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- Birth nameMyron Melvin Fox
- Michael Fox first "trod the boards" in grade school plays in his hometown of Yonkers, New York. After toying with the idea of becoming a history teacher, Fox did "something as foreign to my nature as one could think of", becoming a "boomer" (a migratory railroad worker) and taking jobs as a brakeman with various lines. His interest in acting was rekindled in the mid-'40s and he appeared in several "little theater" plays in Los Angeles. An acting-directing stint in a Players Ring production of "Home of the Brave" caught the eye of Harry Sauber, an associate of exploitation mogul "Jungle Sam" Sam Katzman, and Fox landed his first film role (A Yank in Indo-China (1952)). He appeared in dozens of movies (and innumerable TV episodes) in the decades since; one of his regular TV roles was as the coroner in the courtroom drama Perry Mason (1957).- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver <TomWeavr@aol.com> (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)
- SpouseHannah Jacobson(January 26, 1947 - June 1, 1996) (his death, 2 children)
- Because this Michael Fox was already registered in the Screen Actors Guild, and the Guild allows only one person of any name to be registered, Michael J. Fox inserted the 'J' into his name. He used the 'J' as a tribute to actor Michael J. Pollard.
- He made guest appearances on both The Twilight Zone (1959) and The Twilight Zone (1985).
- Interviewed in "It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 1996).
- He was the son of Josephine (Berkowitz) and Jacob Fox. His father and maternal grandparents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants.
- [About director Spencer Gordon Bennet, for whom he worked] Absolutely no sense of humor, but . . . a wonderful chap and a very good action director.
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