Fox Harris

{{Infobox person |name=Fox Harris |birth_name= |birth_date=May 3, 1936 |birth_place=Pennsylvania, United States |death_date={{death date and age|1988|12|27|1936|5|3}} |death_place=Century City, California, United States |occupation=Actor }}

'''Fox Harris''' (May 3, 1936 – December 27, 1988) was an American actor<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|title=Fox Harris|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/30618/Fox-Harris/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150605125740/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/30618/Fox-Harris/biography|url-status=dead|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Sandra Brennan|date=2015|archive-date=2015-06-05}}</ref> known for such films as ''Repo Man'',<ref name=NYT2>{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=Repo Man (1984) SCREEN: 'REPO MAN,' CARS AND CALIFORNIA|first=Vincent|last=Canby|authorlink=Vincent Canby|date=July 6, 1984|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D07E2DD153BF935A35754C0A962948260}}</ref> ''Sid and Nancy'',<ref name=NYT/> ''Straight to Hell'',<ref name=NYT/> ''Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers'',<ref name=NYT/> ''The Underachievers''<ref name=NYT/> and ''Dr. Caligari''.<ref name=NYT/>

Harris worked frequently with film directors Alex Cox<ref name=NYT/> and Fred Olen Ray.<ref name=NYT/>

Harris appeared in three of Cox's films, most notably in ''Repo Man'' as the mad scientist J. Frank Parnell. Cox first met Harris when Cox was working as an unpaid caretaker at the Actors Studio in Hollywood, saying that "The only actor who was friendly was Fox Harris: He put on no airs, treated us as if we were human, and didn’t steal our food." He described Harris as "a generous, exciting actor" who "became the focus of any scene he was in", but also a "self-made character" who had run-ins with the law in his youth, and did not tell Cox that he could not drive even after being cast in ''Repo Man'' as a character who drives a Chevy Malibu, a fact Cox only learned when Harris drove the car straight into a gas pump.<ref name="Cox2008">{{cite book | last=Cox | first=Alex | title=X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker | publisher=Soft Skull Press | publication-place=Brooklyn | date=2008 | isbn=1-59376-193-7 | page=}}</ref>

Harris died of lung cancer in 1988 at age 52 in Century City, California.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}} In his memoir ''X Films'', Cox says that Harris had been diagnosed with AIDS around 1987, shortly before filming ''Walker''.<ref name="Cox2008"/>

==Partial filmography== *''Forbidden World'' (1982) — Cal Timbergen *''Hammett'' (1982) — Frank the News Vendor *''Human Highway'' (1982) — Sheik *''My Favorite Year'' (1982) — Curt / Featured Player *''Lookin' to Get Out'' (1982) — Harvey, The Elevator Operator *''Rock 'n' Roll Hotel'' (1983) *''Repo Man'' (1984) — J. Frank Parnell *''Sid and Nancy'' (1986) — Old Stain *''Armed Response'' (1986) — Club Owner *''Straight to Hell'' (1987) — Kim Blousson *''Evil Spawn'' (1987) — Harry *''Walker'' (1987) — District Attorney *''The Underachievers'' (1987) — Margrave *''Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers'' (1988) — Hermie *''Deep Space'' (1988) — Prof. Whately *''Warlords'' (1988) — Colonel Cox *''Terminal Force'' (1989) — Hendrix *''Mutant on the Bounty'' (1989) — Captain Ferris *''Dr. Caligari'' (1989) — Dr. Avol *''Terror Eyes'' (1989) — Ticket Man *''Alienator'' (1990) — Burt *''Nerds of a Feather'' (1990) — Russian Scientist

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0289051}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harris, Fox}} Category:1936 births Category:1988 deaths Category:American male film actors Category:American male television actors Category:Male actors from Pennsylvania Category:20th-century American male actors