Every Disney Hero Has a Voice
Atlantis: The Lost Empire ~ Milo James Thatch
Michael J. Fox
June 9th, 1961
Michael J. Fox, OC (born Michael Andrew Fox;
June 9, 1961) is a Canadian American actor, author, producer, activist and voice-over
artist. With a film and television career spanning from the late 1970s, Fox's
roles have included Marty McFly from the Back to the Future trilogy
(1985–1990); Alex P. Keaton from Family Ties (1982–1989) for which he
won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; Mike Flaherty from Spin City
(1996–2000), for which he won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, and two Screen
Actors Guild Awards; and Private Max Eriksson in the Brian DePalma film Casualties
of War.
Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991, and
disclosed his condition to the public in 1998. Fox semiretired from acting in
2000 as the symptoms of his disease worsened. He has since become an activist
for research toward finding a cure. This led him to create the Michael J. Fox
Foundation, and on March 5, 2010, Sweden's Karolinska Institutet gave him a Honoris
causa doctorate for his work in advocating a cure for Parkinson's disease.
Since 2000 Fox has mainly worked as a voice-over actor in
films such as Stuart Little and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and
taken guest TV roles such as in Boston Legal, The Good Wife, Scrubs,
Curb Your Enthusiasm and Rescue Me. He has also released three
books, Lucky Man: A Memoir (2002); Always Looking Up: The Adventures
of an Incurable Optimist (2009); and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned (2010). He was inducted
as an Officer of the Order of Canada on May 27, 2011, for his outreach and
fundraising work.
Early life
Michael Andrew Fox was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
the son of Phyllis (née Piper), an actress and payroll clerk; and William Fox,
a police officer and member of the Canadian Forces. Fox's family
lived in various cities and towns across Canada because of his father's career.
The family finally moved to the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby, British Columbia,
when his father retired in 1971. His father died on January 6, 1990, from a heart
attack. Fox attended Burnaby Central Secondary School, and now has a theatre
named after him in Burnaby South Secondary.
Fox starred in the Canadian television series Leo and
Me at the age of fifteen, and in 1979, moved to Los Angeles to pursue an
acting career at the age of eighteen. Shortly after his marriage, he decided to
move back to Vancouver. Fox is one of four members of the Leo and Me
cast and crew who eventually developed Parkinson's disease in mid-life, an
unusually high number that led to some investigation as to whether an
environmental factor may have played a role.
Fox was discovered by producer Ronald Shedlo and made his
American television debut in the television movie Letters from Frank,
credited under the name "Michael Fox". He intended to continue to use
the name, but when he registered with the Screen Actors Guild, which does not
allow duplicate registration names to avoid credit ambiguities, he discovered
that Michael Fox, a veteran character actor, was already registered under the
name. As he explained in his autobiography, Lucky Man: A Memoir, and in
interviews, he needed to come up with a different name. He did not like the
sound of "Andrew" or "Andy" Fox, so he decided to adopt a
new middle initial and settled on "J", as a homage to actor Michael
J. Pollard.
Acting career
Early career
Fox's first feature film roles were in Midnight
Madness (1980) and Class of 1984 (1982), credited in both as Michael
Fox. Shortly afterward, he began playing "Young Republican" Alex P.
Keaton in the show Family Ties which aired on NBC for seven seasons,
from 1982 to 1989. Fox received the role only after Matthew Broderick was
unavailable. Family Ties had been sold to the television network using
the pitch "hip parents, square kids," with the parents originally
intended to be the main characters. However, the positive reaction to Fox's
performance led to his character's becoming the focus of the show following the
fourth episode. At its peak, the audience for Family Ties drew one-third
of America's households every week. Fox won three Emmy awards for Family
Ties, in 1986, 1987 and 1988. He also won a Golden Globe Award in 1989.
Brandon Tartikoff, one of the show's producers, felt that
Fox was too short in relation to the actors playing his parents, and tried to
have him replaced. Tartikoff reportedly said that "this is not the kind of
face you'll ever find on a lunch-box". After his later successes, Fox
presented Tartikoff with a custom-made lunch-box with the inscription "To
Brandon, this is for you to put your crow in. Love and Kisses, Michael J.
Fox". Tartikoff kept the lunch-box in his office for the rest of his NBC
career.
