Michael Fox

Michael Fox (27. februar 1921 – 1. juni 1996) var en amerikansk skuespiller, som medvirkede i tallige film og tv-serier. Nogle af hans mest kendte tilbagevendende roller var som forskellige retsmedicinere i 25 afsnit af Perry Mason, som Coroner George McLeod i 26 afsnit af Burke's Law, som Amos Fedders i 16 afsnit af Falcon Crest og som Saul Feinberg i 12 afsnit af Glamour. Han er også kendt for at være grunden til, at Michael J. Fox registerede sit navn med bogstavet "J", som mellemnavn, da han blev tilføjet til Screen Actors Guild (for ikke også at hedde "Michael Fox").

Karriere 

Michael Fox startede sin skuespilskarriere i det sydlige California omkring 1945. Gennem hans optrædner på scenen, mødte Fox Harry Sauber, som introducerde ham for Sam Katzman.

To af hans faste tv-roller var, som retsmediciner i retsdramaerne Perry Mason, og som Saul Feinberg i CBS' sæbeopera Glamour fra 1989-1996.

Blandt hans tidligere arbejde på tv, var det næstsidste afsnit af Adventures of Superman, som leder af en kriminel bande, som prøvede at efterligne massemorderen Perils of Paulines stil af mordforsøg mod seriens forskellige hovedroller. Han medvirkede også i flere afsnit af tv-serien Science Fiction Theatre fra 1955-1957.

Privatliv og død 

Fox var gift med Hannah, en skuespillerinde han mødte under opførslen af teaterstykket The Dybbuk, i et teaterområde i Los Angeles, der blev ledet af Lou Smuckler, svigerfar til Lee J. Cobb. Han lånte en bil af Dorothy Gish, og kørte derefter Hannah til et rådhus og blev gift med hende i pausen mellem eftermiddagsforestillingen og aftensforestillingen af The Story of Mary Surratt.

Fox døde af lungebetændelse den 1. juni, 1996, i Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.

Roller

Tilbagevendende roller i tv-serier

Perry Mason (25 afsnit) 

Som Dr. Hoxie, fuldmægtig retsmediciner (1957-1963)

The Case of the Runaway Corpse
The Case of the Prodigal Parent
The Case of the Bedeviled Doctor
The Case of the Lame Canary

The Case of the Artful Dodger
The Case of the Loquacious Liar
The Case of the Duplicate Daughter
The Case of the Deadly Verdict

Som obduktionskirurg eller fuldmægtig læge (1959-1963)

The Case of the Caretaker's Cat
The Case of the Spurious Sister
The Case of the Prudent Prosecutor
The Case of the Singing Skirt
The Case of the Nimble Nephew
The Case of the Singular Double
The Case of the Fickle Fortune

The Case of the Wintry Wife
The Case of the Promoter's Pillbox
The Case of the Bogus Books
The Case of the Stand-In Sister
The Case of the Golden Oranges
The Case of the Witless Witness

Andre roller
The Case of the Libelous Locket  (1963) Læge
The Case of the Festive Felon (1963) Kirurg
The Case of the Impetuous Imp (1963) Dr. Lund
The Case of the Bogus Buccaneers (1966) Abe Heyman

Burke's Law 

Burke's Law (26 afsnit)

Som politibetjent (1965)
Who Killed Rosie Sunset?
Who Killed the Fat Cat?
Who Killed Mr. Colby in Ladies' Lingerie?

Som retsmediciner George McLeod 1963-1965

Who Killed Holly Howard?
Who Killed Julian Buck?
Who Killed Alex Debbs?
Who Killed Wade Walker?
Who Killed Purity Mather?
Who Killed Beau Sparrow?
Who Killed What's His Name?
Who Killed April?
Who Killed Carrie Cornell?
Who Killed Marty Kelso?
Who Killed Andy Zygmunt?
Who Killed Molly?

Who Killed the Eleventh Best Dressed Woman in the World?
Who Killed 1/2 of Glory Lee?
Who Killed the Surf Broad?
Who Killed Everybody?
Who Killed Merlin the Great?
Who Killed the Strangler?
Who Killed the Man on the White Horse?
Who Killed Cop Robin?
Who Killed the Jackpot?
Who Killed the Grand Piano?
Who Killed the Card?

