Michael Fox(1921-1996)
- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Casting Director
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
(Hidden Secret (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).
