Fred MacKaye

Biography

Frederick McKay Godwin had a brief film career in the late-1920s and then returned to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California to manage the La Playa Hotel which he and his brother Harrison inherited from their mother's aunt in 1924. Fred later bought out Harrison, who in 1940 bought the Pine Inn at Carmel-by-the-Sea. The Godwin brothers were successful businessmen and popular entertainers in Carmel for most of their lives.