Falcon Crest (16 afsnit) 

Som schweistisk advokat (1988)
The Key to Angela

Som Amos Fedders (1988-1989)

Life with Father
Solomon's Choice
Suspicion
There Goes the Bride
True Confessions

And Baby Makes Three
Dinner at Eight
Uneasy Allies
The Vigil
Missing Links

Resurrection
Grand Delusions
Ties That Bind
The Last Laugh 
Decline and Fall

Glamour (12 afsnit) 

Som Saul Feinberg (1990-1993)

Episode #1.616 
Episode #1.755
Episode #1.817
Episode #1.816

Episode #1.896
Episode #1.898
Episode #1.1017
Episode #1.1297

Episode #1.1466
Episode #1.1573
Episode #1.1658
Episode #1.1678

Andre roller 

I Led Three Lives
Som Comrad John
Communications (1954)
Revolt  (1955)

Casablanca
Som Sasha
Who Holds Tomorrow? (1955)
Hand of Fate (1955)

Trackdown
Som skuespiller
The Threat (1959)

Som Blake Yedor 
The Gang (1959)
Gift Horse (1959)

The Clear Horizon (1960-1961) som  Sig Levy

General Electric Theater
Som konsul
My Dark Days: Pt 1 and Pt 2 (1962)

Arrest and Trial
Som Doc Hastings
Some Weeks Are All Mondays (1963)
The Revenge of the Worm (1964)

He & She
Som Matthew Cornell
The Background Man (1967)
The Old Man & the She (1967)

Columbo
Som Dr. Benson
Étude in Black (1972)
The Most Dangerous Match (1973)

Ikke-tilbagevendende roller i tv-serier 

 Science Fiction Theatre
Beyond (1955) Radarmand  
The Brain of John Emerson (1955)  Dr. Franklin  
The Frozen Sound (1955) Dr. Gordine  
The Flicker (1956) Dr. James Kincaid  
The Missing Waveband (1956) Dr. Maxwell  
Jupitron (1956) Dr. Norstad  
Signals from the Moon (1956)  Dr. Edwards
 The Ford Television Theatre
The Payoff (1956) Kommissær Bernard Shuman  
Catch at Straws (1956) Jed Hartan  
Front Page Father (1956)  Malcolm Slade  
Miller's Millions (1957)  Dommer Patterson  
 Wanted: Dead or Alive
Reunion for a Revenge (1959) Kvækkeren
The Hostage (1959) Bartender Tom 
 Alcoa Theatre
30 Pieces of Silver (1959) Mr. Hammeker
The Observer (1960) Fader Holze
 The Rifleman
Letter of the Law (1959) Abel
The Trade (1959) Trager
Miss Millie (1960) Jim Oxford
The Hangman (1960) Joe Hannah
 Richard Diamond, Private Detective
Marineland Mystery (1959) Paul Schofield
Coat of Arms (1960) 
The Popskull (1960) 
 The Twilight Zone
Nightmare as a Child (1960) Læge
Mr. Dingle, the Strong (1961) Marsmand
Sounds and Silences (1964) Psykolog
 The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor
The Queen of Craven Point (1961) Laboratoriemand
The Reason (1961) Andy
 The Untouchables
The Stryker Brothers (1962) Kommissær Miller
Death for Sale (1961) Bradley

 The Dick Powell Show
Somebody's Waiting (1961)
The Big Day (1962) Phil
The Hook (1962)
The Legend (1962) Advokat
The Old Man and the City (1963)
 The Virginian
The Brazen Bell (1962) Fangevagt
No Drums, No Trumpets (1966) General Howard
The Price of Love (1969) Retsmediciner
 Gunsmoke
Carter Caper (1963) Tjener
Wishbone (1966) Jæger fra Buffalo
The Raid: Part 1 (1966) Mr. Simms – Hotel Clerk
Hard Luck Henry (1967)  Jed Walsh
 The Big Valley
Forty Rifles (1965)  De Koven
The Iron Box (1966) MacGowan
 Point and Counterpoint (1969) Jonathan Williams
 Honey West
A Matter of Wife and Death (1965) Kommissær Kovacs
Come to Me, My Litigation Baby (1966) Mr. Strate
 Batman
Holy Rat Race (1966) Leo Gore
Smack in the Middle (1966) Politiassistent Basch
Hi Diddle Riddle (1966) Politiassistent Basch
 Lost in Space
Cave of the Wizards (1967) Alien på computerskærm
The Ghost Planet (1966) Kybernetisk leder/Supreme Brain
 Ironside
A Very Cool Hot Car (1967) Tekniker
Beyond a Shadow (1969) Dr. Leonard Marcus
Death by the Numbers (1972) Dr. Albert Gold
 Hogan's Heroes
The Well (1969) Kaptajn Ritter
It's Dynamite (1970) Berger
Get Fit or Go Fight (1970) Major Kimmel
 Quincy, M.E.
Jury Duty (1981) Dr. Feld
Cover-Up (1980) Kaptajn