While filming Family Ties, Fox met his future
wife, Tracy Pollan, when she portrayed his girlfriend, Ellen. When Fox left the
TV series Spin City, his final episodes made numerous allusions to Family
Ties: Michael Gross (who played Alex's father Steven) portrays Mike
Flaherty's (Fox's) therapist, and there is a reference to an off-screen
character named "Mallory". Also, when Flaherty becomes an
environmental lobbyist in Washington D.C., he meets a conservative senator from
Ohio named Alex P. Keaton, and in one episode Meredith Baxter played Mike's
mother.
Back to the Future trilogy
Back to the Future tells the story of Marty
McFly (Fox), a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time from 1985 to
1955. He meets his parents in high school, accidentally attracting his mother's
romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by causing his
parents to fall in love, while finding a way to return to 1985. Robert Zemeckis,
the director, originally wanted Fox to play Marty, but Gary David Goldberg the
creator of Family Ties, which Fox was working on at the time, refused to
allow Zemeckis to even approach Fox as he felt that as Meredith Baxter was on
maternity leave at the time, Fox's character Alex Keaton was needed to carry
the show in her absence. Eric Stoltz was cast and was already filming Back
to the Future, but Zemeckis felt that Stoltz was not giving the right type
of performance for the humor involved. Zemeckis quickly replaced Stoltz with
Fox whose schedule was now more open with the return of Meredith Baxter. During
filming, Fox would rehearse for Family Ties from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m, then
rush to the Back to the Future set where he would rehearse and shoot
until 2:30 a.m. This schedule lasted for two full months. Back to the Future
was both a commercial and critical success. The film spent 8 consecutive
weekends as the number-one grossing movie at the US box office in 1985, and
eventually earned a worldwide total of $381.11 million. Variety
applauded the performances, arguing Fox and his co-star Christopher Lloyd
imbued Marty and Doc Brown's friendship with a quality reminiscent of King
Arthur and Merlin. Two sequels, Back to the Future Part II and Back
to the Future Part III, were released in 1989 and 1990, respectively.
Mid-career
During and immediately after the Back to the Future
trilogy, Fox starred in Teen Wolf (1985), Light of Day
(1987), The Secret of My Success (1987), Bright Lights, Big City
(1988) and Casualties of War (1989).
In The Secret of My Success, Fox played a recent
graduate from Kansas State University who moves to New York City where he has
to deal with the downs and ups of the business world. The film was successful
at the box office, taking $110 million worldwide. Roger Ebert in The Chicago
Sun Times wrote; "Fox provides a fairly desperate center for the film.
It could not have been much fun for him to follow the movie's arbitrary shifts
of mood, from sitcom to slapstick, from sex farce to boardroom brawls."
In Bright Lights, Big City, Fox played a
fact-checker for a New York magazine, who spends his nights partying with
alcohol and drugs. The film received mixed reviews, with Hal Hinson in The
Washington Post criticizing Fox by claiming that "he was the wrong
actor for the job". Meanwhile Roger Ebert praised the actor's performance:
"Fox is very good in the central role (he has a long drunken monologue
that is the best thing he has ever done in a movie)". During the shooting
of Bright Lights, Big City, Michael was reunited with his on-screen
girlfriend Tracy Pollan from Family Ties.
Fox then starred in Casualties of War, a war drama
about the Vietnam War, alongside Sean Penn. Casualties of War was not a
box office hit, but Fox, playing a Private serving in Vietnam, received good
reviews for his performance. Don Willmott on film critic’s website wrote;
"Fox, only one year beyond his Family Ties sitcom silliness, rises
to the challenges of acting as the film's moral voice and sharing scenes with
the always intimidating Penn."
In 1991, he starred in Doc Hollywood, a romantic
comedy about a talented medical doctor who decides to become a plastic surgeon.
While relocating from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles, California, he winds up
as a doctor in a small southern town. Michael Caton-Jones, from Time Out,
described Fox in the film as "at his frenetic best". The Hard Way
was also released in 1991, with Fox playing an undercover actor learning from
police officer James Woods. Between 1992 and 1996, he continued making several
films, such as For Love or Money (1993), Life With Mikey (1993)
and Greedy (1994). Fox then played small supporting roles in political
drama The American President (1995) and comedy Mars Attacks!
