

    production
    1938
  • Torchy Gets Her Man

    associate producer

    production
    1938
  • Broadway Musketeers

    producer

    production
    1938
  • Mr. Chump

    producer

    production
    1938
  • When Were You Born

    associate producer

    production
    1938
  • Crime School

    associate producer

    production
    1938
  • Over the Wall

    associate producer

    production
    1938
  • He Couldn't Say No

    producer

    production
    1938
  • Blondes at Work

    producer

    production
    1938
  • Hollywood Hotel

    associate producer

    production
    1938
  • Missing Witnesses

    producer

    production
    1937
  • The Adventurous Blonde

    associate producer

    production
    1937
  • Alcatraz Island

    associate producer

    production
    1937
  • Love Is on the Air

    associate producer

    production
    1937
  • White Bondage

    producer

    production
    1937
  • Talent Scout

    producer

    production
    1937
  • Fly Away Baby

    producer

    production
    1937
  • Draegerman Courage

    producer

    production
    1937
  • The Cherokee Strip

    producer

    production
    1937
  • Melody for Two

    producer

    production
    1937
  • Midnight Court

    producer

    production
    1937
  • Penrod and Sam

    associate producer

    production
    1937
  • Once a Doctor

    associate producer

    production
    1937
  • Guns of the Pecos

    producer

    production
    1936
  • California Mail

    producer

    production
    1936
  • The Case of the Black Cat

    producer

    production
    1936
  • Isle of Fury

    producer

    production
    1936
  • Down the Stretch

    producer

    production
    1936
  • Love Begins at Twenty

    producer

    production
    1936
  • Jailbreak

    producer

    production
    1936
  • Bengal Tiger

    associate producer

    production
    1936
  • Hot Money

    producer

    production
    1936
  • Murder by an Aristocrat

    producer

    production
    1936
  • The Law in Her Hands

    producer

    production
    1936
  • Treachery Rides the Range

    producer

    production
    1936
  • Road Gang

    producer

    production
    1936
  • Man Hunt

    producer

    production
    1936
  • Freshman Love

    producer

    production
    1936
  • The Widow from Monte Carlo

    producer

    production
    1935
  • That's Gratitude

    producer

    production
    1934
  • Tomorrow's Children

    producer

    production
    1934
  • High School Girl

    producer

    production
    1934
  • Elysia, Valley of the Nude

    producer

    production
    1933
  • What Price Innocence?

    producer

    production
    1933
  • Night of Terror

    producer

    production
    1933
  • The Curse of a Broken Heart

    producer

    production
    1933
  • Deception

    producer

    production
    1932
  • Tiger Shark

    production supervisor

    production
    1932
  • The Hollywood Handicap

    producer

    production
    1932
  • The Circus Show-Up

    executive producer

    production
    1932
  • The Red Shadow

    executive producer

    production
    1932
  • Hollywood Halfbacks

    producer

    production
    1931
  • House of Mystery

    executive producer

    production
    1931
  • Sealed Lips

    executive producer

    production
    1931
  • Trapped

    executive producer

    production
    1931
  • A Burglar to the Rescue

    executive producer

    production
    1931
  • Harmonizing Songs

    producer

    production
    1930
  • The Music Racket

    producer

    production
    1930
  • Finders Keepers

    producer

    production
    1929
  • The California Mail

    producer

    production
    1929
  • Lights of New York

    producer

    production
    1928

• actors (3 credits)

  • Elysia, Valley of the Nude

    International News Bureau Editor

    actor

    actors
    1933
  • Don't Get Nervous

    himself

    actor

    actors
    1929
  • A Favorite Fool

    One of the Widow's Children (as Seven Little Foys)

    actor

    actors
    1915

• directing (38 credits)

  • Stout Hearts and Willing Hands

    director

    directing
    1931
  • The Gorilla

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Railroad Follies

    director

    directing
    1930
  • The Music Racket

    director

    directing
    1930
  • The Happy Hottentots

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Reno or Bust

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Surprise

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Poor Aubrey

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Trifles

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Finders Keepers

    director

    directing
    1929
  • For Sale

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Die Königsloge

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Songology

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Sympathy

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Don't Get Nervous

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Rarin' to Go

    director

    directing
    1929
  • The Music Makers

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Moving Day

    director

    directing
    1929
  • At the Party

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Baby Rose Marie: The Child Wonder

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Jack White with the Montrealers

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Gossip

    director

    directing
    1929
  • A Bird in the Hand

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Frank Whitman: That Surprising Fiddler

    director

    directing
    1929
  • The Home Towners

    director

    directing
    1928
  • Sharp Tools

    director

    directing
    1928
  • Hollywood Bound

    director

    directing
    1928
  • Thanksgiving Day

    director

    directing
    1928
  • Lights of New York

    director

    directing
    1928
  • The Swell Head

    director

    directing
    1928
  • Chips of the Old Block

    director

    directing
    1928
  • The Ingenues: The Band Beautiful

    director

    directing
    1928
  • The Morrissey & Miller Night Club Revue

    director

    directing
    1928
  • The Book Worm

    director

    directing
    1928
  • The Night Court

    director

    directing
    1927
  • Hazel Green & Company

    director

    directing
    1927
  • Pocahontas and John Smith

    director

    directing
    1924
  • Somebody Lied

    director

    directing
    1923

• writing (3 credits)

  • College

    writer

    writing
    1927
  • The Fortune Hunter

    writer

    writing
    1927
  • Bashful Jim

    writer

    writing
    1925