Enkeltstående optrædner i tv-serier 

 The Mickey Rooney Show – Pilot (1954) Julies far
 Hopalong Cassidy  – Grubstake (1954) Brock Fain
 The Lone Wolf – The Runaway Story  (1954)  Lt. Joe Neeley
 Celebrity Playhouse – The Hoax (1955)
 Warner Brothers Presents – Hand of Fate (1955) Sasha
 The Man Behind the Badge – The Case of the Red Letter Day (1955) Fremmed
 My Little Margie  – Corpus Delecti (1955) Roland Roberts
 Cavalcade of America – Monument to a Young Man (1956) George Wooley
 Tombstone Territory – Desert Survival (1957) Warren
 Highway Patrol – Efficiency Secretary (1957) Dusty Dunn
 The Thin Man – Come Back Darling Asta (1957) Politikommissær Heldon
 Meet McGraw – The Fighter (1957) Sorrento
 Undercurrent – Front Page Father (1957) Malcolm Slade
 Alfred Hitchcock Presents – Crackpot (1957) Håndværker
 Dr. Christian – The Alien (1957) Rausch
 The Walter Winchell File – Muggy Night on Times Square: File #39 (1958) Harris
 The Adventures of Jim Bowie – The Puma (1958) Kaptajn
 Adventures of Superman – The Perils of Superman (1958) Den ledende af maskerede kriminelle
 Harbor Command  – Four to Die (1958)
 Man with a Camera – The Bride (1959) Fader Ehrlich
 The David Niven Show – The Last Room (1959)
 The Grand Jury – Accident by Appointment (1959)
 Shotgun Slade – Charcoal Bullet (1960) Læge Miller
 Johnny Ringo – Soft Cargo (1960) Clint Logan
 The DuPont Show with June Allyson – Slip of the Tongue (1960) Harvey
 Dennis the Menace  – Dennis and the Rare Coin (1960)  Hathaway
 87th Precinct – Lady Killer (1961) Dr. Ben Danlela
 Miami Undercover – The Big Frame (1961) Chandler
 Dante – Dial D for Dante (1961) Joe Conway
 Empire – Long Past, Long Remembered (1962) Chester Arkins
 Target: The Corruptors! – License to Steal (1962)
 Follow the Sun  – A Choice of Weapons (1962) Ernie Glazer
 Breaking Point – And James Was a Very Small Snail (1963)
 Wagon Train – The Molly Kincaid Story (1963) Bartenderen Al
 I'm Dickens, He's Fenster – Is There a Doctor in the House? (1963) Dr. Levy
 The Rogues – Hugger-Mugger, by the Sea (1964)  Hogan
 My Favorite Martian – Who Am I? (1964) Dr. Gilbert
 The Twilight Zone -Examination Day/A Message from Charity  (1985) Tom Carter
 Kraft Suspense Theatre – Kill No More (1965) Howard Link
 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea – Deadly Invasion (1966) General Haines

 Felony Squad – Prologue to Murder (1966) Dr. Kilmer
 Mission: Impossible – Operation Heart (1967) Dr. Levya
 Laredo – The Seventh Day (1967) Bartender
 The Ghost & Mrs. Muir  – The Ghost Hunter (1968) Prof. Maxwell
 The Wild Wild West – The Night of the Death-Maker (1968) Gillespie
 The Flying Nun  – A Fish Story (1968) Ogden
 The Bold Ones: The Senator – The Day the Lion Died (1970) Kellerman
 The Governor & J.J. – Charley's Back in Town (1970) Abel Mellon
 The Partners – New Faces (1971) Dr. Mitchell
 The Mod Squad – And a Little Child Shall Bleed Them (1971) Læge
 The Doris Day Show – A Fine Romance (1971) Capt. Mallory
 The Bold Ones: The New Doctors – An Inalienable Right to Die (1972) Carl Hedge
 The Rookies – The Good Die Young (1972) Dr. Parkman
 Temperatures Rising – Good Luck, Leftkowitz (1972) General
 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury – Operation: Dorias (1972) Dr. Julian
 Chase – The Garbage Man (1973) Franco
 Emergency! – Inheritance Tax (1973) Politibetjent
 Shaft – The Killing (1973) Dommer Graves
 Kolchak: The Night Stalker – The Energy Eater (1974)  Frank Wesley
 Lucas Tanner  – Cheers (1974) Dr. Wells
 The Rockford Files – Just by Accident (1975) Oplæseren
 Gemini Man  – Night Train to Dallas (1976) Konduktør
 Charlie's Angels – Angels in the Wings (1977) Austin Wells
 Fantasy Island – Seance/Treasure (1979) Mr. McCloud
 Concrete Cowboys  – Episode #1.1 (1981) Dekanen
 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century – Time of the Hawk (1981) Højtstående dommer
 Voyagers!  – The Travels of Marco... and Friends (1982) Isaac Wolfstein
 Hunter – Pen Pals (1984) Judge
 Dallas – Fools Rush In (1984)
 Simon & Simon  – The Skull of Nostradamus (1985) Konventionsembedsmand
 St. Elsewhere  – Tears of a Clown (1985)
 Knight Rider – Custom Made Killer (1985) Phil
 Comedy Factory – Man About Town (1986) Mand på museum
 MacGyver – Every Time She Smiles (1986) Bulgarsk politibetjent
 Cagney & Lacey – Right to Remain Silent (1987) Nat Weinreich
 TV 101 – The Last Temptation of Checker: Part 1 (1989) Jack Gregory
 The Hogan Family – The Franklin Family (1990) Jerry Grundig
 Bodies of Evidence  – Eleven Grains of Sand (1993) Earl Stern
 ER  – Blizzard (1994) Mr. Bozinsky
 NYPD Blue  – Torah! Torah! Torah! (1995) Rabbiner Rosenthal

