- Had 4 children: daughter, Carrie Fisher (October 21, 1956 - December 27, 2016) & son, Todd Fisher (b. February 24, 1958) with 1st ex-wife, Debbie Reynolds and daughters, Joely Fisher (b. October 29, 1967) & Tricia Leigh Fisher (b. December 26, 1968) with 3rd ex-wife, Connie Stevens.
- During an April 2007 Entertainment Tonight (1981) interview with Mary Hart, ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor revealed that she recently telephoned him and they spoke for the first time in over 40 years.
- Married Elizabeth Taylor 3½ hours after divorcing Debbie Reynolds. Taylor was the widow of his close friend Mike Todd.
- Ex-father-in-law of Paul Simon.
- The first person to ever make a fan club for him was a then thirteen-year old Rona Barrett, who later became his life-long friend.
- When he declared bankruptcy in 1970 in San Juan, Puerto Rico he listed $916,300 in debts and $40,000 in assets in municipal bonds held by the Bank of America as security on a loan.
- In 1951, he was drafted into the United States Army where he was singing with the Army Band and touring bases overseas.
- He is survived by six grandchildren.
- In Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), he appeared uncredited as a street urchin begging for food from Catherine Holly, the character played by his wife at the time, Elizabeth Taylor.
- According to Carrie Fisher (featured in Richard E Grant on Ealing comedies) he once slept with Princess Margaret, (the sister of Queen Elizabeth the second).
- The son of Russian Jewish immigrants, according to Eddie, the family's surname was originally either Tisch or Fisch. Between Ellis Island and Philadelphia, it had become Americanized as Fisher.
- At the height of his popularity, during the 1950s, Fisher was, along with Perry Como and Elvis Presley, RCA Victor's top-selling pop vocalist. His many hits during this period, all well remembered, include: "Anytime" (his first big hit), "Oh, My Pa-Pa", "Wish You Were Here", "I Need You Now", "Dungaree Doll", "I'm Walking Behind You", "Heart", "Games That Lovers Play" and "Somebody Like You".
- He was interred next to the ashes of his last wife, Betty Lin, at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, California,.
- Around 1956, Eddie Fisher and his agent Lew Wasserman were discussing roles for Fisher's acting debut. A project being discussed at the time was "What Makes Sammy Run?" by Budd Schulberg and Stuart Schulberg. Fisher wanted to play aggressive producer Sammy Glick, "the ultimate Jewish hustler. I knew a lot of real Sammy Glicks and I felt confident that was a character I could play." Lew Wasserman decided that the character was too much of a classic negative Jewish stereotype and that it would be bad for Fisher to play it. So Fisher went in the complete opposite direction (in retrospect, perhaps too far) with then-wife Debbie Reynolds in the squeaky clean comedy that Fisher hated, Bundle of Joy (1956), a film made to capitalize on the birth of their daughter, future Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) "Princess Leia" Carrie Fisher. The Schulberg project "What Makes Sammy Run?" was eventually produced in two parts for Sunday Showcase (1959): What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 1 (1959) and What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 2 (1959).
- Dated Stefanie Powers, Lana Wood and Ann-Margret in the '60s. In his autobiography he claimed to have had an affair with Michelle Phillips, which she categorically denied.
- He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard for Television at 1724 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
- Has two great grandchildren: great grandson Kingston Fisher Lourd Rydell (b. September 24, 2020) and a great granddaughter Jackson Joanne Lourd Rydell (b. December 12, 2022) via granddaughter Billie and her husband Austen Rydell.
- Born on the same date as country/western impresario Jimmy Dean.
- Received billing as 'Stage Manager' in the film All About Eve (1950), although his scenes were cut out of the film.
- His manager was Bill Trowbridge.
- Died a week before Tony Curtis.
- Ex-brother-in-law of John Megna.
- Father-in-law of Christopher Duddy.
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