Fay Holden and David Clyde History

David Clyde Born: March 27, 1885 in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland.
Died: May 17, 1945 (age 60) in San Fernando Valley, California, USA

Fay Holden Born: Dorothy Fay Hammerton September 26, 1893 in Birmingham, England
Died: June 23, 1973 (age 79) in Los Angeles, California, USA

They were married in 1914. After a successful career on the stage in Scotland and England in the early 1920s with the Garrick Theatre players, Fay (then known as Gaby Fay) and David acted in Boston and in New York, on Broadway, between 1925 and 1928.

In 1929, in partnership with playwright and actor Norman Cannon, with whom they had acted in Boston, they moved to Vancouver, bought and refurbished the Empress Theatre and launched the British Guild Players. The British Guild Players featured many high profile actors such as Dorothy Somerset, who initiated the UBC Theatre program, Sidney Risk, who created the Everyman Theatre in the 1940s, and such stars of the period as Basil Radford.