Birth Name: Myron 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).Cause of death: complications from pneumonia. Spouse: Hannah(1947-1 June 1996, his death, 2 children).-(courtesy of IMDb)
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See: https://filesofjerryblake.com/serial-villains/michael-fox/ for the balance of an excellent article on this actor. THE FILES OF JERRY BLAKE
Former stage actor Michael Fox was one of the serial genre's very last notable villains; before beginning a long career as a television character player, he portrayed the chief heavy in three of Sam Katzman's 1950s cliffhanger efforts. Fox possessed all the qualifications of a top serial brains heavy; his smoothly authoritative voice, arrogantly confident manner, slyly intelligent face, and subtly theatrical screen personality were ideally suited to master-villain roles–although his biggest and best-remembered chapterplay characterization was more notable for humor than for menace.
Michael Fox was born in Yonkers, New York; he did some school-play acting during his youth, but studied history while in college, in hopes of becoming a teacher. This plan never came to fruition, however; instead, Fox wound up spending several years as a peripatetic railway brakeman, working for multiple railroads across the country. By 1945, he had landed in California, where he started a new career as an actor after auditioning for a Los Angeles theater group. His background in history subsequently helped him land a role in the play "The Story of Mary Surratt," a Dorothy Gish vehicle centered around the Lincoln assassination; this production successfully toured the West Coast, but folded not long after arriving on Broadway in 1947. After "Surratt" closed, Fox did some radio work in New York and then returned to California, where he took a haberdashery job and began auditioning for theater groups again; he soon became both an actor and director for a Los Angeles group known as the Players' Ring. In 1952, while performing at the Ring in "Home of the Brave," he was "discovered" by Harry Sauber, an associate of producer Sam Katzman; Sauber introduced Fox to Katzman, and the actor soon began appearing in the feature films and serials that Katzman produced for release by Columbia.
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Per: U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Myron Melvin Fox; [Michael Fox]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 27 Feb 1921
Birth Place: Yonkers West, New York
Death Date: 1 Jun 1996
Father: Jacob Fox
Mother: Josephine Berkowitz
SSN: 073161668
Notes: Jul 1939: Name listed as MYRON MELVIN FOX; Jun 1965: Name listed as MICHAEL 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).Cause of death: complications from pneumonia. Spouse: Hannah(1947-1 June 1996, his death, 2 children).-(courtesy of IMDb)
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See: https://filesofjerryblake.com/serial-villains/michael-fox/ for the balance of an excellent article on this actor. THE FILES OF JERRY BLAKE
Former stage actor Michael Fox was one of the serial genre's very last notable villains; before beginning a long career as a television character player, he portrayed the chief heavy in three of Sam Katzman's 1950s cliffhanger efforts. Fox possessed all the qualifications of a top serial brains heavy; his smoothly authoritative voice, arrogantly confident manner, slyly intelligent face, and subtly theatrical screen personality were ideally suited to master-villain roles–although his biggest and best-remembered chapterplay characterization was more notable for humor than for menace.
Michael Fox was born in Yonkers, New York; he did some school-play acting during his youth, but studied history while in college, in hopes of becoming a teacher. This plan never came to fruition, however; instead, Fox wound up spending several years as a peripatetic railway brakeman, working for multiple railroads across the country. By 1945, he had landed in California, where he started a new career as an actor after auditioning for a Los Angeles theater group. His background in history subsequently helped him land a role in the play "The Story of Mary Surratt," a Dorothy Gish vehicle centered around the Lincoln assassination; this production successfully toured the West Coast, but folded not long after arriving on Broadway in 1947. After "Surratt" closed, Fox did some radio work in New York and then returned to California, where he took a haberdashery job and began auditioning for theater groups again; he soon became both an actor and director for a Los Angeles group known as the Players' Ring. In 1952, while performing at the Ring in "Home of the Brave," he was "discovered" by Harry Sauber, an associate of producer Sam Katzman; Sauber introduced Fox to Katzman, and the actor soon began appearing in the feature films and serials that Katzman produced for release by Columbia.