(1996).
His last major film role was in The Frighteners
(1996). The Frighteners tells the story of Frank Bannister (Fox), an
architect who develops psychic abilities allowing him to see, hear, and
communicate with ghosts. After losing his wife, he uses his new abilities by
cheating customers out of money for his "ghost hunting" business.
However, a mass murderer comes back from Hell, prompting Frank to investigate
the supernatural presence. Fox's performance received critical praise, Kenneth
Turan in The Los Angeles Times wrote; "The film's actors are
equally pleasing. Both Fox, in his most successful starring role in some time,
and Alvarado, who looks rather like Andie MacDowell here, have no difficulty
getting into the manic spirit of things."
Fox has also done voice-over work providing the voice of
Stuart Little in the Stuart Little movie and its sequel, both of which
were based on the popular book by E. B. White. He also voiced the American
Bulldog Chance in Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey and its sequel Homeward
Bound II: Lost in San Francisco, as well as Milo Thatch in Atlantis: The
Lost Empire.
Spin City and later
career
Spin City ran from 1996 to 2002 on American
television network channel ABC. The show was based on a fictional local
government running New York City, originally starring Fox as Mike Flaherty, a Fordham
Law School graduate serving as the Deputy Mayor of New York. Fox won an Emmy
award for Spin City in 2000, three Golden Globe Awards in 1998, 1999 and
2000 and two Screen Actors Guild Awards in 1999 and 2000. During the third
season of Spin City, Fox made the announcement to the cast and crew of
the show that he had Parkinson's Disease. During the fourth season, he
announced his retirement from the show to focus on spending more time with his
family. He announced that he planned to continue to act and would make guest appearances
on Spin City (he made three more appearances on the show during the
final season). After leaving the show, he was replaced by Charlie Sheen, who
portrayed the character Charlie Crawford. Altogether, 145 episodes were
produced. Fox also served as an executive producer during his time on the show,
alongside co-creators Bill Lawrence and Gary David Goldberg.
In 2004, Fox guest starred in two episodes of the
comedy-drama Scrubs as Dr. Kevin Casey, a surgeon with severe obsessive-compulsive
disorder. The series was created by Spin City creator Bill Lawrence. In
2006, he appeared in four episodes of Boston Legal as a lung cancer
patient. The producers brought him back in a recurring role for Season three,
beginning with the season premiere. Fox was nominated for an Emmy Award for
best guest appearance. In 2009, he appeared in five episodes of the television
series Rescue Me which earned him an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in
a Drama Series. Since 2000 Fox has released three books, Lucky Man: A Memoir
(2002), Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
(2009) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns
and Lessons Learned (2010). In 2010, Fox returned to television as a guest
star in the US drama The Good Wife and has since appeared in four more
episodes as rival attorney Louis Canning.
He made an appearance at the 2010 Winter Olympics closing
ceremony in Vancouver, Canada, and delivered comedic monologues, along with William
Shatner and Catherine O'Hara, in the "I am Canadian" part of the
show.
Along with Tatjana Patitz, Fox appears in the 2011 Carl
Zeiss AG calendar, photographed by Bryan Adams in New York City in the summer
of 2010.
Despite a soundalike, A.J Locascio, voicing his character
of Marty McFly in the 2011 Back to the Future episodic adventure game,
Fox lent his likeness to the in-game version of McFly alongside Christopher
Lloyd. Fox makes a special guest appearance in the final episode of the series
as an elder version of Marty, as well as his great-grandfather Willie McFly.
In 2011, Fox was featured as himself in the eighth season
of the Larry David vehicle, Curb Your Enthusiasm. David's character
(also himself) becomes a temporary resident of the New York City apartment
building that Fox resides in and a conflict arises between the two, whereby
David believes that Fox is using his condition (Parkinson's disease) as a
manipulative tool.
On August 20, 2012, NBC announced that Fox will star in a
new comedy series, loosely based on his life. It was granted a 22-episode
commitment from the network and is set to premiere in the fall of 2013.
