Roy Fant (1885-1971) was a working actor of radio, stage, and screen. He was elected to The Lambs in 1945.
Roy Fant was born on 17 August 1885. He entered show business as a young man.
He met actress Alice Barbour in 1911 when the couple were appearing onstage in the musical comedy A Japanese Honeymoon. They married and appeared together on vaudeville and radio in Fant and Webster, The Pine Tavern, and Kinfolks. She died in 1945 of pneumonia.
Fant made his Broadway debut in 1926 in the comedy Daisy Mayme, written and directed by George Kelly at the Playhouse Theatre. His Broadway career consisted of small parts up to 1960. He appeared in the flop See the Jaguar (1952) which ran for five performances and is only remembered for the appearance in the cast of a young James Dean.
He made a Vitaphone short, Nine O’Clock Folks, in 1931. He also appeared on radio in Famous Jury Trials (1949), the Cavalcade of America (1950-51), and the DuPont Show of the Month (1957). His biggest credit was in the film Desire Under the Elms (1958) opposite Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins. He had a bit part in Pretty Boy Floyd (1960).
In 1951, Lamb John F. Hamilton sketched Fant at The Lambs. This drawing is in the Lambs Foundation Collection in the clubhouse.
Roy Fant died in November 1971 in New York. He was 86.