Redd Foxx (I) (1922–1991)

Actor | Soundtrack | Writer

Redd Foxx began doing stand-up comedy on the infamous "Chitlin' Circuit" in the 1940s and 1950s. ...

Born: December 9, 1922
Died: October 11, 1991 (age 68)

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Filmography

Known For

Sanford and Son Fred G. Sanford / Self (1972-1977)
Harlem Nights Bennie Wilson (1989)
Cotton Comes to Harlem Uncle Budd / Booker Washington Sims (1970)
Known For

Grady Fred G. Sanford (1975-1976)
Actor

The Royal Family Alfonso Royal (1991)
Harlem Nights Bennie Wilson (1989)
Ghost of a Chance Ivory Clay (1987)
The Redd Foxx Show Al Hughes (1986)
Sanford Fred G. Sanford (1980-1981)
My Buddy Woodrow 'Buddy' Johnson (1979)
The Krofft Comedy Hour Stewardess (1978)
Redd Foxx (1977)
The Brady Bunch Variety Hour Redd Foxx (1977)
Sanford and Son Fred G. Sanford (1972-1977)
Norman... Is That You? Ben Chambers (1976)
Grady Fred G. Sanford (1975)
Cotton Comes to Harlem Uncle Budd / Booker Washington Sims (1970)
Valentine's Day Smoking Movie Patron (1964)
Actor

All the Fine Young Cannibals Redd, Piano Player at Rose's (1960)
Soundtrack

Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017-2018)
Redd Foxx: Video in a Plain Brown Wrapper (1983)
Sanford (1980-1981)
Sanford and Son (1972-1977)
Soundtrack

Cher (1975)
Writer

The Redd Foxx Show (1986)
Redd Foxx: Video in a Plain Brown Wrapper (1983)
On Location: Redd Foxx (1978)
Grady (1975-1976)
Writer

Sanford and Son (1975-1976)
Producer

Redd Foxx: Video in a Plain Brown Wrapper (1983)
My Buddy (1979)
Producer

Redd Foxx (1977)
Archive footage

The Very Very Best of the 70s (2019)
The Apollo (2019)
The History of Comedy (2017)
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016)
Unsung Hollywood (2015)
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013)
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (2009)
Pioneers of Television (2008)
Video on Trial (2006)
Live from New York: The First 5 Years of Saturday Night Live (2005)
Inside Deep Throat (2005)
BET Comedy Awards (2004)
100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time (2004)
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years (2004)
America's Favorite Funnyman (2002)
Inside TV Land (2002)
E! True Hollywood Story (2001)
Laugh? I Thought I'd Die! (1999)
Classic Stand-Up Comedy of Television (1996)
Bob Hope's Bag Full of Christmas Memories (1993)
Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame (1993)
Mo' Funny: Black Comedy in America (1993)
The Royal Family (1991)
Bob Hope's Overseas Christmas Tours: Around the World with the Troops - 1941-1972 (1980)
The 31st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1979)
Bob Hope's World of Comedy (1976)
Archive footage

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1975)
Texaco Presents: A Quarter Century of Bob Hope on Television (1975)
Miscellaneous Crew

The Royal Family (1991)
The Redd Foxx Show (1986)

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Awards

Did You Know

Trivia

Was friends with Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, and Flip Wilson.

Fred was a funny kid, and I got a lot of humor from him. For a while, we were in a Catholic school up in Milwaukee, and Fred used to get laughs pulling an electric iron around the floor, like dragging a dog on a leash. Every day he had a new thing ...