Personal life
Fox married actress Tracy Pollan on July 16, 1988, at
West Mountain Inn in Arlington, Vermont. The couple have four children: Sam
Michael (born May 30, 1989), twins Aquinnah Kathleen and Schuyler Frances (born
February 15, 1995), and Esmé Annabelle (born November 3, 2001). Fox holds dual
Canadian-U.S. citizenship. On February 28, 2010, Fox provided a light-hearted
segment during the 2010 Winter Olympics' closing ceremony in Vancouver, Canada,
wherein he expressed how proud he is to be Canadian. On June 4, 2010, the City
of Burnaby, British Columbia honoured Fox by granting him the Freedom of the
City.
Illness and activism
Fox started displaying symptoms of early-onset Parkinson's
disease in 1990 while shooting the movie Doc Hollywood, although he was
not properly diagnosed until the next year. After his diagnosis, Fox began
drinking more heavily than in the past; however, he sought help and stopped
drinking altogether. In 1998, he decided to go public with his condition, and
since then he has been a strong advocate of Parkinson's disease research. His
foundation, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, was created to help advance every
promising research path to curing Parkinson's disease, including embryonic stem
cell studies.
Fox manages the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease with
the drug Sinemet, and he also had a thalamotomy in 1998.
His first book, Lucky Man, focused on how, after
seven years of denial of the disease, he set up the Michael J Fox Foundation,
stopped drinking and began to be an advocate for Parkinson's disease sufferers.
In Lucky Man, Fox wrote that he did not take his
medication prior to his testimony before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
in 1998;
I had
made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication.
It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects
of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well
as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the
transformation must have been startling
Michael J. Fox, Lucky
Man
In an interview with NPR in April 2002, Fox explained
what he does when he becomes symptomatic during an interview;
Well,
actually, I've been erring on the side of caution — I think 'erring' is
actually the right word — in that I've been medicating perhaps too much, in the
sense [that] ... the symptoms ... people see in some of these interviews that
[I] have been on are actually dyskinesia, which is a reaction to the
medication. Because if I were purely symptomatic with Parkinson's symptoms, a
lot of times speaking is difficult. There's a kind of a cluttering of speech
and it's very difficult to sit still, to sit in one place. You know, the
symptoms are different, so I'd rather kind of suffer the symptoms of
dyskinesia... this kind of weaving and this kind of continuous thing is much
preferable, actually, than pure Parkinson's symptoms. So that's what I
generally do... I haven't had any, you know, problems with pure Parkinson's
symptoms in any of these interviews, because I'll tend to just make sure that I
have enough Sinemet in my system and, in some cases, too much. But to me, it's
preferable. It's not representative of what I'm like in my everyday life. I get
a lot of people with Parkinson's coming up to me saying, "You take too much medication." I say, Well, you sit across
from Larry King and see if you want to tempt it.
Interview,
30 April 2002, Fresh Air, NPR
In 2006, Fox starred in a campaign ad for then-Missouri
State Auditor Claire McCaskill (D) in her 2006 Senate campaign against
incumbent Jim Talent (R), expressing her support for stem cell research. In the
ad, he visibly showed the effects of his Parkinson's disease;
As
you might know, I care deeply about stem cell research. In Missouri, you can
elect Claire McCaskill, who shares my hope for cures. Unfortunately, Senator
Jim Talent opposes expanding stem cell research. Senator Talent even wanted to
criminalize the science that gives us the chance for hope. They say all
politics is local, but that's not always the case. What you do in Missouri
matters to millions of Americans, Americans like me.
Michael J. Fox, Campaign
Advertisement for Claire McCaskill
The New York Times called it "one
of the most powerful and talked about political advertisements in years"
and polls indicated that the commercial had a measurable impact on the way
voters voted, in an election that McCaskill won. His second book, Always
Looking Up: The Adventures Of An Incurable Optimist, describes his life
between 1999 and 2009, with much of the book centered on how Fox got into
campaigning for stem-cell research. On March 31, 2009, Fox appeared on The
Oprah Winfrey Show with Dr. Oz to publicly discuss his condition as well as
his book, his family and his prime-time special which aired May 7, 2009 (Michael
J. Fox: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist).
His work led him to be named one of the 100 people
"whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world" in
2007 by Time magazine. On March 5, 2010, Fox received an honorary doctorate in
medicine from Karolinska Institutet for his contributions to research in
Parkinson's disease. He also has received an honorary doctor of laws from the University
of British Columbia.