Spillefilm 

 The Pathfinder (1952) Hovedperson
 Voodoo Tiger (1952) Karl Werner, aka Heinrich Schultz
 Last Train from Bombay (1952) Capt. Tamil
 Blackhawk (1952) Mr. Case/Lederen
 Without Warning! (1952)  Taxachauffør
 Killer Ape (1953) Den medicinske politibetjent
 Slaves of Babylon (1953) Hovedperson
 Sky Commando (1953) Major Scott
 Run for the Hills (1953) Phineas Cragg
 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) Skadestueslæge (også dialoginstruktør)
 The Lost Planet (1953) Dr. Ernst Grood
 Siren of Bagdad (1953) Telar
 Serpent of the Nile (1953) Octavius
 The Glass Wall (1953) Politiassistent Toomey
 The Magnetic Monster (1953) Dr. Serny (også dialoginstruktør)
 The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd (1953) Elias Smith
 The Silver Chalice (1954) Slave
 Riding with Buffalo Bill (1954) Kong Carney
 Naked Alibi (1954) Rund mand
 Rogue Cop (1954) Rudy
 Down Three Dark Streets (1954) Politiinspektør
 Gog (1954) Dr. Hubertus (også dialoginstruktør)
 The Iron Glove (1954) Begyndende hovedperson
 Charge of the Lancers (1954)  Begyndende hovedperson
 Riders to the Stars (1954) Terapeuten dr. Klinger
 Running Wild (1955) Delmar Graves
 My Sister Eileen (1955) Shakespeareansk skuespiller
 The Big Knife (1955) Prize Fight-speaker
 The Scarlet Coat (1955) Major Russell
 The Adventures of Captain Africa (1955) Statsminister
 Conquest of Space (1955) Elsbach
 Crashout (1955) (dialoginstruktør)
 Cha-Cha-Cha Boom! (1956) Frank
 Kiss Them for Me (1957) Krigskorrespondent
 Plunder Road (1957) Smogpolitibetjent/hovedperson (også assisterende producer)

 The Tijuana Story (1957) Reuben Galindo
 The Girl in the Kremlin (1957) Igor Smetka
 Top Secret Affair (1957) Reporter Lotzie
 Machine-Gun Kelly (1958) Kriminalassistent Clinton
 A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958) Kriminalassistent
 War of the Satellites (1958) Jason ibn Akad
 Let's Make Love (1960) Skuespiller, der er til audition til Clement-rollen
 Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Motorcykelbetjent på strand
 The Interns (1962) Dr. Greenberg
 The New Interns (1964) Dr. Arthur Hellman, terapeut
 The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) Kohner, løgnedetektorsoperatør
 A Tiger Walks (1964) Tv-interviewer
 Billie (1965) Ray Case, rapporter
 Angel's Flight (1965) Bartenderen Jake
 Now You See It, Now You Don't (1968) Politiassistent Delon
 The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) Oplæser
 Seven in Darkness (1969) Piloten
 Bloody Mama (1970) Dr. Roth
 The Dunwich Horror (1970) Dr. Raskin
 If Tomorrow Comes (1971) Dommer
 The Judge and Jake Wyler(1972) Læge Simon
 Two for the Money (1972) Hospital Administrator
 The Missiles of October (1974) Sovjetisk betjent
 Young Frankenstein (1974) Helgas far
 The Longest Yard (1974) Oplæser
 Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (1976) Adm. Sherman
 Dempsey (1983) Dommer Dooling
 The Malibu Bikini Shop (1986) Onkel Dave
 Quicksilver (1986) Børsmægler til frokost
 Over the Top (1987) Jim Olson
 She Was Marked for Murder (1988)
 Skinheads (1989) Saul

Kilder

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