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Per: U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Myron Melvin Fox; [Michael Fox]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 27 Feb 1921
Birth Place: Yonkers West, New York
Death Date: 1 Jun 1996
Father: Jacob Fox
Mother: Josephine Berkowitz
SSN: 073161668
Notes: Jul 1939: Name listed as MYRON MELVIN FOX; Jun 1965: Name listed as MICHAEL FOX
Birth Name: Myron 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).Cause of death: complications from pneumonia. Spouse: Hannah(1947-1 June 1996, his death, 2 children).-(courtesy of IMDb)
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See: https://filesofjerryblake.com/serial-villains/michael-fox/ for the balance of an excellent article on this actor. THE FILES OF JERRY BLAKE
Former stage actor Michael Fox was one of the serial genre's very last notable villains; before beginning a long career as a television character player, he portrayed the chief heavy in three of Sam Katzman's 1950s cliffhanger efforts. Fox possessed all the qualifications of a top serial brains heavy; his smoothly authoritative voice, arrogantly confident manner, slyly intelligent face, and subtly theatrical screen personality were ideally suited to master-villain roles–although his biggest and best-remembered chapterplay characterization was more notable for humor than for menace.
Michael Fox was born in Yonkers, New York; he did some school-play acting during his youth, but studied history while in college, in hopes of becoming a teacher. This plan never came to fruition, however; instead, Fox wound up spending several years as a peripatetic railway brakeman, working for multiple railroads across the country. By 1945, he had landed in California, where he started a new career as an actor after auditioning for a Los Angeles theater group. His background in history subsequently helped him land a role in the play "The Story of Mary Surratt," a Dorothy Gish vehicle centered around the Lincoln assassination; this production successfully toured the West Coast, but folded not long after arriving on Broadway in 1947. After "Surratt" closed, Fox did some radio work in New York and then returned to California, where he took a haberdashery job and began auditioning for theater groups again; he soon became both an actor and director for a Los Angeles group known as the Players' Ring. In 1952, while performing at the Ring in "Home of the Brave," he was "discovered" by Harry Sauber, an associate of producer Sam Katzman; Sauber introduced Fox to Katzman, and the actor soon began appearing in the feature films and serials that Katzman produced for release by Columbia.
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Per: U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Myron Melvin Fox; [Michael Fox]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 27 Feb 1921
Birth Place: Yonkers West, New York
Death Date: 1 Jun 1996
Father: Jacob Fox
Mother: Josephine Berkowitz
SSN: 073161668
Notes: Jul 1939: Name listed as MYRON MELVIN FOX; Jun 1965: Name listed as MICHAEL 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).Cause of death: complications from pneumonia. Spouse: Hannah(1947-1 June 1996, his death, 2 children).-(courtesy of IMDb)
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See: https://filesofjerryblake.com/serial-villains/michael-fox/ for the balance of an excellent article on this actor. THE FILES OF JERRY BLAKE
Former stage actor Michael Fox was one of the serial genre's very last notable villains; before beginning a long career as a television character player, he portrayed the chief heavy in three of Sam Katzman's 1950s cliffhanger efforts. Fox possessed all the qualifications of a top serial brains heavy; his smoothly authoritative voice, arrogantly confident manner, slyly intelligent face, and subtly theatrical screen personality were ideally suited to master-villain roles–although his biggest and best-remembered chapterplay characterization was more notable for humor than for menace.
Michael Fox was born in Yonkers, New York; he did some school-play acting during his youth, but studied history while in college, in hopes of becoming a teacher. This plan never came to fruition, however; instead, Fox wound up spending several years as a peripatetic railway brakeman, working for multiple railroads across the country. By 1945, he had landed in California, where he started a new career as an actor after auditioning for a Los Angeles theater group. His background in history subsequently helped him land a role in the play "The Story of Mary Surratt," a Dorothy Gish vehicle centered around the Lincoln assassination; this production successfully toured the West Coast, but folded not long after arriving on Broadway in 1947. After "Surratt" closed, Fox did some radio work in New York and then returned to California, where he took a haberdashery job and began auditioning for theater groups again; he soon became both an actor and director for a Los Angeles group known as the Players' Ring. In 1952, while performing at the Ring in "Home of the Brave," he was "discovered" by Harry Sauber, an associate of producer Sam Katzman; Sauber introduced Fox to Katzman, and the actor soon began appearing in the feature films and serials that Katzman produced for release by Columbia.
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Per: U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Myron Melvin Fox; [Michael Fox]
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birth Date: 27 Feb 1921
Birth Place: Yonkers West, New York
Death Date: 1 Jun 1996
Father: Jacob Fox
Mother: Josephine Berkowitz
SSN: 073161668
Notes: Jul 1939: Name listed as MYRON MELVIN FOX; Jun 1965: Name listed as MICHAEL FOX
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