Fay Tincher (April , â€" October , ) was an American comic actress in
motion pictures of the silent film era.Tincher began her career on
stage. In she was touring in California with The Merry Go Round
Company. In August of that year she may have married fellow actor, Ned
Buckley, on a dare. He was a Yale graduate and a resident of
Bridgeport, Connecticut. She visited her lawyer at the New York Life
Insurance Building at - Broadway (Manhattan). She asked him to obtain
a divorce if he learned that she was truly wed.While performing on the
Keith-Albee-Orpheum vaudeville circuit, Tincher was approached by a
man who commented about her resemblance to actress Mabel Normand. She
did not know Normand because she had never seen a movie in . The agent
gave her his card and said he wanted director D.W. Griffith to see
her. The following day she came calling at Biograph Studios. In her
first role Griffith cast her in the role of a vamp. Within three weeks
she began to play comedy, at first slapstick, and later comedy drama.
motion pictures of the silent film era.Tincher began her career on
stage. In she was touring in California with The Merry Go Round
Company. In August of that year she may have married fellow actor, Ned
Buckley, on a dare. He was a Yale graduate and a resident of
Bridgeport, Connecticut. She visited her lawyer at the New York Life
Insurance Building at - Broadway (Manhattan). She asked him to obtain
a divorce if he learned that she was truly wed.While performing on the
Keith-Albee-Orpheum vaudeville circuit, Tincher was approached by a
man who commented about her resemblance to actress Mabel Normand. She
did not know Normand because she had never seen a movie in . The agent
gave her his card and said he wanted director D.W. Griffith to see
her. The following day she came calling at Biograph Studios. In her
first role Griffith cast her in the role of a vamp. Within three weeks
she began to play comedy, at first slapstick, and later comedy drama.
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