On May 31, 2012, he received an honorary degree of Doctor
of Laws from the Justice Institute of British Columbia to recognize his
accomplishments as a performer as well as his commitment to raising research
funding and awareness for Parkinson's disease. Fox recalled performing in
role-playing simulations as part of police recruit training exercises at the
Institute early in his career.
Filmography
Actor
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Film
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Year
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Film
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Role
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Notes
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1980
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Midnight
Madness
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Scott Larson
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1982
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Class of 1984
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Arthur
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1985
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Teen Wolf
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Scott Howard
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Back To The
Future
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Marty McFly
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1987
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Light of Day
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Joe Rasnick
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The Secret of My Success
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Brantley
Foster/Carlton Whitfield
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1988
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Bright
Lights, Big City
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Jamie Conway
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1989
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Casualties of
War
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PFC. Eriksson
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Back to the
Future Part II
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Marty McFly,
Marty McFly Jr, Marlene McFly
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1990
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Back to the
Future Part III
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Marty McFly, Seamus
McFly
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1991
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The Hard Way
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Nick Lang/Ray
Casanov
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Doc Hollywood
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Dr. Benjamin
Stone
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1993
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Homeward
Bound: The Incredible Journey
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Chance
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Voice only
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Life with
Mikey
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Michael
"Mikey" Chapman
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For Love or
Money (a.k.a The Concierge)
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Doug Ireland
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1994
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Where the
Rivers Flow North
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Clayton Farnsworth
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Greedy
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Daniel McTeague
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1995
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Blue in the
Face
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Pete Maloney
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Coldblooded
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Tim Alexander
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Also Producer
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The American President
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Lewis Rothschild
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1996
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Homeward
Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
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Chance
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Voice only
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The Frighteners
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Frank Bannister
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Mars Attacks!
|
Jason Stone
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1999
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Stuart Little
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Stuart Little
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Voice only
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2001
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Atlantis: The
Lost Empire
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Milo James
Thatch
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Voice only
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2002
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Interstate 60
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Mr. Baker
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Stuart Little
2
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Stuart Little
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Voice only
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2006
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Stuart Little
3: Call of the Wild
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Stuart Little
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Voice only
Direct-to-video |
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Television
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Year
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Title
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Role
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Notes
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1977
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The Magic Lie
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Episode:
"The Master"
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1979
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Letters from
Frank
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Ricky
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CBS television
film
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Lou Grant
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Paul Stone
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Episode:
"Kids"
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1980
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Palmerstown,
U.S.A.
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Willy-Joe Hall
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Family
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Richard Topol
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Episode:
"Such a Fine Line"
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Trouble in
High Timber Country
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Thomas Elston
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ABC television
film
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1981
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Trapper John,
M.D.
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Elliot
Schweitzer
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Episode: Brain
Child
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Leo and Me
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Jamie
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Produced in
1976; was not televised on CBC, until 1981
Credited as "Mike Fox" |
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1982–1989
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Family Ties
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Alex P. Keaton
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1983
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The Love Boat
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Episode: "I
Like to Be in America..."
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High School
U.S.A.
