Skip to main content

Redd Foxx

    Black and white photo portrait of Redd Foxx in 1966. Foxx has closely cropped hair, a high forehead, and a thin pencil moustache. He is tight-lipped with a playful look on his face, looking askance at the camera. He wears a white jacket, with dark pinstripes, and a dark tie.

    The stage and nightclub comedian Redd Foxx, star of the popular 1970s television comedy “Sanford and Son.” In his autobiography, Malcolm glowingly described his speakeasy buddy as “the funniest dishwasher in the world.” Foxx’s moniker was “Chicago Red,” which distinguished him from Malcom’s “Detroit Red.”

    1966
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Attribution/Credit

    Coast Artists Inc. (management); photographer: John E. Reed, Hollywood, via “Redd Foxx, Wikipedia; Malcom X quote from The Autobiography of Malcolm X as Told to Alex Haley (New York: Ballentine Books Market Edition, 2015), 99