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Along with several others (including poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats) he was co-founder (Along with he founded Dublin's famous Abbey Theatre in 1904.

Attended Belvedere College.

Set up a theatrical touring company with his brother Frank in the 1890's. Worked in London as an actor from 1914.

Was one of three siblings, who included older brother Frank (1870-1931), who he co-founded Dublin's Abbey Theatre with.

He worked for a time in the 1890s with a touring theatre company in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

He moved to London in 1914, working as an actor on stage and in films.

His memoir, The Fays of the Abbey Theatre, appeared in 1935.

William Fay and his brothers participated in founding the Abbey Theatre and were largely responsible for evolving the Abbey style of acting.[3] After a falling-out with the Abbey directors in 1908, the brothers emigrated to the United States to work in theatre there.

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.