Frank Findley Mackay (July 20, 1832 – May 6, 1923) was an American actor and author. He was vice president and the chairman of the executive committee of the Actors Fund of America. He was the founder of the National Congress of Dramatic Art.

Biography

Mackay was born on July 20, 1832, in Upper Canada (now Ontario, Canada) to Francie Mackay and Elizabeth Findley of Scotland. His parents had migrated from Scotland to New York City but fled the city for Canada during the cholera epidemic of 1832. He started in theater in 1848 at the

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in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1863, he married Elizabeth J. Sneathan and they had three children, Charles Donald, Edward, and

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. In 1913, he wrote ''The Art of Acting''. In 1916 he was commemorated as the oldest living Broadway actor. He died on May 6, 1923, in Fort Lee, New Jersey, at the home of his son, Charles.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mackay, F. F. 1832 births 1923 deaths Entertainment Community Fund Emigrants from pre-Confederation Ontario to the United States American stage actors