Donald Foley Explained

Donald Foley
Birth Name:Donald Charles Foley
Birth Date:1963
Birth Place:Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation:actor
Years Active:2003–2011

Donald Foley (1963 — 2011) was an American actor.

Life and career

Shortly after the September 11 attacks, Foley made a decision. “It kind of woke me up a little bit,” he said. Life was too short and too uncertain to waste it doing something he didn’t really want to do, he said. A self-employed computer programmer, Foley was admittedly wasting hours and hours every day playing computer games.

After 9/11, he decided that what he really wanted to do was actso he started acting. “I was feeling like life was not giving me what I needed,” he said. “I felt like something was missing, so I decided to make a change and try my hand at acting. I never looked back.”[1]

Foley was from Boston and is best known for his role of Bluey Batchelder in the movie The Golden Boys.[2] [3]

Partial filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2007 Brotherhood Joey Richards Episode: "Dear Landlord 1:3–4"
2009 The Invention of Lying The Yelling ManFeature film
2009 The Golden Boys Bluey Batchelder Feature film

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.today/20120908071355/http://www.newburyportnews.com/punews/local_story_086220225.html From an article in the Newburyport Daily News
  2. http://donaldcfoley.com/wordpress/209/a-conversation-with-don-foley-by-robyn-charles/ Interview on watchingshowtime.com about his role on Brotherhood
  3. http://web.me.com/dra101/Site_3/Photos.html#16 An image from the distributor website