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Jay-Jay Manners
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NBC television
film/pilot
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1984
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Night Court
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Eddie Simms
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Episode:
"Santa Goes Downtown"
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The Homemade Comedy Special
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Host
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NBC television
special
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1985
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Poison Ivy
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Dennis Baxter
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NBC television
film
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1986
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David
Letterman's 2nd Annual Holiday Film Festival
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NBC television
special
Segment: The Iceman Hummeth |
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1988
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Mickey's 60th
Birthday
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Alex P. Keaton
(a flashback clip)
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Television
special
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1990
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Sex, Buys
& Advertising
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Television special
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1991
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Saturday
Night Live
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Host
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Episode:
"Michael J. Fox/The Black Crowes"
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Tales from
the Crypt
|
Prosecutor
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Episode:
"The Trap"
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1994
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Don't Drink
the Water
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Axel Magee
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ABC television
film
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1996–2001
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Spin City
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Mike Flaherty
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Seasons 1 – 4
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2002
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Clone High
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Gandhi's
Remaining Kidney
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Voice only
"Escape to Beer Mountain: A Rope of Sand" |
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2004
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Scrubs
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Dr. Kevin Casey
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Episode:
"My Catalyst"
Episode: "My Porcelain God" |
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2006
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Boston Legal
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Daniel Post
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2009
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Rescue Me
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Dwight
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2010
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The Colbert Report
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Himself
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2010–2012
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The Good Wife
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Louis Canning
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Episode:
"Poisoned Pill"
Episode: "Real Deal" Episode: "Wrongful Termination" Episode: "Parenting Made Easy" Episode: "Gloves Come Off" |
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2011
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Ace of Cakes
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Himself
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Curb Your
Enthusiasm
|
Himself
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Episode:
"Larry vs. Michael J. Fox"
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Phineas and
Ferb
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Michael
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Episode:
"The Curse of Candace"
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Video games
Back to the Future: The Game (2011):
Willie McFly, Future Marty McFly – Voice only, video game, Episode 5:
"Outatime"
Producer
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Year
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Title
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Notes
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1995
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Coldblooded
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Producer
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1996–2000
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Spin City
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Executive
producer
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1999
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Anna Says
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Executive
producer
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2002
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Otherwise
Engaged
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Executive
producer
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2003
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Hench at Home
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Executive
producer
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Awards and nominations
Canada's
Walk of Fame- 2000: Inducted,
Canada's Walk of Fame
- 2002:
Star on the Walk of Fame – 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
- 1985:
Nominated, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Family
Ties
- 1986: Won,
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Family Ties
- 1987: Won,
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Family Ties
- 1988: Won,
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Family Ties
- 1989:
Nominated, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Family Ties
- 1997:
Nominated, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Spin City
- 1998:
Nominated, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Spin City
- 1999:
Nominated, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Spin City
- 2000: Won,
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Spin City
- 2006:
Nominated, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series – Boston Legal
- 2009: Won,
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series – Rescue Me
- 2011:
Nominated, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series- The Good Wife
- 2012:
Pending, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series- Curb Your
Enthusiasm
- 2012:
Pending, Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series- The Good Wife
- 1986:
Nominated, Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series — Comedy/Musical – Family
Ties
- 1986:
Nominated, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture —
Comedy/Musical – Back to the Future
- 1987:
Nominated, Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series — Comedy/Musical – Family
Ties
- 1989: Won,
Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series — Comedy/Musical – Family
Ties
- 1997:
Nominated, Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series — Comedy/Musical – Spin
City
- 1998: Won,
Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series — Comedy/Musical – Spin
City
- 1999: Won,
Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series — Comedy/Musical – Spin
City
- 2000: Won,
Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series — Comedy/Musical – Spin
City
- 1999: Won,
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series – Spin City
- 2000: Won,
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series – Spin City
- 1985: Won,
Best Actor – Back to the Future
- 1997: Won,
Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series
- 2012:
Nominated, Favorite TV Guest Star - The Good Wife
- 1997:
Nominated, Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Comedy or
Musical – Spin City
- 1998:
Nominated, Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Comedy or
Musical – Spin City
- 1999:
Nominated, Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Comedy or
Musical – Spin City
- 2008:
Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, New York University
- 2008:
Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, University of British Columbia
- 2010:
Honoris causa doctorate, Karolinska Institutet
- 2012: Doctor
of Laws, honoris causa, Justice Institute of British Columbia
- 2010: Won,
Best Spoken Word Album – Always Looking Up: Adventures of An Incurable
Optimist
- 2009: Awarded
"Most Influential Canadian Expat", Canadian Expat Association
- 2011: Goldene
Kamera für Lebenswerk (Lifetime Achievement Award), German film and TV
award.
Books
- Fox, Michael J. (2002). Lucky Man: A Memoir.
New York: Hyperion. ISBN 978-0-7868-6764-6. http://books.google.com/books?id=lr_6bduXfpAC&dq=michael+j+fox
- Fox, Michael J. (2009). Always Looking Up: The
adventures of an Incurable Optimist. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 978-1-4013-0338-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=vIQLPwAACAAJ&dq=michael%20j%20fox
- Fox, Michael J. (2010). A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned. New York:
Hyperion. ISBN 978-1-4013-2386-8
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