Biography
A statuesque character actress onscreen from the late 1910s, Fay Holderness usually played spinsters but also turned up as a dance hall girl in
Charles Chaplin's
A Dog's Life (1918) and as the vamp-ish waitress in
Erich Von Stroheim's
Blind Husbands (1919). Long associated with slapstick factories such as L-Ko and
Hal Roach, Holderness is today best remembered as Mrs. Hardy in the Laurel and Hardy comedy
Hog Wild (1930). She was last spotted onscreen playing a bit part in
The Mummy's Ghost (1944); she died from a cardiovascular disease at a sanatorium in Santa Monica, CA. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide